Principal Software Engineer

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We are recruiting for a Principal Software Developer to provide additional leadership to the Software Development profession during a time of growth.

• Are you someone who could help encourage our profession to be the best it can be?
• Are you enthusiastic about making change and ensuring all our teams have the skills and knowledge they need to succeed?

These are exciting times at Companies House as we continue our transformation journey, developing new digital services that are used nationally  services are built using the latest technology and cloud services, with a focus on microservice development on AWS.

This role is a unique opportunity to shape how we develop and secure our digital services. Working within an embedded agile delivery structure you will be empowered to define the processes and technology we use to produce software.

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Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best  recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.

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You’ll work closely with the Head of the Development to produce, lead and implement strategies to:

• Improve the flow of software into production and meet users needs.
• Ensure high quality software is delivered within an agile delivery environment through the constant improvement of standards and processes.
• Establish communities of practice both internally and externally, in order to share knowledge and help.
• Raise the profile of Development and Companies House both internally and externally through knowledge sharing and supporting others to create a culture of innovation and experimentation.
• Keep up to date with emerging technologies and lead the introduction into the development community when appropriate, ensuring that legacy technologies and services are constantly improved or removed as necessary.

We want our profession to:

• Be passionate about meeting user needs by releasing software as often as possible.
• Be enthusiastic about clean maintainable code, well designed software and coaching others with it.
• Love helping and mentoring others to enable them to work at their best.

We would love you to be part of our team and help us get to a point where the following are part of the culture. We want to:

• Have many releases per day automatically into production.
• Have automated test coverage for everything from accessibility to security and performance.
• Be constantly innovating and running iterations of our services to meet and exceed user needs.
• Be publicly recognised as an organisation that works openly on interesting things.
• Ensure we are meeting the needs of our users by ensuring we have diversity in thought and ideas.

Person specification

We're looking for the following, which will be assessed at sift and  successful candidate will be someone who:

• Values working in the open, and are comfortable sharing ideas early.
• Is optimistic and will lead the teams according to the Companies House values by being Adaptable, Bold and Curious.
• Is proactive, and encourage others to take practical action.
• Recognises that diverse views make our services better. You’ll communicate across borders, whether that’s teams, directorates or government agencies.
• Enjoys learning and experimenting with new approaches and tools.
• Relishes helping others to work at their best.
• Is confident using a coaching or mentoring approach to provide…