Developer - Central Government

Role: Developer REF 730
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: Hybrid/London, Manchester or Bristol - Predominantly remote. No minimum expectation for onsite working per week, however they should have flexibility for team meetings in the London office
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £550 - £600 per day
Security Clearance: SC requested

About the Role

Spinwell is recruiting for a Developer an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

Key Responsibilities

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary agile team, getting involved with every part of the lifecycle of a service, from user research to continuously deploying code to production in our AWS environments
• Build robust, performant Ruby on Rails applications to serve a variety of public and government needs, taking responsibility for the quality of code you produce
• Implement tooling and automation to support development, operation, reliability, security and continuous improvement of the systems you work on
• Take the service live and hand over to Civil Servants
• Share your work and the things you’ve learned through blog posts and show and tells, with the option of presenting at conferences and meetups

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience in back-end development, with knowledge of Ruby on Rails programming language used for back-end web development
• An awareness of technologies used for cloud-based web applications, such as HTTP, databases, backups, CDNs, search, containers (e.g. docker or kubernetes) and cloud computing (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Azure)
• Understanding of software design principles, and an ability to apply them
• Familiarity with modern software development approaches such as automated testing, test driven development (TDD), continuous integration, pair programming, code review and version control
• Understanding of common web security risks such as OWASP Top 10, and the corresponding mitigations
• Enjoy researching and learning new programming tools and techniques and sharing their skills with others
• Have experience working in a collaborative environment, and an understanding of the benefits of agile and multi-disciplinary approaches
• A desire to use their skills and experience to make a genuine difference, and to work on important services that are used by millions of people

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