Software Engineer

On behalf of Homes England we are looking for a Software Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based remotely with occasional office travel.

Homes England, the government's housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

The role of the Software Engineer is to undertake software engineering and production support on systems developed and operated by Homes England.

As a Software Engineer you will have experience of developing and operating highly usable and accessible services that meet the needs of their users. You will have technical experience across several domain areas: Front End, Back End, database, cloud infrastructure, on-premise, systems integration, greenfield and Legacy solutions. You will adapt to the needs of your multi-disciplinary team, will be pragmatic, will have the experience needed to work on a variety of systems and to solve complex problems.

As a Software Engineer your main responsibilities will be:

. You will develop and support complex digital services as part of a multi-disciplinary team, working to user needs, service design expectations and agreed priorities.
. You will ensure that security, data protection, performance, capacity, recovery, logging, monitoring and other non-functional design needs and operational requirements are baked into the implementation of our digital services, protecting our customer data and minimising cybersecurity threats.
. You will prototype emerging technologies, or technical solutions to user needs and measure the effectiveness of these changes on our end-to-end services.
. You will update and upgrade our services, ensuring they are effectively maintained, and that technical debt is managed and addressed appropriately throughout their lifetime.
. You will work to technical standards on your project to maintain high levels of technical quality.
. You will apply your problem-solving skills both to the resolution of issues with the services you support, and to continuously improve on the working practices within your team.
. You review and adopt Homes England software development standards and best practices, leveraging design patterns and the pursuit of re-use across Homes England's solutions through the community of practice.
. In keeping with Homes England values and as a member of technical staff within Digital you will embody our spirit of collaboration and support colleagues by undertaking other reasonable duties when required to ensure we provide excellent services to our customers.

Essential:

. Experience contributing to software solutions and resolving complex issues within a large and complex digital transformation programme.
. Experience of working with technical delivery within a multi-disciplinary agile team.
. Experience working within a culture of best practice within a community of practice.
. Experience in the use of several of the following technologies: .NET Framework and .NET Core, ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, T-SQL, Azure, Angular.
. Proficient in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with experience of building accessible, secure and scalable Internet services that conform to WCAG.
. Experience building and managing secure APIs and microservices that integrate with third-party solutions and Legacy systems
. Experienced in the application of SOLID principles and the use of software design patterns that create sustainable solutions and support reuse
. Experienced in best practice software development, Test Driven Development and with experience of using CI/CD pipelines and environments.
. Public Sector experience is highly desirable.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Homes England guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".