Software Engineers

Would you like tohelp build and run the platforms underpinning public services in Scotland? Access to public services is key. The Digital Identity team is hiring Software Engineers to realise our vision of providing users with a safe, easy way to prove who they are and access the services to which they are entitled. Joining our team, you can enjoy working on deep technical problems at scale, delivering for a diverse mix of users knowing you make a positive, tangible difference to potentially millions of people’s lives. You’ll also be enabling wider digital transformation across the public sector. As part of the Digital Components and Infrastructure division, our mission is to design, build, and operate Scottish Government platforms for Public Sector bodies across Scotland including Digital Identity, Payments, Cloud Computing, and other common capabilities. There are also opportunities to work in platform engineering, generalising, and building out an emerging Internal Developer Platform. The Role As a Software Engineer, you will: develop software to meet user needs, writing clean, efficient, secure, documented and well tested code; operate the services you build and identify issues in production: observe best practises contribute to their improvement; and have awareness of common security vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them. We welcome developers interested in working across both the front and back end (recognising you may be stronger in one of the areas). Our services and applications run on AWS (Amazon Web Services) using Kubernetes, 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 cloud platform team operate both an AWS and Azure platform. We don’t require experience of our specific tech stack and will support you to learn it or refresh your skills. There will also be opportunities to work with additional technologies beyond those listed above. Responsibilities Availability and capacity management Managing service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets. Software engineering (Programming and build) Collaborating with others when necessary to review specifications. Using agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools. User focus Collaborating with user researchers and representing users internally, you champion user research to focus on all users. Prioritising and defining approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. Offering recommendations on the best tools and methods to use. Development process optimisation Supporting specific activities to improve and identifying obvious deficiencies in development processes. Information security Participating in the information security process. Designing and implementing embedded security controls in solutions and services. Prototyping Participating in team prototyping, advocating for the use of prototyping, and testing with others. Establishing and iterating design patterns. Using a variety of prototyping methods and choosing the most appropriate. Systems design Designing systems characterised by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity, and meaningful impact. Producing detailed designs and working well with understood technology and identify appropriate patterns.

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