Lead Software Developer; SFIA | NodeJS

Location
:
Remote/Occasional Travel Manchester
Duration
: 6 months
Day Rate
: £575 per day (Inside IR35)
Clearance
: BPSS Required
Experience
:
Public Sector experience mandatory

We are seeking an experienced Full Stack Developer (Node.js/Java) to join a high-profile public sector programme operating to GDS Service Standard and DDaT capability guidelines. The successful candidate will play a key role in the design, build, and optimisation of scalable APIs and microservices within a secure, agile, and user-centred delivery environment.

This role suits a collaborative engineer comfortable working across multi-disciplinary teams, contributing to CI/CD practices, and ensuring solutions adhere to secure-by-design principles.

• Node.js and Type Script
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Git Lab (source control and CI/CD pipelines)
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Cloud-native and serverless architecture
• Event-driven and microservices-based systems

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Back End services and APIs using Node.js and Java