UK Home Office
Senior Developer
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Location: Sheffield | Salford | (hybrid)
Salary: £62,732 (National)
Skills allowance of up to £17,668, pending assessment
Advert Close Date: 1st September 2026
🚀 Job summary 🚀
We are looking for people who are passionate about Engineering to join our community led team in Shared Applications Service (SAS). You will work in agile multidisciplinary teams with over 200 engineers in a modern cloud environment using the latest technologies. Our purpose as a team is to bring technical understanding in-house for over 600 Home Office applications.
The Senior Developer is key for our product delivery, you will develop core components of our solutions and help select appropriate technologies. Your subject matter expertise will enable you to operate with greater levels of autonomy and decision making.
You will work to our technical standards writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach, ensuring the code is open as far as possible and can be re-used.
The Senior Developer will be expected to mentor and lead other engineers in technical tasks, as well as support recruitment and assessment activities.
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🔧 Tools and Technologies we use: 🔧
We would encourage applications from candidates with experience or interests in the following technologies:
Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power platform
Frontend: React, JavaScript, Typescript, Angular
Data: PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Mongodb, Apache Cassandra
DevOps: AWS, Kubernetes, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform
AI: Azure ML Studio, Python, Github Copilot, OpenAI
⭐ Essential Skills ⭐
As a Senior Developer, you’ll have a demonstrable experience in:
- Designing, reviewing and maintaining complex software applications, components, modules and documentation. (SWDN)
- Collaborating in designing, coding, testing, documents, amends, and refactoring moderately complex programs/scripts. (PROG)
- Designing test cases and scripts under own direction, mapping back predetermined criteria and reporting testing outcomes. (TEST)
- Providing technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for system tests. (SINT)
- Managing and updating data systems, enabling the availability, integrity of searchability of information which can be utilised by many sources. (DATM)
- Maintaining application support processes, ensuring support requests are dealt with to agreed processes, investigating issues, and reporting findings where applicable. (ASUP)
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Why work for us...🤩
Find out more information at: Benefits - Home Office Careers, but some of the primary ones are:
- A Civil Service Pension with employer contribution rates of £17,992 annually
- In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
- 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
- 8 days of public holidays, plus 1 additional privilege day.
- Flexi-time allowance and flexible working options
Plus so much MORE: https://careers.homeoffice.gov.uk/benefits
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