Junior Software Developer, EO, FTC 1 year, Liverpool/ Newport


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£30,734 to £30,734 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	L20 7HS
Job type:	Temporary
Posting date:	15 Oct 2026
Closing date:	5 Nov 2026

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Summary

Job Purpose

In this role, you will deliver software components while working under supervision to meet user needs following best practice guidelines and helping to improve those guidelines. You will be able to develop skills while working under supervision to deliver stories in a multidisciplinary team within an agile or waterfall framework depending on the needs of the project. You will support colleagues as part of a collaborative DDaT directorate as well as operating as a partner to the wider Charity Commission to support the achievement of the shared goals and objectives and delivering a successful Commission strategy. You will understand and be proficient in different types of testing. You will also be aware of but not responsible for security and maintaining Charity Commission systems, identifying issues in production while meeting the Government Service Standard and the Technology Code of Practice.

Key Responsibilities:

Availability and capacity management, ensuring services are available with as little downtime or disruption as possible, and that we have sufficient resources to support emerging business needs. You will be able to explain availability and capacity management processes

Information security, Information security involves maintaining the security, confidentiality and integrity of information. You will be able to use information security practices and available security controls to contribute to protecting solutions and services

Modern development standards, Modern development standards involve using the latest technologies and best practices to improve the quality of the software development process.

You will be able to:

explain the most important principles of modern development standards and how they apply to your work
apply modern development standards principles under guidance

Programming and build, design, code, test, correct and document simple programs or scripts under the direction of others

Prototyping, Prototyping a service or product involves exploring, testing and sharing different concepts before committing to the final design.

You will be able to:

understand when to use a specific prototyping technique or method
show the value of prototyping to your team

Service support, Service support involves fixing service faults and maintaining the underlying infrastructure, ensuring processes are in place to keep the service running efficiently.

You will be able to

help fix service faults following agreed procedures
carry out maintenance tasks on service support infrastructure

Systems design, Systems design involves creating the specification and design of systems to meet defined business needs.

You will be able to

assist as part of a team in the design of components of larger systems

Systems integration,Systems integration involves identifying points of connection between different systems and processes, or opportunities to combine them, and designing how the components communicate.

You will be able to

explain the process and principles of integrating systems.
describe challenges of designing, building and testing interfaces between systems

User focus, User focus involves understanding the user needs to develop a detailed understanding of the problems that need to be solved.

You will be able to

show an awareness or understanding of user experience analysis and its principles

explain the purpose of user stories and the focus on user needs

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