Java Developer

Location: South of the UK / Hybrid
Clearance: Must hold active UKIC (South) clearance

The Role

We’re supporting multiple opportunities for Developers to join a secure delivery environment working on complex digital services within a highly sensitive government context.

These roles are suited to engineers with strong software development fundamentals and experience building secure, scalable, production-grade applications. Successful candidates will work as part of multidisciplinary teams delivering modern software solutions across backend, integration, and potentially full-stack environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain secure software solutions for critical digital services
• Build robust, maintainable code across backend or full-stack applications
• Work closely with product, platform, infrastructure and security teams to deliver high-quality software
• Contribute to solution design, code reviews, technical standards and engineering best practice
• Build and integrate APIs, services and application components
• Support automated testing, deployment and continuous integration practices
• Troubleshoot defects, optimise performance, and improve system maintainability
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across the engineering team
• Work within agile delivery environments and support iterative development approaches

Experience Required

• Strong experience in software engineering or development roles
• Experience with one or more core languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Go or similar
• Experience building production-grade applications in secure or enterprise environments
• Good understanding of API design, microservices or service-based architecture
• Experience with version control, branching strategies and collaborative development practices
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Strong understanding of testing practices including unit, integration and automated testing
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-structured code
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams