Senior Full Stack Developer at Department for Work & Pensions, UK Wide, 12 Months, £Contract Rate

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer for a 12 month (Inside IR35) contract based Hybrid in Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Blackpool or Birmingham.

The team requires an experienced Senior Full Stack Developer with a strong backend engineering background to support current and future service demand. The role will complement existing capacity for day-to-day delivery and operational support while helping to modernise and enhance the Attendance Allowance service.

Core Purpose

The Attendance Allowance service has a delivery dependency on a wider Service Modernisation programme, requiring continued enhancement of the user journey while maintaining a stable and reliable service. Alongside delivering new features, the team is managing a range of competing priorities including technical debt remediation, ongoing service maintenance and support, GitLab migration activities, CI/CD pipeline improvements, dependency management and upgrades, peer code reviews and engineering best practice initiatives.

The team also collaborates closely to resolve critical issues through Agile swarming and contributes to wider technical and architectural improvements across the service. As a result, additional engineering capability is required to sustain delivery, protect service stability and support the long-term health and evolution of the Attendance Allowance service.

As a Senior Full Stack Developer, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Contribute to feature development within two-week sprint cycles
• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs
• Support technical architecture and contribute to strategic design decisions
• Assist with service maintenance, pipeline configuration and dependency management
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions and Agile ceremonies
• Work closely with operational and change teams to deliver user-focused solutions
• Support continuous improvement of engineering practices and delivery standards

Essential:

• Full stack development experience with a strong backend focus across Java and Node.js environments
• Strong commercial experience with Java and Spring Boot
• Experience developing applications using Node.js
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices
• Proven experience working within Agile Scrum teams, with a strong understanding of Scrum values, collaborative delivery and continuous improvement, enabling effective contribution within a high-performing team environment
• Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills

Desirable:

• Experience working with messaging or queuing technologies
• AWS cloud experience
• Experience managing and reducing technical debt
• Working knowledge of GitLab and dependency management tooling
• Broad experience across multiple technologies and tooling environments

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, DWP 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 exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

DWP guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

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.