Summary: The Ministry of Justice is seeking a Senior Python Developer for a 5-month hybrid contract, focusing on building and maintaining APIs and services within the Data Platform team. The role requires collaboration with various stakeholders to enhance government technology through innovative solutions. Candidates should have proven experience in Python and modern development practices, as well as a commitment to high coding standards and team collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Securely designing, building and maintaining APIs, services and systems
• Working on pre-existing codebases
• Improving the resilience and stability of software
• Applying practices to enable continuous delivery
• Informal and formal coaching and mentoring
• Supporting lead developers in building high performing teams
• Demonstrating proven experience of delivering large and complex software solutions
• Applying modern development and deployment techniques, including continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Championing software maintenance, clean code, coding standards and practices
• Writing automated tests to continuously validate work
• Thriving in a team that abides by agile software development principles
• Sharing knowledge and working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Solving problems in a systematic way

Key Skills:

• Proven experience in Python
• Experience with modern development and deployment techniques
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Circle CI or GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with application monitoring tools like Sentry
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker
• Understanding of AWS infrastructure
• Ability to write automated tests
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Commitment to high coding standards and practices
• Experience in coaching and mentoring

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: City Of London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT