Role: Senior Fullstack Developer
Start Date: ASAP
Contract Length: 12 Months (extensions possible)
Work Location: Remote, Occasional Paid Travel to UK Office
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Security Clearance: DV Cleared
Joining a critical public sector programme, you’ll play a key role in ensuring service resilience, stability, and compliance, while contributing to new feature development. This is a hands-on full stack engineering role, working across backend, frontend, and infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance microservices
• Implement and maintain clean, test-driven code
• Build and deploy containerised applications and manage integration with CI/CD pipelines
• Design and manage relational database schemas, including schema migrations
• Collaborate closely with developers, designers, & product teams to deliver E2E functionality
• Ensure solutions align with engineering and security best practices
• Ensuring smooth deployment into production environments
• Participate in agile ceremonies and foster a collaborative, knowledge-sharing engineering culture
• Develop and maintain frontend features
• Event-driven communication between services and implement API specifications
Required Experience:
* Spring Boot & Java – High-level proficiency
* Familiarity with relational SQL databases, ideally PostgreSQL
* Docker
* TDD – Junit / Mockito or similar testing libraries
* MUST have transferrable DV clearance
Desirable Skills:
* API Spec (Swagger OpenAPI)
* Gradle
* Liquibase
* Kafka
* React
* Typescript
* Previous government project experience with HMRC, HMPO or Home Office