Senior Software Developer ( SC Cleared

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires Senior Software Developer with Active SC Cleareance to be based at their client’s office in Newcastle / London / Leeds / Manchester / Blackpool / Sheffield, UK.

This is a hybrid role – you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Newcastle / London / Leeds / Manchester / Blackpool / Sheffield office 1-2 days per week

This is a 12 month temporary contract to start asap

Day rate:
Competitive Market rate

• As a Senior Software Developer, you will develop and maintain software products and contribute to their design within a multi functional Agile delivery team. You will be responsible for the operational stability of the products you build and will help improve their ongoing robustness and resilience.
• This role expects full stack capability. You will be proficient in backend technologies and databases while also being able to build front end user interfaces (UIs), translating designs into implementations that consider user experience, performance, and security.
• You will work with modern cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure), including serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS), containerized platforms, APIs and microservice/event-driven architectures (Kafka), supported by CI/CD pipelines.
• You will work on evolving digital services, including partially developed user interfaces, supporting iterative delivery towards MVP and customer-facing solutions. You will collaborate closely with UCD, Dev Ops, and product teams, adapting solutions based on user feedback and supporting both UI and backend development activities.

• Develop and maintain software products for digital services and contribute to solution design
• Build full-stack applications using Java (8+), Node.js, Spring Boot, and modern front-end frameworks (Angular preferred)
• Work on existing and evolving UI components, supporting iterative development towards MVP and production-ready user journeys
• Collaborate with Dev Ops, UCD, and Agile delivery teams to support design, deployment, testing, and continuous improvement
• Develop applications using cloud-native patterns across AWS/Azure, including serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS)
• Design and build APIs, RESTful services, and microservice/event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar)
• Support backlog activities including defect resolution, non-UI development tasks, and BAU contributions as required
• Use Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to provision and manage scalable, repeatable environments
• Work with containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), including exposure to managed platforms (e.g., EKS)
• Build and maintain automated test suites, contribute to CI/CD pipelines (Git Lab), and follow engineering best practices including code quality, security, accessibility (WCAG) and performance optizatio

• Strong full-stack development capability across backend, databases, and front-end applications
• Strong hands-on full-stack development experience using Node.js(JavaScript/Type Script), backend frameworks (e.g., Express) and modern front-end frameworks (Angular preferred) with additional experience in Java (Spring Boot)
• Experience with AWS serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway – private, SQS, S3, KMS, Cloud Watch, X-Ray)
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks (Angular preferred)
• Experience working with No
  
  SQL databases such as MongoDB or Amazon Document DB
• Experience designing and working with APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar)
• Familiarity with templating frameworks such as Nunjuck and hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
• Experience with…