Software Engineer

Role

Software Engineer (contract, 12 months)

Location

Newcastle or Guildford

Hours

35 per week

Hourly Rate

£70 per hour via Umbrella, inside IR35

Clearance

UK Eyes only project; SC required before starting – active SC on application is preferred

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop high‑quality, readable, scalable and easily maintained code, using Java and related technologies, meeting requirements and coding standards.
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enhance team velocity.
• Contribute to quality assurance by writing unit and automated tests.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines.
• Ensure code is sufficiently documented and share knowledge of solutions implemented.
• Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and daily stand‑ups in a true Agile environment, contributing to agile‑based estimating.
• Work with the scrum team to meet sprint commitments.
• Maintain awareness of potential compliance risks and act with integrity.

Requirements

Essential

• Java
• Cloud services development
• Unit testing

Desirable

• DevSecOps awareness using tools such as Tekton, ArgoCD, SonarQube.
• Red Hat OpenShift container platform or Kubernetes.
• Quarkus framework.
• Front‑end development using Angular.

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