Digital Java Developer

Digital Java Developer

About BeInspired and Team Inspire

BeInspired is a Technology, Transformation & Growth delivery partner. Through Team Inspire, we mobilise specialist consultants and multidisciplinary teams to deliver critical workstreams and complex programmes.

Role purpose

Deliver secure, resilient cloud software supporting citizen services as a Senior Software Engineer at SFIA Level 4. Work autonomously under general direction from a Senior Lead, contributing across a multidisciplinary team and taking responsibility for quality and operational stability.

Deliverables

• Develop and maintain software products supporting citizen services and contribute to their design.
• Improve operational stability, robustness and resilience of the products built.
• Contribute throughout the software development lifecycle within a multifunctional Agile delivery team.
• Build modern Java and Node.js cloud services, RESTful APIs and microservices on AWS, including Kafka event-based architectures.
• Deliver codified cloud infrastructure, Docker containerisation and robust GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply TDD, BDD, vulnerability management and appropriate deployment strategies to produce quality software.
• Resolve technical and procedural blockers within the expected scope of autonomy, investigate why processes work as they do, and confidently explain good engineering practice.
• Communicate clearly, collaborate with the team and take ownership beyond completing individual tickets.

Essential capability

• Recent applied Java development experience on cloud-based AWS environments at Senior/SFIA Level 4.
• Development of modern cloud services using Java and Node.js.
• APIs, RESTful services and microservice architecture, including building microservices.
• Kafka and event-based architectures.
• Docker containerisation.
• Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform, to build and deploy cloud infrastructure.
• Building and managing GitLab CI pipelines.
• Test-driven and behaviour-driven development (TDD and BDD).
• Working within an Agile methodology.
• Evidence of autonomous problem solving, teamwork, clear communication and informed engineering decisions.

Desirable capability

• Familiarity with delivery in UK government departments.
• Active SC clearance is preferred, but is not essential on application.

Engagement

• Positions: 3.
• Contract length: 12 months.
• Location: hybrid, with 60% office attendance at an eligible departmental hub outside London; exact hub to be agreed.
• IR35: inside.
• Security: BPSS Basic; active SC preferred on application. Successful consultants without SC will be put through SC.
• Equipment: a secure engineering MacBook is required; provision and required configuration to be confirmed.
• Interview: one short 30-minute virtual call.
• Application deadline: Wednesday 4 November 2026 at 4pm.

What happens next

Suitable consultants will be assessed against the delivery requirements and security process before client-specific information is shared.