Junior Software Engineer

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🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

💵 £50k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Department for Education

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5001 - 10000 employees

🏛️ Government

📚 Education

Government • Education

Department for Education is the UK government department responsible for child protection, education, apprenticeships and wider skills in England. It develops policy, publishes guidance and regulations, administers services like student loans and school funding, and oversees research and statistics related to education and learning. The department provides information and online services for students, parents, teachers, and educational institutions, and ensures compliance with national education standards.

📋 Description

• Interact with Project Managers and Data Engineers to reach the best possible technical design • Develop and implement technical workflow solutions including integrations between systems, AI-embedded workflows, and custom interface builds • Build the middleware and API connections required to ensure various SaaS systems and internal data sources communicate and integrate seamlessly • Produce clear technical documentation and playbooks to transition successful pilots into stable, Business-as-Usual (BAU) operations • Prototype and build lightweight frontends using TailwindCSS, Jinja2, and HTMX to turn high-level operational blueprints into functional digital tools. • Collaborate closely with internal teams to shadow manual processes, diagnose operational bottlenecks, and translate non-technical feedback into concrete automation requirements. • Maintain and optimize deployment pipelines using Docker and CI/CD tools to ensure rapid, reliable, and secure software delivery. • Monitor, iterate, and troubleshoot newly launched pilot tools, utilizing user feedback and performance data to make swift engineering adjustments. • Participate in code reviews and security checks, ensuring that any tool built adheres to essential data protection and identity access controls. • Involvement in and contribution towards pilot launches of 3–5 high-impact, AI-augmented workflows. • Clear documentation of design choices, implementations and user-guides for any released tooling / libraries

🎯 Requirements

• Technical builder with a foundation in Python development for backends and command line tools • Experience in designing internal APIs and consuming APIs from 3rd party platforms • Understand databases and ORMs to be able to create clean schemas, and query data • Familiarity with Git for source control, within a collaborative environment • Requirement gathering from non-technical stakeholders and translating into technical requirements • Possess a practical understanding of automation and Large Language Models (LLMs) and has experience in prompt engineering and agent-based architectures, but may also be skeptical and guarded with respect to AI and how it should be applied. • Hands-on, execution-oriented engineer who can adapt quickly based on pilot performance data and user feedback. • Understands the importance of technical security controls, such as IAM and encryption, especially when handling sensitive data or PII

🏖️ Benefits

• 27 days annual leave provision, with the option to buy/sell additional days • Hybrid working arrangements; 60% in office / 40% at home • Supportive environment for learning and development opportunities • Enhanced family leave arrangements • A free and confidential 24/7 employee assistance programme • Life Assurance • 2 days of paid volunteer days • 5% defined contribution pension scheme with Smart Pension • Cycle to Work scheme • An excellent office location in Kings X, London