HM Revenue & Customs
Senior Developer (Java)
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
About The Job
Job summary
Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it's really like to work at HMRC.
Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential.
At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.
We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us, and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you.
Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success, and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role.
Have you got a working knowledge of Java? Can you identify, triage and fix defects? Are you great at offering support and mentoring others?
If yes we would like you to be part of our outstanding team within Chief Digital Product Office, Digital Services.
Our purpose is to drive a customer centric approach to transforming services for HMRC Customers. Working closely with business stakeholders, contractors and suppliers - our aim is to drive digital innovation and to re-engineer services aligned to our IT, contractual and sourcing strategies and to deliver significantly improved digital services.
Job Description
You will be a key member of an Agile Scrum Team working across our Digital Application Support Service teams who are responsible for HMRC Self-Assessment digital service, ensuring users are able to get their tax right.
The team support customers, delivering change, enhancement and support for high-volume, business-critical HMRC digital service using Java.
Working as part of a scrum team you will have a key role in designing, building, and maintaining services that have a positive impact on over 12m users across HMRC.
Key Responsibilities Of This Role Include
- Plan and lead development activities supporting legislative changes, service enhancements, maintenance and problem resolution within strict timescales.
- Put users first, translating user needs and user stories into effective technical solutions.
- Develop and maintain deep knowledge of the wider service architecture and support the development of others.
- Operate and support the live services you build, using monitoring and observability tools.
- Contribute to deployment activities and take ownership of production releases.
- Proactively improve service resilience, stability, scalability and maintainability.
- Support and mentor less experienced developers within the team.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
Essential Criteria
Working as part of an agile software delivery team, leading on aspects of development work, providing guidance and setting development direction for more junior members of a team. Demonstrable working experience using Java 8 or newer and Spring Framework to deliver user-centred digital services. Demonstrable experience planning and leading development on related user stories. Experience of DevOps practices such as CI/CD (unit testing, TDD, Jenkins, Git, or similar). Evidence of taking ownership of risks and technical debt and ensuring they're prioritised within the team alongside stakeholders. Problem solving and delivering a range of possible solutions, including through technical work and process improvement. Experience of evaluating data against business rules through rules engines such as Apache KiE - Drools. Operating a live service, using observability tooling such as Kibana, Grafana and Google Tag Manager, managing live incidents within an ITIL Framework. Knowledge of web security best practices, such as OWASP top 10. Experience of working with tools for API, performance, accessibility and security testing.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Desirable Criteria
Working knowledge of the Digital Application Support Services - Self Assessment application. Oracle Certified Professional Qualification. ITIL4 Foundation Qualification or be prepared to obtain it. Flexibility to work outside of normal business hours during Key Business Events. Working knowledge of GOV.UK Service Standard. Holds enhanced security vetting to SC level or be prepared to obtain it. Experience of working alongside Database Administrators (DBAs) to support in the diagnosis and resolution of data problems, sharing best practice on SQL queries.
Further Location Information
Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a 'Further Location Preferences (optional)' field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.
Office closures
For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it's important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.
These Sites Include
Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford
You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Changing and Improving
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
You will be provided a scenario at interview where we would like you to demonstrate your experience and the approach you would take to the problem. You will be asked to talk through your approach and may be asked follow-up questions.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £45,544, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £13,194 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.
We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
- Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
- Family friendly policies.
- Personal support.
- Coaching and development.
To find out more about HMRC benefits and find out what it's really like to work for HMRC hear from our insiders or visit Thinking of joining the Civil Service
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
How To Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A name-blind CV including your job history, previous experiences and full qualification details.
- A 750-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement (max 750 words) should be used to describe your suitability for the advertised role, addressing the key responsibilities and essential criteria as outlined in the person specification part of the advert.
Please complete a separate statement (Max 250 words) for the Desirable Criteria where applicable. This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy-holder where candidates have the same scores at interview.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Sift
Prior to applications being sifted candidates will be asked to complete an additional IKM assessment. Candidates will be sent details of the assessment once the advert has closed. This assessment is a pass or fail and only those who pass will be considered at the sift stage.
In the event of a large number of applications being received, an initial sift may be held on the CV.
At full sift, your CV and your Personal Statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.
Interview
During the panel interview you will be asked behaviour-based and experience-based questions to explore what you are capable of. The experience based questions will be related to both the evidence provided and the targeted approach used, during the demonstration scenario.
Interviews will take place via video link.
Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Please note that circumstances may arise that require the planned interview format to change. We will endeavour to provide you with as much notice of any change as possible.
Eligibility
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form . Mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we may not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, or have withdrawn yourself in error and need your application reinstated whilst the campaign is still live, please contact us via: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk - Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example - 'Please re-open my application - [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]'.
To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Location