B3 Senior Software Engineer (SPM) - Social Security Scotland

Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom; Hybrid

Social Security Scotland currently has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Digital Services team.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing and delivering secure, scalable digital services that support people across Scotland. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to the development of applications, APIs and integrated solutions, collaborating closely with architecture, testing, infrastructure and delivery colleagues to ensure the successful delivery of critical services.

This is an opportunity to apply your software engineering expertise to complex technical challenges, take ownership of features from design through to deployment, and help shape innovative digital solutions that make a real difference to people's lives.

A Senior Software Engineer delivers and integrates software to form a complete service.

At this role level, you will: 

• Plan and lead development on sets of related stories 
• Have an understanding of the whole system and take responsibility for teaching this to others 
• Work with other disciplines to understand what needs to be built 
• Coach and mentor colleagues 
• Operate the production services you build 
• Find ways to improve system robustness, resilience and stability

Social Security Scotland currently has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Digital Services team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing and delivering secure, scalable digital services that support people across Scotland. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to the development of applications, APIs and integrated solutions, collaborating closely with architecture, testing, infrastructure and delivery colleagues to ensure the successful delivery of critical services. This is an opportunity to apply your software engineering expertise to complex technical challenges, take ownership of features from design through to deployment, and help shape innovative digital solutions that make a real difference to people's lives.