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Senior JavaScript/Node.JS Engineer

2 months ago

Blackpool, United Kingdom Department for Work and Pensions Full time
Our Senior Software Engineers are skilled practitioners and role models for software craft within DWP.

As a skilled practitioner you will work as a leader within one or more multidisciplinary agile delivery teams, Line managing and mentoring other engineers. You will promote software engineering practices and establishing collaborative team cultures that produce world class software solutions.

You will use your skills in software design principles, patterns and paradigms to produce software products used by millions of people.

Focusing on operational stability, robustness, resilience, availability and quality you will be accountable for the code you and your teams produce.

Your experience of containerised microservices deployed into cloud environments will mean you can be effective immediately, with a solid understanding of our most common deployment patterns.

We expect our software engineers to practice TDD and as a Senior Software Engineer you will be highly skilled in the practice and promote its use across the engineering community.

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Person specification

When giving details in your employment history and Personal Statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
  • Lead Criteria : Expert knowledge and extensive experience of modern JavaScript/Node.JS technologies, frameworks and design principles. Capable of leading the production of software solutions of the highest quality.
  • Extensive experience of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) practices and techniques.
  • Knowledge and experience of APIs, RESTful services and Microservice Architectures.
  • Expert knowledge and extensive experience of developing on cloud-based environments like AWS and Azure.
  • Knowledge and experience of SQL and NoSQL database applications such as Postgres, MySQL and MongoDB.
  • Experience and the skills required to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
  • Experience of leading multidisciplinary engineering teams, communicating with stakeholders, driving delivery, ensuring standards, ways of working and building supportive and collaborative culture.

Please note- An initial sift will be conducted using the lead criteria, highlighted in the Person Specification.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact sam.hackett@dwp.gov.uk.

Benefits

Alongside your salary, the Department for Work and Pensions contributes 28.97% towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
  • Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
  • Generous annual leave at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (prorata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
  • Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
  • Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
  • Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 years continuous service.
  • Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
  • An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Womens Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Salary Information

Pay for this role is from 52,412 to 63,517.

The maximum salary for the grade is 63,517, however a Digital Allowance of up to 15,000 per annum is available for exceptional candidates, based on our assessment of your skills and experience.

Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.

Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.

Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the next grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Stage 1: Application

Your application will consist of three parts:

1. A Personal Details application form.

2. Your employment history detailing your responsibilities, skills, accomplishments, plus your qualifications and relevant training. Please copy this information into the box field provided.

3. Personal Statement up to 1000 words. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

When giving details in your employment history and Personal Statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria listed in the Person Specification.

The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and Personal Statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria above.

Please note - An initial sift will be conducted using the lead criteria, highlighted in the Person Specification:

Expert knowledge and extensive experience of modern JavaScript/Node.JS technologies, frameworks and design principles. Capable of leading the production of software solutions of the highest quality.

Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

You will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your Employment History and Personal Statement.

For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital

Important Information
  • You will be asked to complete your employment history any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form.
  • Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
  • If your employment history/Personal Statement contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn.

Stage 2: Coding Test

If you are successful with Stage 1, you will be invited to complete a coding exercise. You will have 7 days to complete this activity. Further information will be given if you are invited to the coding test.

Stage 3: Interview

If youre successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the Essential Criteria listed in the Person Specification.

Interviews will commence from Late September/Early October onwards.

Further information

Find out more about Working for DWP

A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.

Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.

Reasonable Adjustment

At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.

We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the Reasonable Adjustments section in the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if youre deaf, a Language Service Professional.

For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:
  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .