Overview

This range is provided by HM Revenue & Customs. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Package total of £48,598

60% working month flex hours/days from Office

25 days holiday

CS benefits and more

Job Summary

Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it’s really like to work at HMRC.

Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential.

At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve. We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us, and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you. Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success, and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role.

Job Description

As a Software Developer, you will work within the Chief Engineering and Platform Office Platform Application Team, building high-quality, reliable, and maintainable digital services. Working as a Software Developer will give you the opportunity to further the capability of our technical community by demonstrating standard processes and sharing knowledge through community events and academy sessions.

As a member of the Software Developer community, you will be working as part of a DevOps team using Agile standard methodologies.

You will work alongside other Developers producing test driven code and advising on software engineering standard methodologies.

Collaborating across disciplines within your team, you will help ensure the applications being delivered help our stakeholders achieve their aims, meet HMRC standards and enable the organisation to achieve its strategic objectives whilst also meeting accessibility standards.

Person specification

The roles and responsibilities include, but are not restricted to:

• Developing software to meet user needs.
• Working with your team to provide estimates on user stories/task/requirements.
• Following standard methodology guidelines and helping to improve those guidelines.
• Writing clean, secure, and well-tested code.
• Coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues.
• Operating the services, you build and identify issues in production.

It is essential for you to demonstrate experience of:

• Being confident and comfortable in your experience of developing in C#, the .Net Framework, MVC for web applications including HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap.
• Knowledge of SOLID Principles, MySQL/MSSQL relational databases, database architecture, and integrity constraints & Microsoft Office Products.
• Hands on experience in the lifecycle development process, delivering products within specific timescales and engaging with key stakeholders.
• Being comfortable working with a range of team members to record system requirements and other appropriate project documentation and turning these into technical solutions.

It is desirable for you to demonstrate experience of:

• Experience of IT development using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• A knowledge of version control systems such as GIT.

Transitional Sites Information

If your location preference is for the following site, it’s important to note that this is not long-term site for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations

This site is:

• Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford.

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service

How to Apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

• A name-blind CV including your job history and previous experiences. In your CV, please provide your most recent and relevant experience on how you meet the Personal Specification. Please anonymise your CV and list under each section of Job History, what your achievements were in that role. We want to see what you did, not just a list of factual things, what impacts, outcomes and results of your experience, the how.
• A 500-word Personal Statement on how you meet the Essential Criteria providing impacts and outcomes. You will be scored on this.

Please evidence any Desirable Criteria where applicable (up to 250 words max). This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy holder where candidates have the same score at interview.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

To learn more click APPLY before role closes 11:55 pm on Monday 20th October 2025

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Design and Information Technology
• Industries
• Government Administration

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