Role: Back-End Developer
Rate: £500-£550 p/d Inside IR35
Duration - 12 months
Location: Hybrid 2-3 days per week in Corsham
Requirements: We are seeking an experienced Back-End Developer to support the design and delivery of a public-facing government website, developed in line with GDS standards. The role focuses on building secure, scalable, and maintainable back-end services that support user-centred digital services.
You will work as part of a multidisciplinary agile team, collaborating closely with front-end developers, solution architects, content designers, and delivery leads to deliver high quality outcomes for end users.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain back-end services to support a public-sector digital platform
- Develop and enhance search functionality to ensure performant and user-friendly content discovery
- Design and implement a Single Sign-On (SSO) component, integrating securely with existing identity and access management solutions
- Ensure all services meet security, performance, scalability, and accessibility requirements
- Work in line with the GDS Service Manual, supporting iterative, user-centred delivery and continuous improvement
- Collaborate with solution architects and delivery leads to align with agreed technical standards and architecture
- Support CI/CD pipelines and operational monitoring to ensure reliable deployment and service performance
- Work effectively within a highly regulated / public sector environment
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Proven back-end development experience within public sector or highly regulated environments
- Strong experience developing back-end services using Node.js (including Express and express-session)
- Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift for deployment
- Experience using Argo CD for GitOps-based continuous delivery
- Experience implementing pipelines for continuous integration
- Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability, including Grafana
- Experience designing and integrating search services and authentication / SSO solutions
- Experience working within Agile delivery teams
Reasonable Adjustments:
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