Junior Full Stack Software Engineer

About us

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK's most important tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place. You'll join a talented team of dynamic problem solvers, creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges. Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing international digital transformation consultancy delivering multi‑Queen's Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large‑scale digital transformation across public and private sector brands.

As a Junior Software Engineer at Informed Solutions, you will design, build and deliver digital services that tackle real‑world public sector engagements. Working alongside engineers, designers, data specialists and delivery managers, you will take responsibility for delivering components or small services across the full lifecycle, learning from senior colleagues and developing both technical and delivery skills.

• Deliver software components: build and support small‑to‑medium components or services across the full software lifecycle, from design and development through to deployment, operation and improvement.
• Collaborate on architecture and design: work with Lead and Senior Engineers to implement architectural patterns, design decisions and coding standards, producing clear and maintainable documentation.
• Support delivery planning: work with the team and Delivery Managers to plan work, estimate effort and identify technical risks and dependencies, escalating issues when needed.
• Contribute to quality and best practice: write clean, tested, and reliable code, follow agile practices including TDD, CI/CD and code reviews, ensuring solutions meet functional and non‑functional requirements.
• Build stakeholder confidence: communicate clearly with the team and, when appropriate, with clients and partner organisations, ensuring transparency in your work and progress.
• Learn and develop: take opportunities to grow technical skills, learn from peers and senior colleagues, and apply new knowledge to improve delivery and team effectiveness.

• Experience in full‑stack development with proficiency in at least one backend language (.NET, Java, Python) and modern JavaScript frameworks/libraries.
• Ability to develop and deliver software components or small services from design through to deployment.
• Understanding of software architecture, design patterns and modern cloud‑native approaches (microservices, serverless).
• Practical experience in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban) and following practices such as TDD, CI/CD and iterative delivery.
• Experience collaborating in multidisciplinary teams, supporting senior engineers and contributing effectively to team goals.
• Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and related tooling for deployment and monitoring.
• Good communication and collaboration skills, with a willingness to learn from feedback and adapt.

• Exposure to consultancy or client‑facing environments.
• Experience contributing to public sector digital services or complex organisational contexts.
• Familiarity with agile delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, or Azure Dev Ops.
• Enthusiasm for continuous learning, professional development, and knowledge sharing.

• Work effectively in environments that involve uncertainty, change and agile working.
• Manage competing priorities and time to deliver high‑quality work within deadlines.
• Respect and accept different perspectives, work collaboratively in diverse teams, and maintain positive working relationships.
• Make sound judgement and decisions in complex environments where uncertainty, ambiguity and risk must be collaboratively managed.
• Communicate clearly and constructively, both written and verbal.

• Informed ACADEMY™ – career development programmes and support with professional certifications.
• Industry‑leading health and wellbeing plan – 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working.
• Private Health Care Cover.
• Generous life assurance cover.
• Gym membership.
• Monthly office lunch.
• Onsite massage sessions.
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays.
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme.
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay.
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay.
• Company Pension Contribution.
• Profit Share Scheme.
• Payment of professional subscriptions.
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals.
• Qualifying period applies.