Developer

Salary £52,000 – £61,000 (FTE), dependent upon experience, 37.5 hour week. Contract Permanent, full-time or part-time. Flexible working arrangements are available.

Location: Anywhere in the UK, with some national travel required to meet teams and clients. Office locations are London and Leeds.

Application deadline: 03/04/2026

Benefits include:

• Interest-free season ticket loans, electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave depending on your situation
• Pension with up to 5% matching contribution from dxw
• Flexible working to support your wellbeing and personal commitments
• Macbook and home office setup budget

Who we are:

We’re an employee-owned agency of technology, design and delivery experts who work primarily with public and third sector organisations to build usable and accessible digital services that fit seamlessly into users’ lives. We help organisations like the NHS, the Department for Education, and Citizens Advice spend less money on technology, so that they can spend more on helping the most vulnerable. We aim not only to produce better services, but to radically and permanently improve people’s interactions with government to make it a better instrument of good.

About the development team:

You’ll be a part of our technology team, working closely with designers, product managers, user researchers, and others. Our development team is currently 19 people from a wide range of backgrounds. This is a hands-on software development role. You’ll build web applications and services in multidisciplinary project teams with a range of clients in various stages of digital transformation. As well as delivering software, you’ll participate in user research sessions, design workshops, and other activities to help identify problems and then create and implement the right solutions.

About you:

You want to deliver public digital services that improve the lives of the people who need them. You’ve worked on at least one software project that has had contact with the public and understand some of the challenges involved in the development of live services. We work with five main stacks: Ruby on Rails, Python, .NET, Kotlin. You’ll need to be comfortable with at least one of these, and ideally familiar with more than one. You have a good understanding of how to write production software, working knowledge of version control software like Git, and know or are willing to learn some of the other technologies we use as you need them on the job. You write tests as a normal part of your work and document and share the things you learn with others.

Working with us:

We have people based all around the UK. Some of us work almost entirely remotely, whilst others get together in person in our Leeds and London (King’s Cross) offices. We provide MacBooks and use Slack and Google apps to work together. Sometimes you’ll be using a device provided by a client and using Microsoft tools. We’re committed to making our teams as diverse as we can and to creating an environment where everyone feels included and can be themselves. We welcome non-traditional paths into technology and aim to hire the right person for the role, not some combination of keywords. We especially encourage candidates who have historically been excluded from technology to apply.

How to apply:

We use a system called Applied for hiring to try and remove as much bias from selecting someone as we can. You don’t need a CV or cover letter. Instead, we’ll ask you to provide written answers to a few short questions related to the work you’d do on the job. Our tech team will review them without knowing who you are, and if you score well we’ll invite you to a structured interview, and then a work simulation (no whiteboard exercises!).