Software Developer Backend (SFIA5)

Zaizi

United Kingdom · Full-time · Not Applicable

Zaizi is looking for a Senior Software Developer with solid technology skills, but who is also passionate about improving outcomes and the user experience. You’ll be reliable in your own deliverables but also curious about and offer innovative ideas to others in a mutli-disciplinary team.

Our work culture is inclusive, modern, friendly, and democratic. We look for bright, positive-thinking individuals with a can-do attitude. Our people enjoy challenging themselves to be the best at what they do – if that sounds like you, you'll fit right in!

Requirements

Essential skills:

Ways of working

Developing digital solutions delivered to the GDS standard
Demonstrable experience working on Agile environments
Demonstrable experience working on product development environments based on observation, experimentation and user research
Demonstrable experience working in multi-disciplinary/DevOps teams which include product owner/manager, UX designers, UX researchers, Developers, Platform engineers, etc
Demonstrable experience working on continuous improvement environments doing multiple releases every week
Team leadership and mentoring experience
Integrity / honesty

Coding And Testing

Demonstrable experience designing, coding and debugging Golang based systems
Good skills in web front end technologies such as HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
Golang
Spring Boot
Docker
Kubernetes
Atlassian
Build tools: Maven, Gradle, Ant
Familiar with source control systems, such as GIT, including branching, merging, etc.
Testing: TDD, unit testing, JUnit, Mockito, Cypress
Good knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL including data modelling, SQL scripts, store procedures
Shift to the left: Functional test automation (API testing, UI testing [cucumber, nightwatch)

Nice To Have Skills

AWS
Knowledge of Open Source BPMN workflow engines (Camunda, Activiti or Flowable)
Experience on a front-end javascript framework such as react, angular or vue.js
RedHat OpenShift for container orchestration
Knowledge of NCSC’s 14 cloud security principles.

You don’t meet all the requirements?

Studies show that women and black, Asian and minority ethnic people are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every qualification. So if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we’d love you to still apply. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role here at Zaizi.

SC Clearance

Zaizi works with UK Central Government departments on a range of projects. To be able to work on our customer projects, employees must be Security Cleared to a standard acceptable to our Government customers. Due to this restriction we can currently only recruit candidates who have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and who have lived in the UK for the last 5+ years continuously.

Key Skills

Ranked by relevance

ux cloud security javascript postgresql cucumber angular golang gradle react mysql maven cloud junit css git tdd sql ui

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Posted: Apr 27, 2026
Type: Full-time
Level: Not Applicable
Location: London
Company: Zaizi

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