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DWP Backend Developer – NodeJS (D)

Closing date for applications: 07/11/2022
OVERVIEW OF ROLE
Specialist role
 Developer
Summary of the work
 You will be responsible for low-level design and development of REST-APIs to support mobile applications. Responsible for writing Code following best practices: secure, performant, scalable, inline with the Department’s standards and well documented. The developer will be open to code reviews as well as reviewing their peer’s code.
Latest start date
 22/11/2022
Expected contract length
 6 Months
Location
 North West England
Organisation the work is for
 Department for Work & Pensions
Maximum day rate
 £540
ABOUT THE WORK
Early market engagement
 N/A
Who the specialist will work with
 You will be working as part of an internal multidisciplinary Mobility product team and will have access to team members, both technical and non technical, and leadership.
What the specialist will work on
 You will be working as part of an internal multidisciplinary product team. The software engineer will be responsible for the low-level design and development of a number of REST APIs to support mobile applications as part of a DWP team.
WORK SETUP
Address where the work will take place
 Manchester HUB 2 St Peter’s Square | Manchester - M2 3AA
Working arrangements
 Working arrangements will be a blend of remote working and working from the Manchester HUB site, you will spend roughly 40% of your time onsite and 60% at home.
Security clearance
 BPSS minimum security clearance
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional terms and conditions
 TBC
EVALUATION CRITERIA
How many specialists to evaluate
 3
Cultural fit criteria
 -Work collaboratively with team members, other stakeholders, users and suppliers -Take responsibility for their work -Share knowledge and experience with other team members -Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions -Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes -Challenge the status quo -Be comfortable standing up for their discipline -Can work with clients with low technical expertise
Assessment methods
Evaluation weighting
 Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 20% Price 20%
EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
  • Must be able to develop REST APIs using NodeJS
  • Must be able to develop and consume relational databases using tools such as PostgreSQL and MySQL
  • Must be able to develop and consume NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
  • Quality and Security tested before deployment
  • Use strict content security policies and guard against common OWASP attacks
  • Must be able to use Git
  • Must have experience developing REST APIs with NodeJS 16+
  • Familiar with working with a CI/CD pipeline such as GitLab
  • Familiar with consuming onward REST APIs
  • Must have experience developing for a Microservices infrastructure
  • Continuous Integration using the central GitLab source control and CI Platform
  • Must be able to develop APIs to meet the needs of the service, process and data
  • Commercial experience of using NodeJS
Nice-to-have skills and experience
  • Familiar with building APIs that will be consumed by Mobile Apps
  • Experience with AWS Lambda (serverless funcitons) and AWS API gateway
  • Familiar with deployment to AWS infrastructure
EXPRESS INTEREST
Closing date for applications: 07/11/2022

DWP Backend Developer – NodeJS (D)

Closing date for applications: 07/11/2022


Specialist role:

Developer

Location:

North West England

Organisation:

Department for Work & Pensions

Maximum day rate:

£540
FULL DETAILS / EXPRESS INTEREST HERE
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