Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and enhance digital products and services for citizen- and officer-facing applications.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain APIs and backend services.
• Develop modern, responsive, and maintainable frontend applications.
• Design and implement secure data ingestion and ETL pipelines.
• Develop and maintain integrations across government agencies, platforms, and external partners.
• Modernise and enhance existing Java-based and platform applications.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure, application deployment, and delivery pipelines.
• Develop and maintain automated tests to improve software quality, reliability, and release confidence.
• Establish and apply observability and operational practices to support production systems.
• Implement security and compliance controls across applications, APIs, data, and services.
• Design and develop scalable, maintainable, and reusable engineering capabilities that can be adopted across multiple teams.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, QA, DevOps, security, and other engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards, best practices, and continuous improvement.

Relevant Technical Experience:

• Backend development using Java, Kotlin, Python, Node.js / TypeScript, Go, C#, or similar languages
• Frontend development using React / Next.js, Vue, Angular, or similar frameworks
• RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
• Microservices and distributed systems
• SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
• NoSQL databases where appropriate
• Data processing and ETL pipelines
• System integration and event-driven architectures
• Automated testing and maintainable software design
• Git-based development and code reviews
• Docker and containerisation
• Cloud deployment and production operations
• Secure software development and engineering practices