Software Developer

On behalf of the Met Office we are looking for a Software Developer (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract. Hybrid working with occasional travel to Exeter.

This role is within the Transport Tribe who are responsible for building, maintaining and supporting systems that provide weather data services for the transport industry including Aviation, Rail and Marine.

As a Software Developer your main responsibilities will be to:

• Design, develop, test and document robust, maintainable & secure code using industry standard patterns as per features described on the backlog.
• Mentor junior software developers within the tribe providing guidance through code reviews and pair programming.
• Develop systems characterised by moderate levels of risk, impact, and both business and technical complexity.
• Choose suitable design standards, methodologies, and tools, ensuring their effective application.
• Evaluate the designs created by others to confirm the appropriate selection of technologies, efficient resource utilisation, and seamless integration of various systems and technologies.
• Apply a Modern standards approach in the tribe.
• Write, maintain and improve automation pipelines for managing CI/CD working environments.
• Identify, locate and fix faults within highly available critical operational services.
• Take an active role in supporting the tribe's technical estate during working hours.

Essential:

• An active SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks.
• Demonstrable experience of developing and testing software using Python with industry standard patterns.
• Good knowledge and experience of using AWS serverless technologies (Lambda, StepFunctions, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, APIGateway, RDS, CloudWatch) within production level IT Systems.
• Proven knowledge and experience of building and deploying software into an AWS environment using CDK, codeBuild, codePipeline, Terraform.
• Experience of using GitHub workflows.
• Experience of working in an Agile, cross functional customer-centric working environment.

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

Disability Confident: As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Met Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our 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.