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Staff Engineer — Product Engineering at Civica
About Civica
We’re Civica and we make software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local to state government, to education, to health and care, over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to help provide critical services to over 100 million citizens.
Our aspiration is to be a GovTech champion everywhere we work, supporting the needs of citizens and those that serve them every day. Building on 21 years of continuous growth and success, we're at a pivotal point on our journey to realise that aspiration.
Why You’ll Love This Opportunity
As a Staff Engineer focused on product engineering, you’ll play a foundational role in shaping how we build, scale, and evolve our next-generation technology stack. We're undertaking a major transformation to consolidate dozens of legacy products into a unified technology platform. Working across multiple teams, you will:
- Define engineering practices, architectural direction, and enabling patterns that underpin our unified applications.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineering leaders, and other Staff/Principal Engineers to improve delivery flow, reduce duplication, and ensure long-term maintainability and quality.
- Help drive architectural clarity and delivery alignment across a modern React/Golang-based stack, supporting the transition from legacy systems to a cohesive, modular product suite.
Responsibilities
To succeed in this Staff Engineer role, you will:
- Define and evolve product engineering practices, tooling, and shared application architecture patterns.
- Lead technical discovery, prototyping, and architectural alignment across teams contributing to our new platform.
- Provide hands-on support to unblock teams, improve implementation quality, and resolve cross-team technical challenges.
- Collaborate with engineering managers and product leads to shape delivery flow, define team responsibilities, and establish ownership boundaries.
- Act as a mentor and technical coach to engineers across the organisation.
- Contribute to long-term architectural decisions that optimise for modularity, resilience, and operability.
- Facilitate healthy architectural debate, consensus-building, and design governance.
- Navigate ambiguity and help co-create the organisation’s path toward consolidated, high-quality delivery.
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Essential Requirements
To excel in this role, you’ll need:
- Technical depth and breadth: Strong expertise in building, scaling, and evolving modern web applications—ideally across both front-end (e.g. React) and back-end (e.g. Golang) domains, as well as cloud-native platforms.
- System design & problem-solving: Demonstrated ability to design and evolve architecture in complex, real-world systems.
- Influence & collaboration: Builds trust across teams, facilitates alignment, and helps teams move forward without needing formal authority.
- Delivery orientation: Ability to balance engineering design with delivery constraints and business priorities.
- Organisational thinking: Shapes engineering patterns that scale across teams and time—familiar with enabling or platform team models.
##Nice to Have Experience with:
- Distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
- Modern CI/CD, observability, and quality automation practices.
- Legacy system modernisation, refactoring, or product migration strategies.
- Models like Team Topologies, Domain-Driven Design, or similar for designing software and teams.
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Why You’ll Love Working with Civica
At Civica, we’re passionate about championing technology to improve outcomes for citizens and public sector organisations. We strive to unlock the best version of yourself, help you grow your career, and make a real difference to people and communities.
Here’s how we support you:
Time Off & Work-Life Balance
✔ 25 Days Annual Leave + bank holidays – plus the option to buy up to 10 extra days! ✔ Days of Difference – Up to 3 extra days off for volunteering.
Financial Well-being & Security
✔ Pension Contributions: 5% employer match to support your future. ✔ Income Protection: Up to 75% salary cover for long-term illness. ✔ Life Assurance: 4x salary tax-free lump sum. ✔ Critical Illness Cover: £25,000 lump sum (extendable to dependents).
Health & Perks
✔ Private Medical Insurance: Fast access to private healthcare. ✔ Health Cash Plan: Claim back physio, therapies, and more. ✔ Dental Insurance: Cover for routine & emergency care. ✔ Affinity Groups: Join employee-led communities. ✔ Bounty Bonus: Refer a friend & get rewarded.
Inclusivity & Diversity
We’re committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone feels valued. We believe diverse perspectives drive innovation and excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristic.
If you require any adjustments or accommodations to participate in our recruitment process, please let us know – we’re here to support you.
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