Job title: Senior Software Engineer
Band: 5
Salary: £59,877-£66,869 (plus allowance up to £9,000 per annum depending on technical assessment)
Location: Liverpool, Norwich, Newport, Birmingham
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full time/Compressed
Job Summary
In this role, you will join a cross‑functional squad of four engineers working within a high‑trust, ego‑free engineering culture where we process over £2 Billion in annual procurement for critical public services. Operating with a continuous‑deployment mindset, our mission is to build robust, intelligent platforms that optimise national spending and deliver tangible value to the nation. We favour “strong opinions, weakly held,” peer code reviews, and an open environment where diverse perspectives and honest feedback are the foundation for delivering exceptional software.
Key Accountabilities
- Own the design, build, and deployment of scalable features for our core procurement platform.
- Take accountability for the performance and security of systems processing high‑volume public sector data.
- Lead the practical integration of Agentic AI coding practices into the team’s daily development workflow.
- Write and review code: ship clean, secure, and well‑tested code while participating in constructive peer reviews.
- Coach and mentor: guide fellow team members, sharing technical knowledge and supporting their development through regular, honest feedback and pair programming.
- Collaborate across functions: work closely with product managers and UX designers to translate complex public sector needs into technical solutions.
- Improve practices: champion high engineering standards, from refining our CI/CD pipelines to minimizing technical debt.
Essential Criteria
- Python expert: extensive experience in backend software engineering with Python.
- Claude Code experience: practical experience adopting and integrating Agentic AI coding practices (such as Claude Code) and LLM workflows into daily development to improve workflow efficiency while managing token consumption and API costs.
- UML modelling experience: proven capability in translating high‑level architecture into detailed low‑level designs using UML modelling techniques, such as sequence, class, or component diagrams.
- SOLID craftsmanship: deep understanding of clean code and SOLID principles, and a demonstrated ability to apply these standards during peer code reviews to spot design anti‑patterns and improve system reliability.
- Test‑driven expert: advanced expertise in Test‑Driven Development (TDD) and structuring robust unit and integration tests to ensure that high‑volume microservices can be safely and continuously deployed without risking production downtime.
Success Profiles (Assessment)
- Behaviours: Making effective decisions, leadership, delivering at pace, technical, information security, modern development standards, systems design.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- Generous pension scheme.
- Discretionary non‑contractual performance‑related bonus.
- Remote work in addition to working in advertised office location.
- Flexible time scheme (available for B1‑B6).
- Minimum 25 days annual leave up to a maximum of 30 days excluding bank holidays.
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