Senior Software Developer in Web Development (1937)

Salary - £45,894 - £54,952 (plus, a £5,000 Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3-month qualifying period)
Location - Dundee or Glasgow
Hours - 35 hours per week
Closing Date - 18th August 2025 at 23:55
Reference - 1937
Employment Type - Permanent

Overview
Join Social Security Scotland's Chief Digital Office as a Senior Software Developer in Web Development. You will collaborate in a multidisciplinary team to deliver software components that support our vital social security systems.

Our software developers are deployed in Agile teams focusing on product development, live service, and continuous improvement. We believe in supporting our team members' growth and development and you will have access to formal training courses and team learning projects. This ensures that you can continuously learn and enhance your skills.

You will sit within Social Security Scotland’s Chief Digital Office (CDO), which has a remit to provide infrastructure and systems to support both the wider social security programme and Social Security Scotland.

A Senior Developer 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 more junior colleagues.
• Operate the production services you build.
• Find ways to improve system robustness, resilience and stability.

DDaT Pay Supplement
This post is part of the Scottish Government Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT) profession and as a member of the profession you will join the professional development system. This post currently attracts a £5,000 annual DDAT pay supplement, applicable after a 3 months competency qualifying period. The payment will be backdated to your start date in the role. Pay supplements are reviewed regularly and there is one currently underway. Changes will be communicated when the review is concluded.

Main Duties

• Manage web applications to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
• Identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.
• Participate in the information security process.
• Design and implement embedded security controls in solutions and services.
• Competently apply a modern standards approach and guide others to do so.
• Collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications.
• Use the agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Participate in team prototyping.
• Advocate for the use of prototypes and testing with others.
• Establish design patterns and iterate them.
• Use a variety of prototyping methods and choose the most appropriate.
• Identify, locate and fix faults.
• Design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
• Select appropriate design standards, methods and tools, and ensure they are applied effectively.
• Review the systems designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Co-ordinate build activities across systems.
• Understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities.
• Collaborate with user researchers and represent users internally.
• Champion user research to focus on all users.
• Prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so.
• Offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use.

Further Information
Social Security Scotland are a Disability Confident Employer. We will consider and implement any reasonable adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment process and during the course of your employment, should you be successful in securing a post. If you feel you may require assistance with any part of our recruitment process, please contact us at Recruitment@socialsecurity.gov.scot.

More information about the role and how to apply is available at: Careers at Social Security Scotland