Software Engineer; Components Team

• Job Family Software Engineering/Development
• Locations Glasgow, United Kingdom Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
• Working Pattern Full Time
• Number of Openings 5
• Apply Before 01/18/2026, 11:59 PM

Would you like to help build and run the platforms underpinning public services in Scotland?

The Digital Directorate is building a mobile app and associated services to allow the people of Scotland to access public services via their mobile phones. The app will provide users with a convenient, accessible way to perform tasks, access personalised information, and interact with services directly from their smartphones, making best use of inherent mobile phone capabilities such as push notifications.

The software engineering team that develops those services, and the companion web application, builds and runs applications on AWS using Kubernetes and Lambda. Backend services are written in Java, with Node JS and Typescript used for front-end applications. Persistence is provided by S3, Dynamo

DB, and Redis. We use Grafana/Prometheus for metrics and dash-boarding, and Gitlab for CI/CD. The apps themselves are built in React Native.

As Software Engineer, you will: develop software to meet user needs, writing clean, efficient, secure, documented and well tested code; operate the services you build and identify issues in production: observe best practises contribute to their improvement; and have awareness of common security vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them.

We welcome developers interested in working across both the front and back end (recognising you may be stronger in one of the areas, and will try to assign to teams accordingly).

We don’t require experience of our specific tech stack and will support you to learn it or refresh your skills.

There will also be opportunities to work with additional technologies beyond those listed above.

Availability and capacity management

• Managing service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.

Software engineering (Programming and build)

• Collaborating with others when necessary to review specifications.
• Using agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Collaborating with user researchers and representing users internally, you champion user research to focus on all users.
• Prioritising and defining approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so.
• Offering recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.

Development process optimisation

• Supporting specific activities to improve and identifying obvious deficiencies in development processes.

Information security

• Participating in the information security process.
• Designing and implementing embedded security controls in solutions and services.

Prototyping

• Participating in team prototyping, advocating for the use of prototyping, and testing with others.
• Establishing and iterating design patterns.
• Using a variety of prototyping methods and choosing the most appropriate.
• Designing systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact.
• Producing detailed designs and working well with understood technology and identify appropriate patterns.

Success profiles are specific to each job, and they include the mix of experience, skills and behaviours candidates will be assessed on.

• You run it - Your experience developing and deploying an application allows you to help identify and fix faults following agreed procedures and carry out agreed maintenance tasks.
• You design it
  -Your experience of the technologies and patterns used by your team enables you to produce detailed designs of components and data structures using well understood technology, appropriate patterns, and security controls embedded.
• You Write it - Your experience writing programs and scripts allows you to use agreed specifications to independently design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools.

Experience is assessed at sift, along with a more in-depth assessment at…