Software Developer

£35,663 per year, you will also receive an additional Recruitment and Retention allowance of £3,500 per annum, making your total salary £39,163. Candidates based in Yeading will receive the London Weighting allowance of £4,000.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: Yes

Closing Date: 07/05/2026

About this job

This will be a key role in the design, build, support, implementation and improvement of digital services, products, and platforms across DVSA. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team using Agile delivery methodologies, delivering solutions that meet user needs.

You will be committed to quality and will use quality software engineering techniques within the team, such as code review, design review, reusability of code, refactoring, automated testing, and use of standards.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.

25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays, a privilege day for the King's birthday, flexible working options encouraging a great work-life balance.

Responsibilities

• Build digital services and software solutions to serve a variety of user needs and comply with the Digital by Default service standard.
• Software development using Agile methodologies (particularly Scrum) as part of a dynamic team of developers, testers, business analysts, product owners and scrum masters to deliver quality software solutions.
• Develop solutions that put the user and user experience first.
• Create a culture of collaboration between development teams and business partners to establish and enable accelerated delivery models.

Additional Info

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.