Position Overview & Specifications

** Developer (Hybrid) **

** Locations available in - Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Stratford, Telford, Worthing **

Are you a Developer looking to make your next career move?

Do you have experience of using a range of programming languages and development tools?

This is an exciting and challenging role for those looking to deliver technological change against a background of organisational transformation, as well as an opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives by delivering great digital products.

If you are looking for a role that offers clearly defined career pathways, a healthy work/life balance and a chance to work with cutting edge technology, this might just be the role for you!

As a Developer working for Borders and Trade, you’ll be a key part of a multidisciplinary delivery team, building the software necessary to meet users’ needs and the identified business requirements.

Following best practices, you’ll write clean, secure, and well-tested code, so it is important that you have a logical and analytical approach when it comes to problem solving and keeping close attention to detail.

As well as development experience, you’ll also have a breadth of testing experience, being able to quality assure to ensure that the product and service meets user needs.

You’ll be working with various stakeholders across Borders and Trade, unlocking the potential of software components to deliver value to stakeholders. This will be done through designing, coding, verifying, testing, amending and refactoring moderately complex programmes and scripts

You’ll also be able to monitor and report on progress as well as propose practical solutions to resolve issues after identifying any that are related to software development activities; and will complete this in reviews of work with others where this is appropriate.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

You will be able to demonstrate experience of:

Working alongside other developers and professions to realise working software.
Working with programming languages such as C.
Experience of using Unix.
Good understanding of code error resolution, software backup and recovery strategies.
Good analytical skills.
Experience of operating a live service.

Desirable Criteria:

It is desirable for you to demonstrate experience of: