Senior Software Engineer - Web Development
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Senior Software Engineer - Web Development
Join Social Security Scotland's Chief Digital Office as a Senior Software Developer in Web Development. You will collaborate in a multidisciplinary team to deliver software components that support our vital social security systems.
Our software developers are deployed in Agile teams focusing on product development, live service, and continuous improvement. We believe in supporting our team members' growth and development and you will have access to formal training courses and team learning projects.
You will sit within Social Security Scotland’s Chief Digital Office (CDO), which has a remit to provide infrastructure and systems to support both the wider social security programme and Social Security Scotland.
We aim to develop within Social Security Scotland, a positive and inclusive culture, which supports our people to flourish, by embedding a working environment where we all treat each other with dignity and respect and recognise each other’s contributions.
A Senior Developer delivers and integrates software to form a complete service.
At This Role Level, You Will
- plan and lead development on sets of related stories.
- have an understanding of the whole system and take responsibility for teaching this to others.
- work with other disciplines to understand what needs to be built.
- coach and mentor more junior colleagues.
- operate the production services you build.
- find ways to improve system robustness, resilience and stability.
Responsibilities
- Manage web applications to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
- Identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.
- Participate in the information security process.
- Design and implement embedded security controls in solutions and services.
- Competently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so.
- Collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications.
- Use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
- Participate in team prototyping.
- Advocate for the use of prototypes and testing with others.
- Establish design patterns and iterate them.
- Use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate.
- Identify, locate and fix faults.
- Design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
- Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively.
- Review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
- Co-ordinate build activities across systems.
- Understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities.
- Collaborate with user researchers and represent users internally.
- Champion user research to focus on all users.
- Prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so.
- Offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.
Success Profiles
We use an assessment framework called ‘Success Profiles’ which lists the elements we test and provides detailed descriptions of each.
Essential Experience
- Demonstrate experience in solving complex problems by building solutions with JavaScript libraries like React and frameworks such as Next.js.
- Demonstrate expertise in maintaining and deploying applications using JavaScript libraries such as React and frameworks like Next.js.
Behaviours
- Leadership (Level 3)
- Developing self and others (Level 3)
Technical Skills
This role is aligned to Senior developer - Non Management within the Digital, Data and Technology Profession.
Equality Statement
Social Security Scotland are committed to equality and inclusion, and we aim to recruit a diverse workforce that reflects the population of our nation.
- Location:
- Glasgow
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- IT & Technology
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