Software Developer

Software Developer
6-12 months
London - Remote
£600 per day inside IR35 - umbrella only

Overview
Our developers work within multidisciplinary Agile teams to deliver secure, robust, and user centred digital services. The role involves building high quality software, contributing to technical design, and continually improving codebases to meet service and safety requirements.

Soft Skills & Behaviours:
Clear and confident communicator, able to work with designers, product teams, testers, engineers, and external partners.

• Highly collaborative, supporting team success and contributing to shared goals.
• Positive, engaged, and proactive, bringing energy to team ceremonies and wider delivery activities.
• Comfortable with change, able to work through evolving requirements or priorities.
• Keen to learn and share knowledge, contributing to code reviews, pair programming, and community of practice activities.
• Experienced working within Agile delivery, contributing to stand-ups, planning, reviews, retrospectives, and show and tell sessions.
• Delivers with quality, making sensible trade-offs and managing technical debt thoughtfully.
• Stays informed about modern technologies and practices, promoting proportionate adoption of tools that add value.

Technical Skills & Responsibilities:
Intermediate to advanced practical experience with:

• React and TypeScript
• Python
• AWS services i.e. Athena/Glue, DynamoDB, ECS, S3, Lambda, SQS, Step Function, etc
• Automated testing frameworks for Python and JavaScript
• Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
• Agile delivery workflows

Tooling experience:

• Git
• Jira
• Confluence

Desirable (Nice to Have):

• Cypress
• GitHub Actions
• Splunk

Other Requirements:

• Eligible for BPSS and SC clearance, due to interaction with sensitive or protected systems.
• Previous NHS experience is desirable, including understanding of NHS digital services or national systems.
• Exposure to digital product development and live service environments is advantageous.