Government Digital & Data
05/02/2026
Full time
Location Bristol, Darlington, London, Manchester, Wolverhampton About the job Job summary Here at the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG), we work on things that make a real difference to people's lives. Whether it's through the homes we live in, the work of our local councils, or the communities we're all part of, our work is at the top of the political agenda. We have ambitious and far-reaching outcomes to achieve this year and, if you're thinking of joining us, there's never been a more exciting time. We're looking for a Senior Software Developer to join a large multidisciplinary team with a wide range of stakeholders. We need people who want to be involved in all aspects of our multidisciplinary team's activity, from working with our user researcher to design, prototyping, and planning. As a Senior Software Developer, day-to-day you will pair-program across the whole stack from frontend to backend to produce clean, high quality code. Experience of test-driven development is expected, as is as is experience of building RESTful APIs. We are particularly looking for experience with Python or Ruby. You can find out more about how we write software in the MHCLG Way . Find out more about our Digital teams and what they are working on through our MHCLG Digital blog . Please note that MHCLG do not offer visa sponsorship and applicants will need a valid visa for the duration of your employment. Job description As a Senior Software Developer, you'll: Develop high-quality software following the clean architecture design pattern Follow development best-practice, including regular pair programming and TDD Maintain the live service, keeping it reliable and secure through monitoring and active management of the production infrastructure Build up a robust automated test suite to support our continuous deployment environment Work collaboratively with a range of disciplines including product managers, designers and user researchers, as well as other developers, to meet the needs of users of the service Take a leadership role within the technical team, which may include line management of other Developers Be on the rota for regularly providing second-line technical support for issues raised on the service helpdesk Person specification As a Senior Software Developer, you'll have: Experience of full stack development of cloud-based web applications Experience of developing in at least one of Python, Ruby, Rust and TypeScript Experience building RESTful APIs Experience of building accessible user interfaces Experience using SQL to work with relational databases Experience of working with a live production system, including monitoring for performance and potential security issues, and triaging problems Experience of working on agile projects as part of a multidisciplinary team