Senior Developer

Permanent
Full time
35 hours
£50,694 - £59,640 depending on experience
Hybrid - home based and Birmingham
Corporate Functions (HR, Finance, Project Management, IT, Risk and Audit)

Are you passionate about delivering quality digital services to customers? Are you an experienced Software Developer who wants to develop their skills and step into a growing team?

Here at the Solicitors Regulation Authority, we are looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our development team. You will lead the team ensuring a high quality of code while ensuring best practices are followed and improved. 

You will focus on:

  • The development and design of both internal and externally facing applications – websites, APIs, and modular integration components. You will be key to setting up standards, principles, and ways of working and how we achieve this in the most effective manner
  • Oversight of third-party code delivery, including review of code, pull requests and technical documentation.

Reporting into the Software Development Manager, you will use your experience to help shape our methodologies, processes, and drive adoption into the team. 

What we can offer you

  • Opportunity to help shape the software development processes
  • Showcase your software development skills and technical capability
  • Develop strong working relationships at all levels to make sure that services are in line with our standards
  • Work collaboratively with other areas of our organisation to deliver key projects
  • Additional 3% of annual basic salary for you to choose the benefits that best suit your lifestyle and personal situation
  • Pension - We will contribute 1½ - 2 times your contribution, up to 12.25%. So, if you contribute 7%, you will enjoy the maximum combined contribution of 19.25%
  • Hybrid working consisting of home working and an office presence of one or two days a week in our offices in The Cube in Birmingham.

What we are looking for 

  • Technical architecture and design experience
  • Knowledge and experience in Azure, C#, .NET Framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET, Web API,
    xUnit, JavaScript frameworks including Angular and Vue.js
  • Knowledge and experience in messaging technologies
  • Understanding of Agile methodologies
  • Ability to work collaboratively and have a result orientated approach
  • Strong relationship management and communication skills with stakeholders at all levels
  • To up skill, coach, and mentor team members to ensure that they are motivated, engaged, and optimal

Useful information

  • There is a full role profile attached to the bottom of this advert on our website
  • Salary range for a Birmingham based role is £50,694 - £59,640 and an offer will be dependent on demonstrable knowledge, skills and experience the successful candidate can bring to the role
  • This is a hybrid role and will be based in our Birmingham or London office 1 to 2 days a week, and from home the rest of the week
  • If you have any questions that aren’t in this advert or on our website, please contact us via: recruitment@sra.org.uk

To apply

Please click ‘apply’ to complete the online application form and

upload a CV and cover letter, addressing how you meet the requirements outlined in this advert and the attached role profile.


To find out more about the recruitment and selection process and how to make the most of your application, please visit our jobs pages.

Closing date for applications is Thursday 20 October at 23:55

The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards.
We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
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Vacancy closing date: 20/10/2022, 23:55

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.

Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.

 We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.

This opportunity is closed to applicants.