Senior Software Engineer
Civica UK Limited4 months ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Decompose ambiguous problems into clear system designs and make architectural decisions balancing immediate needs with long-term maintainability.
- Design, build, deploy, and operate production-ready software across the full lifecycle.
- Work across legacy modernization and greenfield development environments.
- Own technical decisions for complex system components and communicate trade-offs to product and engineering stakeholders.
- Define testing strategy, code quality, observability, and documentation standards for the codebase.
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering colleagues to understand problems before building solutions.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience building and shipping complex real-world software systems with meaningful end-to-end ownership.
- Strong system-design and architectural-reasoning skills, including understanding component interactions, failure modes, and system boundaries.
- Ability to decompose ambiguous problems and translate business needs into structured technical approaches.
- Strong production-quality discipline covering testing, observability, error handling, and operational readiness.
- Ability to communicate technical trade-offs to non-engineering stakeholders, write clear specifications, and build consensus.
- Ability to learn new stacks, tools, and domains quickly, with experience across more than one language or framework.
- Strong ownership and initiative, including identifying and resolving problems through production.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or similar is preferred.
- Experience evaluating AI-generated code, public-sector or related domains, legacy modernization, platform or product-led engineering environments, or familiarity with .NET, Go, React, and TypeScript is preferred.
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to 10 additional days.
- Up to 3 additional days off for volunteering.
- 5% employer-matched pension contributions.
- Income protection covering up to 75% of salary for long-term illness.
- Life assurance at 4x salary and critical illness cover of £25,000, extendable to dependents.
- Private medical insurance, health cash plan, dental insurance, employee affinity groups, and a referral bonus.
- Remote work arrangement in the United Kingdom.
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About Civica UK Limited
Civica builds cloud software and digital services for the public sector, used by local and central government, education, and health and care providers. The company sells enterprise software and SaaS platforms that support functions such as case management, records, payments, and citizen service delivery, along with implementation and managed services. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in London, it is owned by Blackstone and reports adoption by more than 5,000 public bodies worldwide.