All the relevant skills, qualifications and experience that a successful applicant will need are listed in the following description.
Help build and operate reliable, scalable and secure digital services that support UK businesses and trade . Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. Whilst the team primarily develops in Python, we welcome applications from experienced backend developers with Java, C#, Go or similar object-oriented programming backgrounds, with experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems. This permanent Grade 7 role can be based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, with hybrid working of 2-3 days per week in the office, flexible working options and a salary of £67,547 to £83,778 (for London), including allowances, dependent on location and technical skills assessed at interview.
Build Reliable Digital Services at BIST:
BIST's Digital, Data and Technology directorate develops and operates the tools and services that support the organisation's mission. As part of a multidisciplinary agile team, you will design, build and run platform services that underpin critical digital products, helping development teams improve observability, monitoring, CI/CD and service resilience.
As a Senior Backend Engineer (Site Reliability), you will:
* Design, build and operate reliable, secure and scalable cloud platform services supporting critical digital products.
* Develop and maintain platform tooling, automation, observability, monitoring and CI/CD capabilities.
* Build software solutions using Python and modern engineering practices.
* Write clean, maintainable code and infrastructure-as-code solutions to support service delivery.
* Embed Site Reliability Engineering principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and continual service improvement.
* Support live service operations, incident management, troubleshooting and platform resilience.
* Collaborate with engineers, architects, product teams and stakeholders whilst coaching and mentoring colleagues.
Essential Skills for the Senior Backend Engineer (Site Reliability) include:
* Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language. xwwtmva
* Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, focusing on reliability, performance and user outcomes.
* Experience building and supporting applications
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Senior Backend Engineer in Whitehall employer: Inspire People
Join the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) as a Lead Site Reliability Engineer and be part of a mission-driven team dedicated to building reliable and scalable digital services that support economic growth across the UK. With a flexible hybrid working culture, generous annual leave, and a strong focus on employee development, BIST fosters an inclusive environment where you can thrive while making a meaningful impact on critical government services. Enjoy the benefits of a Civil Service pension, tailored learning opportunities, and a collaborative atmosphere that encourages innovation and continuous improvement.
