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September 10

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Civica US

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Government • SaaS • Education

Civica US is a global leader in public sector software, providing solutions that help deliver critical services for citizens around the world. The company's software is utilized by over 5,000 public bodies globally, supporting more than 100 million citizens. Civica's products are designed to serve government departments, justice and court systems, education institutions, and health and care providers. Their capabilities include cloud and digital services, data analytics, financial management, people management, and governance risk compliance. As a GovTech company, Civica US specializes in creating software that improves outcomes and efficiencies across various public sector domains, aiding in administrative processes, data management, and citizen engagement.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🏛️ Government

☁️ SaaS

📚 Education

📋 Description

• Define and evolve product engineering practices, tooling, and shared application architecture patterns. • Lead technical discovery, prototyping, and architectural alignment across teams contributing to our new platform. • Provide hands-on support to unblock teams, improve implementation quality, and resolve cross-team technical challenges. • Collaborate with engineering managers and product leads to shape delivery flow, team responsibilities, and ownership boundaries. • Act as a mentor and technical coach to engineers across the organisation. • Contribute to long-term architectural decisions that optimise for modularity, resilience, and operability. • Facilitate healthy architectural debate, consensus-building, and design governance. • Navigate ambiguity and help co-create the organisation’s path toward consolidated, high-quality delivery.

🎯 Requirements

• Technical depth and breadth: Strong expertise in building, scaling, and evolving modern web applications—ideally across both front-end and back-end domains (e.g. React, Golang, cloud-native platforms). • System design & problem-solving: Demonstrated ability to design and evolve architecture in complex, real-world systems. • Influence & collaboration: Builds trust across teams, facilitates alignment, and helps teams move forward without needing formal authority. • Delivery orientation: Understands how to balance engineering design with delivery constraints and business priorities. • Organisational thinking: Shapes engineering patterns that scale across teams and time—familiar with enabling or platform team models. • Nice to have: Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architecture. • Nice to have: Familiarity with modern CI/CD, observability, and quality automation practices. • Nice to have: Exposure to legacy system modernisation, refactoring, or product migration strategies. • Nice to have: Awareness of Team Topologies, Domain-Driven Design, or similar models for designing software and teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• ✔ 25 Days Annual Leave + bank holidays – plus the option to buy up to 10 extra days! • ✔ Days of Difference – Up to 3 extra days off for volunteering. • ✔ Pension Contributions – 5% employer match to support your future. • ✔ Income Protection – Up to 75% salary cover for long-term illness. • ✔ Life Assurance – 4x salary tax-free lump sum. • ✔ Critical Illness Cover – £25,000 lump sum (extendable to dependents). • ✔ Private Medical Insurance – Fast access to private healthcare. • ✔ Health Cash Plan – Claim back physio, therapies & more. • ✔ Dental Insurance – Cover for routine & emergency care. • ✔ Affinity Groups – Join employee-led communities. • ✔ Bounty Bonus – Refer a friend & get rewarded.