Job summary
This role qualifies for a £5000 per annum recruitment and retention payment on top of the band 7 base salary.
We're looking for an experienced developer to join our inclusive and dedicated engineering team at NICE. We're passionate about meeting user needs whilst building robust and sustainable technology solutions.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Developer you'll take ownership of developing and maintaining the digital services on your multidisciplinary product team. You'll ensure high quality code is delivered in line with project goals and delivery cycles. You'll have a working level of knowledge of the technology stack across front-end / back-end and may prefer back-end or full-stack development. You'll be familiar with modern frameworks and languages, as well as iterative practices such as test-driven development and regular production deployments. You'll help others through knowledge sharing and take the initiative to get things done.
Our Tech Stack
We're building a new web platform using full-stack React (Next.js). We also have C# for backend services, SQL and NoSQL databases. We use elasticsearch for search and we run our apps on AWS with a growing interest in cloud-native architectures.
Contract type: Permanent, full time or part-time (min 22.5 hours per week)
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Developer, you'll:
- Build maintainable, secure and performant web applications/API's to serve a variety of user and NICE needs
- Able to lead larger or more complex sets of development tasks, assessing and making decisions on solutions approaches independently
- Take responsibility for delivering high-quality code and robust solutions through test-driven development and iterative practices
- Contribute to team-level technology strategy and roadmap
- Approach all engineering work with security in mind
- Support our live services
- Be a self-directed learner
- Take ownership of work through to completion to meet user needs
- Help colleagues and mentor apprentices and more junior staff members, helping with recruitment
- Work independently with a high level of self-management
About us
The Digital, Information and Technology (DIT) directorate is a 70 strong team of digital, information and technology professionals. Our digital teams adopt a user-centric agile methodology and work in multi-disciplinary teams. Together with analytics and insight we develop and maintain NICE's suite of digital and technology services. We are playing a key role in the implementation of NICE's digital transformation programme, and also keeping our critical live services running well.
The teams in DIT design, develop and maintain NICE's suite of externally facing digital services including the NICE's website, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, BNF which together attract more than 2 million users a month.
The directorate is also responsible for NICE's internal guidance production systems including content management, authoring, and publishing systems, with a view to generate internal efficiencies and to ensure NICE takes advantage of digital innovations arising across the health and care landscape, such as machine learning and data science. As such DIT has a key role to play in keeping NICE's guidance relevant, high-quality, up-to-date, and accessible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, remote/flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment. Our development teams work mostly remotely with an expectation of working 1 day a week at our Manchester city centre office as required by line manager/team. We do support different flexible working arrangements, which is at the managers discretion.
Benefits:
- We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
- We provide a thorough induction programme
- Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
- We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
- We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Assessment
Assessment will be via a panel interview and a technical assessment for skills relevant to the role. Technical assessment will focus on the following competencies:
- Knowledge of the relevant languages and approaches involved in solution design (Front-end/Back-end)
- Knowledge of testing
- Communicating to technical and non-technical colleagues
Job description
Job responsibilities
Here at NICE we are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.
We can offer you a great place to work with good benefits, remote/flexible working, and a supportive, friendly, and inclusive environment. Our development teams work mostly remotely with an expectation of working 1 day a week at our Manchester city centre office as required by line manager/team. We do support different flexible working arrangements, which is at the managers discretion.
Benefits:
- We offer a range of benefits including the NHS pension scheme and staff discounts
- We provide a thorough induction programme
- Personal development is supported through extensive training and development opportunities
- We promote flexible working to help staff achieve a healthy work life balance
- We value equality and diversity and welcome applicants from all sections of the community
- We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria in line with the NHS Guaranteed Interview Scheme
If you feel this is the type of environment, you will enjoy working in then please feel free to contact us for more information or apply now.
To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrateall essential criteriathrough the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
Assessment
Assessment will be via a panel interview and a technical assessment for skills relevant to the role. Technical assessment will focus on the following competencies:
- Knowledge of the relevant languages and approaches involved in solution design (Front-end/Back-end)
- Knowledge of testing
- Communicating to technical and non-technical colleagues
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- A good understanding of how to build quality software applications gained through industry experience, self-study or undergraduate degree level qualification in a relevant subject
Experience
Essential
- Experience developing software solutions on AWS or Azure
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary agile team using iterative practices to software delivery
Skills
Essential
- Are a skilled practitioner with software development using C#
- A good understanding of how to write robust and maintainable code
- Are a skilled practitioner using SQL or NOSQL database technologies.
Desirable
- Knowledge of React or modern Javascript
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- A good understanding of how to build quality software applications gained through industry experience, self-study or undergraduate degree level qualification in a relevant subject
Experience
Essential
- Experience developing software solutions on AWS or Azure
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary agile team using iterative practices to software delivery
Skills
Essential
- Are a skilled practitioner with software development using C#
- A good understanding of how to write robust and maintainable code
- Are a skilled practitioner using SQL or NOSQL database technologies.
Desirable
- Knowledge of React or modern Javascript
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
