Software Developer
Location: London – Hybrid
Employment: Full Time
All applicants must hold a DV (Developed Vetting) clearance to apply.
The Opportunity:
For the Ministry of Defence, maintaining National Security is a 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year mission. To support these complex operations, the MoD focuses on critical thinking to drive value across its strategic initiatives and technology investments.
The Role:
As a Software Developer, you will support digitising the UK’s defence, intelligence, and military agencies, collaborating with high-performing multidiscipline teams to deliver E2E features and cloud-native applications.
Additionally, you’ll build robust and scalable digital platforms that enable teams to continuously develop modern micro-services-based solutions to improve environments through automation and infrastructure-as-code.
Required Skills/Experience:
- British Passport Holder with active DV (Developed Vetting) Clearance.
- Previous Defence, Military, Policing, National Security, Counter Terrorism, or Justice Project involvement.
- Experience of coding in one or more relevant programming languages, e.g. Java, C#, JavaScript, Python, C++ etc.
- Understanding of the fundamentals of software development in Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, and/or Python.
- Demonstrable understanding of working in teams, particularly in agile methodologies such as Scrum & Kanban.
- Delivering cloud-native and containerised applications using technologies including AWS Lambda, Spring Boot, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ELK.
- Building solutions as part of a DevOps and Agile ecosystem supported by tooling including Atlassian, Jenkins, OWASP, and AWS componentry.
Benefits:
- Base Salary: £55,000 - £75,000 (DoE)
- Discretionary Bonus - 2.5%
- DV Bonus £5,000
- Flex Fund: £5,000
- Health: Private Medical Insurance