Lead Developer, GOV.UK App Back-end Services

3 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Government Digital Service Full time

Job summary

The Government Digital Service (GDS) exists to make the user experience of the government simple, consistent and welcoming for everyone. To do this, GDS builds, iterates and maintains digital tools and platforms that are part of everyday life in the UK; platforms like - the online home of government information and services. We also work with departments to identify patterns, share learning and create change to make government more efficient.

is now the established digital interface between government and the public. It�s well used - with over 28 billion page views since go-live - and is consistently among the most-visited websites in the country. It's extremely well known according to YouGov, and the signature design and logo is instantly recognisable as the trusted source of government information and services. has become truly essential to living, working and studying in the UK.

Our teams are organised around delivering on our priorities, which are to:

grow to reach people when and where they need government informationmake more proactive in helping peopleevolve to match user expectations for new technologies

We exist to make it simple for everyone to interact with the government, and we're . A key part of the strategy is in the development of the first mobile app, creating a personalised and proactive way to support users. The delivery of the App is underway, with a growing team focussed on version 1.� This role is an exciting and rare opportunity to join the App programme at an early stage and shape the direction of development.�

You can read more about our work on the .� To learn more about life at GDS and for some tips on the application process, take a look at our .

Job description

As a Lead Developer on �s App programme, you'll use your engineering skills and experience to support �s drive into the mobile app domain.

You�ll be working within the App programme of work on a day to day basis, as well as working with other senior technologists as part of the Senior Tech team. You will provide technical leadership, set technical direction, build a team and lead implementation.� Expect a mixture of hands-on technical work, engineering design and technical strategy. The focus for this role will be to work alongside the lead mobile developer in order to define, develop and release back-end services to support the launch of the mobile app.

As a Lead Developer you�ll:

lead the design and development of new cloud-based back-end services and infrastructure to support service integration and personalisation for the mobile appstrengthen engineering culture in your area, supporting continuous improvement, advocating for good practices, good design and code quality, removing toil and drag factorshelp establish a team of engineers who specialise in building high-scale cloud-native services to support the resilience and scale of the mobile client appswork with other discipline leads and senior management to proactively plan technical delivery work, making sure to balance long term engineering sustainability with short term delivery pressures, advocating for technical quality and bringing practical considerations to high level designshelp establish and participate in a new app team out of hours rota to support our operational servicesplan and manage a small number of engineering staff within your area, recruiting civil servants and interim/contractor technologistswork with cyber security and other security colleagues to deliver secure and operational services

Person specification

We�re interested in people who:

have software development experience with �have experience building serverless (both compute and databases) on AWS��have experience developing and operating high scale, high performance APIs focused on high volume applicationshave strong experience in AWS security best practices�have experience of modern software development approaches such as automated testing, test-driven development, continuous integration and continuous deliveryhave experience of leading software development work in multi-disciplinary agile environmentsare experienced in line management, helping colleagues with their career development and coaching more junior staff membersunderstand the legal requirements of handling personal and sensitive data and can translate those into technical solutions

Benefits

The benefits of working at GDS

There are many benefits of working at GDS, including:

flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hoursa Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day each year up to a maximum of 30 daysan extra day off for The King�s birthdayan in-year bonus scheme to recognise high performancecareer progression and coaching, including a training budget for personal developmentpaid volunteering leavea focus on wellbeing with access to an employee assistance programmejob satisfaction from making government services easier to use and more inclusive for people across the UKadvances on pay, including for travel season ticketsdeath in service benefitscycle to work scheme and facilitiesaccess to an employee discounts scheme10 learning days per yearvolunteering opportunities (5 special leave days per year)access to a suite of learning activities through Civil Service learning

GDS offers hybrid working for all employees. This means that everyone does some working from home and also spends some time in their local office. You�ll agree to your hybrid working arrangement with your line manager in line with your preferences and business needs.

Any move to Government Digital Service from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at

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