Job Description
Developer
Location: National*
Closing Date: 8th October 2025
Interviews: w/c 20th October 2025
Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £49,325 - £56,050 (which may include an allowance of up to £6,725)
National: £42,914 - £51,675 (which may include an allowance of up to £8,761)
Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy number: 9616
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Developer here at Justice Digital, to be part of our friendly and diverse OPG Digital team.
This role aligns against Developer from the Government Digital and Data Framework
As a developer at Justice Digital you will be designing and building web-based services that make a genuine difference to people’s lives. As part of the OPG Digital team you will work on both public-facing and internal services that support people making important decisions about their health and financial arrangements.
The multi-disciplinary OPG Digital Team builds services to high Accessibility and Security standards, with Continuous Improvement based on user feedback at the heart of what we do. As a member of this team you’ll help us build systems that benefit from the latest industry best practices, whilst delivering working software early and often.
OPG Digital provide many opportunities for your professional growth, and in turn you will help others with their own professional development. Such activities might include pair-programming, discussions and demonstrations with wider Communities of Practice, and formal training such as apprenticeships.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Our Tech Stack
We use a range of technologies and we’re looking for people who have experience of building web applications and back-end systems in an object-oriented language, and love learning new languages and frameworks.
We use PHP and Go to write our application code, GitHub Actions and Jenkins for CI/CD, Docker for consistency between local development and deployed services, AWS for of our infrastructure, GOV.UK Design System for our web interfaces and use Macbook Pros.
For front-end development, we value a robust understanding of the underlying web technologies. We value well-maintained, open-source tools that can be used to produce semantic HTML, performant CSS and unobtrusive JavaScript or TypeScript, and we assess all our services against accessibility criteria.
We’re happy to help you learn our tech stack once you’re part of our team, and do not require an exact match in your experience of languages. Check out GitHub for a closer look at the technologies we use, and a complete list of services that we build and maintain. We subscribe to the manifesto for agile software development.
Key Responsibilities:
You will be working within one of our development teams, helping the Office of the Public Guardian improve its services to those making and using a Lasting Power of Attorney or Supervision Orders.
You will:
Work with User Researchers, Product Managers and other Developers to help refine end-user requests (‘features’) into deliverable units of work
Embrace our collaborative mindset, sharing knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team stakeholders and community, both developers and non-developers
Write automated tests for your work, to ensure future changes do not have unexpected negative impacts
Debug and fix issues when they arise
Help your team to manage technical debt, though ongoing maintenance tasks such as updating packages, spotting and sharing maintainability issues and working with the rest of the team to identify and progress solutions
Embrace and promote our diverse, inclusive culture across the development community
Support a small number of less experienced developers
Help with hiring, taking part in recruitment of other developers
If you are enthusiastic about this exciting challenge, and you’d like to join our team, please read on and apply!
Benefits
37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours
An annual £1,000 per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
We offer colleagues 10% of their time to dedicate to their own learning and growth
Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service
Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app
Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT
Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
5 days volunteering paid leave
Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym
Person Specification
Essential:
Have experience of delivering large and complex software solutions (individually or as part of a team)
Have demonstrable experience of a high level language
Have an awareness of standard technologies and practices used for web application delivery (e.g. databases, microservice architecture, backups, CDNs and search, DevOps and Unix-like operating systems)
Apply modern development and deployment techniques to your work, including Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
Champion software maintainability, clean code, coding standards and practices that make change and consistency easier
Write automated tests to continuously validate your work
Enjoy working as part of a team that abides by the spirit of the Manifesto of Agile Software Development
Enjoy sharing knowledge and working in a multi-disciplinary team
Help the team and yourself by incrementally improving our Ways of Working
Have a systematic approach to problem solving
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.
Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
How to Apply
Candidates must submit CV and Cover Letter (500 words max) which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.
In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:
Developing Self and Others
Working Together
Making Effective Decisions
A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel, which may include a task, interview held via video conference.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on “Have experience of delivering large and complex software solutions (individually or as part of a team)” and “Have demonstrable experience of a high level language” be conducted before the sift. The panel will be conducting a sift on the same criteria as the pre-sift in addition to the following from the Person Specification above:
Enjoy working as part of a team that abides by the spirit of the Manifesto of Agile Software Development
Candidates who do not demonstrate examples/details of their experience of the requirements stated under the Person Specification above in their Cover Letter will be rejected on this basis.
Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.
Use of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to aid you in writing your application, however, all examples and statements you provide must be factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. If you present others’ experiences, or fictitious (A.I. generated) experiences as your own this will be regarded as a form of plagiarism, your application withdrawn, and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Terms & Conditions
Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk
