Junior FullStack Software Engineer in Trafford

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. Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation.

As a Junior Software Engineer at Informed Solutions, you’ll play a key role in designing, building, and delivering digital services that tackle real-world engagements in the public sector. Your work will help improve outcomes for citizens and communities, contributing to a healthier, safer, and more sustainable UK.

You’ll be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team, working alongside engineers, user-centred designers, data specialists, and delivery managers. You’ll have opportunities to expand your expertise, gain hands-on experience with cloud and modern software engineering practices, and build a strong foundation for a career in digital transformation.

As a Junior Software Engineer, you will:

• Deliver software components: Take responsibility for building and supporting small-to-medium components or services across the full software lifecycle, from design and development through to deployment, operation, and improvement.
• Work with Lead and Senior Engineers: Understand and implement architectural patterns, design decisions, and coding standards, producing clear and maintainable documentation.
• Support delivery planning: Work with your 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, and help ensure solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Take opportunities to grow your technical skills: Learn from peers and senior colleagues, and apply new knowledge to improve delivery and team effectiveness.

Experience working as a software engineer 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 working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban) and following practices such as TDD, CI/CD, and iterative delivery. An understanding of cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and related tooling for deployment and monitoring. Experience contributing to public sector digital services or complex organisational contexts. Familiarity with agile delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, or Azure DevOps. Enthusiasm for continuous learning, professional development, and contributing to team practices and knowledge sharing.

Able to work effectively in environments where you can adapt to innovative practices involving uncertainty, change, and agile working. Ability to manage competing priorities and your time so you can deliver high-quality work within deadlines. Good judgement and decision-making in complex environments where uncertainty, ambiguity, and risk must be collaboratively managed by working supportively alongside others.

We appreciate that this workplace culture and the level of variety won’t suit everyone. These shared foundations are important to team cohesion, performance, and mutual personal support. Our benefits package complements our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

• InformedACADEMY™: We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan: We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 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
• 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
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and co-design world-class digital services that solve complex business and safety-critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important. Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.