Job description Would you like to help build and run the web applications and services powering the new Scottish Government native app?
The Digital Directorate is building a mobile app and associated services to allow the people of Scotland to access public services, via their mobile phones. The app will provide users with a convenient accessible way to perform tasks, access personalised information and interact with services directly from their smartphones, making best use of inherent mobile phone capabilities such as push notifications.
The software engineering team that develops those services, and companion web application, builds and runs applications on AWS using Kubernetes and Lambda. Backend services are written in Java, with Node JS and Typescript used for front end applications. Persistence is provided by S3, DynamoDB and Redis. We use Grafana/Prometheus for metrics and dashboarding; and Gitlab for CI/CD. The apps themselves are built in React Native.
You will contribute to designing, coding, testing, and maintaining backend and frontend services, supporting system integration, and implementing embedded security controls. The main objective of the role is to ensure that digital services are available, performant, and aligned with user needs while applying modern software engineering practices and standards.
Responsibilities
* Supporting work to improve the availability of services and ensure that they can handle expected load.
* Participating in the activities of the information security process.
* Implementing embedded security controls in solutions and services.
* Applying the principles of a modern standards approach under the guidance of others.
* Design, code, test, correct and document simple programs or scripts under the direction of others.
* Applying prototyping techniques or methods.
* Help to fix faults following agreed procedures.
* Conducting agreed maintenance tasks on infrastructure.
* Assisting as part of a team in the design of components of larger systems.
* Supporting the process of integrating systems and the building and testing of interfaces between systems.
* Provide support on user experience analysis.
* Working from user stories, focusing on user needs.