Would you like the opportunity to work with the latest technologies reaching 50 million users? The The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer with some experience in either back end, front-end development and a passion for coding to join a team at the forefront of digital services. As a Software Engineer at DVLA, you will be an integral part of the applications team developing modern, cloud based software at scale. £37,733 plus excellent Civil Service benefits and over 28% employer pension contribution. Flexible, hybrid working from Swansea, a great place to work, live and play, with a healthy work-life balance on how and where you work.
DVLA deliver wide reaching digital services to the UK public and industry. They maintain the national record of vehicles and drivers so if you have applied for a driving licence, taxed your vehicle or completed a vehicle enquiry you would have used one of our services. As a Software Developer you will help build services that reach over 49 million people a year, working in an agile delivery team alongside lead and senior engineers to build modern, cloud-based services.
Current deliveries include:
* Two major programmes of work, modernising our drivers and vehicles services and systems.
* Entirely new services including a new customer portal, mobile digital driving licence and identity platform
* The DVLA digital payment service that helps us collect around 6 billion pounds a year.
* New versions of key driving licence services that will help us to reduce paper forms, reduce waiting times and to enable all of our customers to transact digitally.
As part of DVLA's core business services, you will work with Java and SpringBoot alongside tools like OpenAPI. No specific Java experience is needed. All you need is a passion for building clean, maintainable, and secure applications using an object-oriented language.
If you're working on the front-end, you'll be developing applications and reusable components using a combination of Ruby on Rails and React. You will also have the opportunity to build and develop our external and internal UIs, so this is an exciting opportunity to deliver far reaching, intuitive and accessible front-end systems.
DVLA also make extensive use of serverless Node.js and TypeScript using AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions and Dynamodb to build services using event-driven architecture patterns.
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