Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

Software Engineer role at Made Tech. The mission is to improve public services with technology. We work with UK government, NHS, local government, and other public sector clients to deliver and manage world‑class digital products and cloud services.

Write and deliver custom software for the public sector, across central and local government and health services. Emphasis is on outcome‑based delivery, ensuring customer goals are understood and achieved.

Senior Software Engineers work on a variety of problems from monoliths to microservices, upskilling colleagues and learning from others. They will use Java, Ruby, Python, ES6 with React, and C# with .NET Core, and will build CD pipelines to test, build, and release many times per day.

Key technical areas include Terraform, OpenAPI, AWS Lambda, containerisation, and a Dev Ops culture that focuses on sharing platforms rather than building infrastructure in isolation.

• Write code with tests
• Deliver features in an agile environment
• Work across multiple programming languages
• Use cloud platforms, databases, and APIs
• Debug systems across a range of environments
• Mentor and coach team members
• Contribute to architecture and infrastructure as code

• Written code with tests
• Delivery in an agile environment
• Experience with multiple programming languages
• Experience with at least one cloud platform
• Experience with databases
• Experience with APIs
• Debugging experience
• Evidence of self‑development and keen learning
• Drive to deliver outcomes for users
• Desire to mentor others

• Consultancy experience
• Direct customer and user engagement
• Experience with in multidisciplinary teams
• Presentation skills
• Scrum, XP, or Kanban practices
• Pair programming
• Test‑driven development
• Component‑based design techniques (e.g., styled‑components, BEM, SUIT CSS)
• Debugging infrastructure
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• React ecosystem with a test‑driven approach
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloud Formation)
• Architectural decision records

• 30 days paid annual leave
• Flexible working hours
• Flexible parental leave options
• Part‑time remote working for all staff
• Paid counselling, financial and legal advice
• Competitive salary and benefits platform

SC clearance is required for this role, with eligibility based on at least five years of continuous UK residency.

Made Tech is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.