Software Engineers - B3

Job description

The Digital Directorate is building a mobile app and associated services to allow the people of Scotland to access public services via their mobile phones. The app will provide users with a convenient, accessible way to perform tasks, access personalised information, and interact with services directly from their smartphones, making best use of inherent mobile phone capabilities such as push notifications. The software engineering team that develops those services, and the companion web application, builds and runs applications on AWS using Kubernetes and Lambda. Backend services are written in Java, with Node JS and Typescript used for front-end applications. Persistence is provided by S3, DynamoDB, and Redis. We use Grafana/Prometheus for metrics and dash-boarding, and Gitlab for CI/CD. The apps themselves are built in React Native. Responsibilities: You manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets. You support specific activities to improve development processes. You identify obvious deficiencies in development processes. You participate in the information security process. You design and implement embedded security controls in solutions a...