Senior Backend Developer - SC Cleared at DBT, Belfast/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

PLEASE NOTE: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

As a Senior Developer you will play a key role in delivering robust and maintainable software that meets user needs. You will contribute across the full software development lifecycle, from design and implementation through to deployment and production support. You will build a deep understanding of the wider service and use that knowledge to solve technical problems, improve system reliability, and help shape practical solutions. Alongside your development work, you will contribute to a strong engineering culture by reviewing code, sharing expertise, and supporting colleagues.

As a Senior Backend Developer your main responsibilities will be to:

• Deliver new components and modifications to existing components to support the required functionality in accordance with the defined architecture, backlog items and coding standards.
• Collaborate within a multidisciplinary team, to take designs and prototypes and build a service in working software that meets user needs.
• Collaborate with the Technical Architect and lead on technical decisions.
• Collaborate with designers, user researchers and analysts within sprint cycles to produce iterations based on user needs.

Essential:

• Experience building REST APIs and / or web applications in Python and Django.
• Experience in the design, build and support of microservices and containerised applications using Docker.
• Experience with web application development using technologies like JSON, HTML, SCSS, JavaScript and AWS.
• Experience working with SQL.
• Experience working in an agile team.
• Experience building and maintaining continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• Experience identifying and resolving live incidents.

Desirable:

• Familiarity with frontend design systems (e.g. GOV.UK Design System, Bootstrap etc).
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog, ELK, Grafana, Splunk

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a Disability Confident employer, DBT encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, DBT welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the 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.