Software Developer

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Job description

This is an exciting and challenging role for those looking to deliver and inform technological change against a background of organisational transformation.

Valuation Office Customer Group provides digital services and IT support to the Valuation Office: drawing on HMRC’s digital expertise to ensure our customer (the Valuation Office) gets the right level of service as well as building and supporting specialist unique services.

There are some important attributes that we are looking for in anyone joining Chief Digital Product Office, Valuation Office. You must have a collaborative approach and a passion to communicate effectively. You will take accountability and ownership with the ability to coach, mentor, reflect and ability to give and take feedback. You will be flexible and adaptable, working with a sense of urgency and passionate about having ‘Customer’ at the heart of what you do.

The Valuation Office is currently in the process of a transformation project. This role will involve working with a multi disciplined team to deliver new services within multiple environments and working with wider stakeholders. The work will include coding and completing the process to enable the systems to go live.

As a Developer, you will work within a delivery team; building high-quality, reliable, and maintainable digital services. You will help to further the capability of our technical community by demonstrating best practices and sharing knowledge through community events and academy sessions. You will work within your team under the guidance of your lead or senior developer, often pairing as you employ a test-driven approach to software development, helping your team to meet the needs of our users.

As a member of the Software Developer community, you will be working as part of a DevOps team using Agile best practices. You will work alongside other Developers producing test driven code and advising on software engineering best practices. Collaborating across disciplines within your team, you will help ensure the digital services being delivered help our stakeholders achieve their aims, meet HMRC standards and enable the organisation to achieve its strategic objectives.

Person specification

The candidate will have a proven record of being able work within a multi discipline team, contributing to discussions and seeking to resolve issues as they arise. They will be part of a development team where they be coding to standard and on time, while able to prioritise work on their own, picking up tickets as they are assigned to them.

As a Developer, you will work within a delivery team; building high-quality, reliable, and maintainable digital services. You will help to further the capability of our technical community by demonstrating best practices and sharing knowledge through community events and academy sessions.

You will work within your team under the guidance of your lead or senior developer, often pairing as you employ a test-driven approach to software development, helping your team to meet the needs of our users.

As a member of the Software Developer community, you will be working as part of a DevOps team using Agile best practices. You will work alongside other Developers producing test driven code and advising on software engineering best practices. Collaborating across disciplines within your team, you will help ensure the digital services being delivered help our stakeholders achieve their aims, meet HMRC standards and enable the organisation to achieve its strategic objectives. There will be some monitoring of the services using platform tool to understand the health and stability of the services.

Role responsibilities:

• Scala programming.
• Maintain legacy applications.
• Develop andmaintain new applications using the team’s chosen technologies and tools.
• Apply agreed best practice and internal coding standards.
• Write Unit Tests.
• Peer-review code and ensure software is source controlled.
• Trouble-shoot software and work with Live Services to resolve issues.
• Create documentation.
• Assist colleagues with your technical expertise.
• Communicate with customers and colleagues to ensure solutions are well understood and optimally coded to deliver on business requirements.

Essential Criteria

• Working alongside other developers and professions to realise working software.
• Using Scala to build frontend (HTML/CSS/JS) and backend microservices.
• Continuous integration (unit testing, TDD, Jenkins, Git).
• Experience of MVC frameworks (Spring, Play, etc).
• Working in an agile software development role focussing on user-centred design.
• Problem solving and delivering a range ofpossible solutions, including through technical work and process improvement.
• Operating a live service, using observability tooling such as Kibana, Grafana and Google Tag Manager.
• Experience in using Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo) or equivalent tools.

Desirable Criteria

• Working within a GDS style delivery assurance framework and with a design system such as the GOV.UK Design System.

Further Location Information

Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a ‘Further Location Preferences (optional)’ field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.

Office closures

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

These sites are:

• Lynx House, Portsmouth – moving to an alternative office in Portsmouth
• Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Leeds Locations

Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRC’s Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,682, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £10,916 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.