Role-Application Engineer
Location- London- Hybrid Role with day travel to client site Contract - Inside IR35 Developers at NHS England work within multi disciplinary Agile teams to deliver secure, robust, and user centred digital services. The role involves building high quality software, contributing to technical design, and continually improving codebases to meet NHS service and safety requirements.
Soft Skills & Behaviours:
Clear and confident communicator, able to work with designers, product teams, testers, engineers, and external partners.
Highly collaborative, supporting team success and contributing to shared goals.
Positive, engaged, and proactive, bringing energy to team ceremonies and wider delivery activities.
Comfortable with change, able to work through evolving requirements or priorities.
Keen to learn and share knowledge, contributing to code reviews, pair programming, and community of practice activities.
Experienced working within Agile delivery, contributing to stand-ups, planning, reviews, retrospectives, and show and tell sessions.
Delivers with quality, making sensible trade-offs and managing technical debt thoughtfully.
Stays informed about modern technologies and practices, promoting proportionate adoption of tools that add value.
Technical Skills & Responsibilities:
Intermediate to advanced practical experience with:
React and TypeScript
Python
AWS services i.e. Athena/Glue, DynamoDB, ECS, S3, Lambda, SQS, Step Function, etc
Automated testing frameworks for Python and JavaScript
Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
Agile delivery workflows
Tooling experience:
Git
Jira
Confluence
Desirable (Nice to Have):
Cypress
GitHub Actions
Splunk
Other Requirements:
Eligible for BPSS and SC clearance, due to interaction with sensitive or protected systems.
Previous NHS experience is desirable, including understanding of NHS digital services or national systems.
Exposure to digital product development and live service environments is advantageous.
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