Senior Backend Engineer

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 £63,824 to £80,158 (up to £83,778 for London), including allowances, dependent on location and technical skills assessed at interview. Build Reliable Digital Services at BISTBIST''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 ..... full job details .....