Developer

Job summary

The Planning Inspectorate is recruiting for a Developer to join our growing Digital Services team as we expand to meet growing demands from our colleagues, government, and our customers.

You will be a member of a multidisciplinary team, writing code and providing technical expertise as part of our Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) Reform team. This will involve potentially working across multiple products including our casework management system, public facing websites and internal tools, as well as supporting our ongoing digital transformation work to create a more modern Inspectorate.

You will work with a smart and talented group of user researchers, product managers, DevOps engineers, testers, business analysts and delivery managers to deliver better public services for communities where they live; primarily supporting our services which examine applications and provide recommendations to the Secretary of State for major infrastructure projects such as power stations, airport expansions or major roads.

You will be joining a team of around 20 highly skilled software engineers, testers, and DevOps engineers, providing mentoring and guidance as well as setting the standard for technical excellence.

Job description

You will be responsible for working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, focussed on delivering high quality code in line with project goals and delivery cycles. As well as this you will be setting the standards for technical excellence within a team of Developers and fostering an environment where team members are supported and can come to you for guidance and feedback.

As a Developer, you will provide technical direction within the team to identify the best technology, solutions and industry standard Agile methodologies and embed and enhance practices such as TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps.

You will also keep up to date with the latest technologies and trends, whilst delivering working software early and often, learning new languages and frameworks and picking the right solutions.

Our Tech Stack

We rely on:

• NodeJS for our digital transformation work.
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript for both digital transformation and other services.
• Azure for our infrastructure and deployment.
• MSSQL for data storage.
• Docker and Azure Web Apps to host our digital transformation services.
• UK Design System for our web interfaces.

We’re happy to help you learn our tech stack once you are part of our team.

Check out GitHub for a closer look at the technology we use.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• Experience of building scalable, secure web applications (preferably in Azure) and a detailed knowledge of server-side JavaScript programming or other modern languages.
• A comprehensive understanding of front-end web development (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).
• Experience of agile development, software design patterns, continuous integration, and version control (preferably GitHub).
• Experience of developing and working with RESTful APIs.
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
• Proven experience balancing multiple priorities and dealing with ambiguity.
• Experience of identifying, locating and competently fixing faults.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of other Cloud platforms and programming languages (e.g., AWS, PHP, Java).
• Demonstrable experience of delivering user focused products with a thorough understanding of software design principles, standards, and practices.
• Understanding cyber security, developing solutions and services with security controls embedded.
• Evidence of mentoring, coaching or leading other developers (at work or in meetups etc.)

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Programming in Modern Languages
• Front End Web Development