Developer

Developer - 6 Months - Outside IR35 - Hybrid Working

Day Rate - Up to £480

Harvey Nash's public sector client are currently looking to recruit a Developer to join their team based remotely/Edinburgh for an initial 6 month period.

Assignment description:

The organisation is looking for an experienced developer with solid commercial experience of building web applications and REST APIs using Spring Boot in an OpenShift environment is required to accelerate the organisations delivery of new and improved digital services to customers.

Essential Skills:

Significant commercial experience in the following technology:

• Java 17/21
• js 18/22
• Spring Boot microservices
• Spring Security and OAuth 2.0
• JavaScript and TypeScript development
• Modern front-end frameworks, particularly React and Next.js
• OpenShift
• RabbitMQ
• PostgreSQL
• CI/CD tooling, including Jenkins Pipelines and GitLab Runners

Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas:

• Delivering high-quality software collaboratively within high performing, cross-functional development teams.
• Designing, socialising, achieving consensus on, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects.
• Developing solutions in line with Digital First and GDS standards and best practices.
• Designing, developing, and maintaining modern, accessible, and responsive web applications using React and Next.js.
• Building reusable UI components and leveraging design systems and pattern libraries to deliver consistent and maintainable user experiences.
• Creating and maintaining comprehensive end-to-end UI test suites using Playwright, covering critical user journeys, functional validation, regression testing, and cross-browser compatibility.
• Designing and implementing service-oriented and event-driven architectures.
• API design, development, and integration.
• Using Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming to deliver high-quality, maintainable code.
• Implementing Consumer-Driven Contract Testing to validate system behaviour and integration points.
• Adopting modern DevOps practices and Continuous Delivery approaches.
• Using cloud monitoring, observability, telemetry, and analytics tools, particularly Grafana and Kibana/OpenSearch.
• Incrementally modernising and replacing enterprise legacy systems.
• Working within Agile delivery environments, particularly Kanban.
• Using code quality, monitoring, telemetry, and analytics tools to support software reliability and performance.
• Designing and developing solutions with both relational and NoSQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Knowledge of the Scottish Land Registration process
• Renovate, S3, Aurora/Postgres, Grafana, SonarQube, Software
• Vulnerabilities Management
• Typescript, Playwright
• Python 2.7/3.x

This role has been deemed Outside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.