Zaizi
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Job Title: Senior Software Developer
Zaizi is looking for a Senior Software Developer with solid technology skills, but who is also passionate about improving outcomes and the user experience. You'll be reliable in your own deliverables but also curious about and offer innovative ideas to others in a multi-disciplinary team.
Our work culture is inclusive, modern, friendly, and democratic. We look for bright, positive-thinking individuals with a can-do attitude. Our people enjoy challenging themselves to be the best at what they do - if that sounds like you, you'll fit right in!
Requirements
Essential Skills
Ways of Working
- Developing digital solutions delivered to the GDS standard
- Demonstrable experience working on Agile environments
- Demonstrable experience working on product development environments based on observation, experimentation, and user research
- Demonstrable experience working in multi-disciplinary/DevOps teams which include product owner/manager, UX designers, UX researchers, Developers, Platform engineers, etc
- Demonstrable experience working on continuous improvement environments doing multiple releases every week
- Team leadership and mentoring experience
- Integrity / honesty
Reasons to use Rodeo
I’m in my final year doing Economics and I don’t know whether to apply for grad schemes now or do a masters first. What do you think?
Honest answer — it depends on where you want to end up. A lot of top grad schemes (Big 4, civil service, banking) don’t need a masters. Let’s look at the ones you’d be competitive for now, and we can decide if a masters actually adds anything.
Also worth knowing: most autumn 2026 applications are open now. Timing matters more than you think.
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Graduate Consultant — 2026 Scheme
Why you're a good match
StrongYour economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.
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Why you're a good match
You’ve got the grades and the economics background, and your bank internship is exactly the experience this scheme looks for. Apply soon — deadlines close within the month.
Experience fit
Your summer at the bank plus your econometrics coursework map directly to the day-one responsibilities on this scheme — client modelling, market briefings, and deal support.
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Coding and Testing
- Demonstrable experience designing, coding, and debugging Golang based systems
- Good skills in web front end technologies such as HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
- Golang
- Spring Boot
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Atlassian
- Build tools: Maven, Gradle, Ant
- Familiar with source control systems, such as GIT, including branching, merging, etc
- Testing: TDD, unit testing, JUnit, Mockito, Cypress
- Good knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL including data modelling, SQL scripts, store procedures
- Shift to the left: Functional test automation (API testing, UI testing [cucumber, nightwatch])
Nice to Have Skills
- AWS
- Knowledge of Open Source BPMN workflow engines (Camunda, Activiti or Flowable)
- Experience on a front-end javascript framework such as react, angular or vue.js
- RedHat OpenShift for container orchestration
- Knowledge of NCSC's 14 cloud security principles


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Studies show that women and black, Asian and minority ethnic people are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every qualification. So if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to still apply. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role here at Zaizi.
SC Clearance
Zaizi works with UK Central Government departments on a range of projects. To be able to work on our customer projects, employees must be Security Cleared to a standard acceptable to our Government customers. Due to this restriction we can currently only recruit candidates who have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and who have lived in the UK for the last 5+ years continuously.
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