Software Engineer; Full Stack

Contract: Permanent
Hybrid: 2-3 days per week on-site and remote

Location:

Milton Keynes (client site)
Grade/Salary: E2-F1 – £54,619 to £65,544 depending on experience

An exciting opportunity to join an experienced team with responsibility for elements of a significant public sector deployment of IT solutions and systems enabling bespoke software. Working at client sites and home as required supporting the development, integration, rollout, and support of complex solutions. The successful candidate will work alongside a diverse team consisting of customer representatives, solution architects, academia, and leading software development companies.

The Digital Sensitivity Review (DSR) service is an AI innovation led data toolset and service, developed by SVGC Ltd and being run in partnership with Government departments, for identifying sensitive information in digital files for redaction and archiving to The National Archive to meet the needs of the Public Records Act. Already delivered to at least three other Government departments with two further departments in feasibility phase, all major and minor government departments should (in time) become DSR-enabled.

The DSR is a unique and leading-edge technology and has been heralded across government as “…the only game in town” when it comes to the needs of effective digital data sensitivity identification and redaction.

• Designing and implementing user interfaces (UI).
• Improving user experience (UX).

• Creating APIs and services.
• Writing server-side logic using Java.
• Working with frameworks using Spring Boot.

• Designing and maintaining relational (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL) databases.
• Writing efficient queries and ensuring data integrity.

• Setting up CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Jenkins).
• Automating deployments and monitoring application performance.
• Reviewing peers’ code to ensure quality and maintainability.

• Writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests using tools such as Junit, Test
• Containers, Vitetest and Story Book.

• Creating and maintaining internal documentation for code and APIs.
• Working with product managers, designers, and other developers to deliver features.

• Implementing authentication, authorization, and other security best practices.

• A graduate, likely to have a degree in Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Informatics or similar or vocational experience or alternative qualifications.
• Experienced with different programming paradigms and languages covering full-stack technologies including web front end.
• Hands-on experience in Application Design.
• Experience in specifying, designing, building, and testing complex full-stack software solutions.
• Expertise in design & development of Application Programming Interface.
• Expertise in developing and employing onto a Windows and Linux environment.
• Good practical knowledge of relational database technologies – ideally Postgre
  
  SQL.
• Strong data skills and demonstrable analysis and analytical skills.
• Must have the ability to confidently and quickly problem solve by understanding what is happening, why and then correcting.
• Expertise in at least two back-end technologies, ideally Java & Python.
• Software virtualisation skills e.g., Docker.
  The willingness and ability to gain or currently holding UK Security Clearance (SC) as a minimum. This role is a Reserved role which requires the post-holder to have British Nationality and requires the successful candidate to undergo UK Security Clearance (SC). To be eligible, applicants are typically required to hold British nationality and have been resident in the UK for at least the last 5 consecutive years.
• Ability to easily commute to Milton Keynes and potentially other UK sites.
• The ability to work well and collaboratively as part of a small team where proactive communication is essential.

• The ability to assist with architectural activities to establish, manage, and maintain client-centred software solutions, including both air-gapped and…