Software Engineer

Technology sits at the heart of everything we do at MI5. We're looking for Software Engineers with multiple years of experience who are prepared to take on a more senior role within a multi-disciplinary product team. You’ll develop solutions, mentor less experienced colleagues whilst working alongside a range of technical specialists including Product Owners, Business Analysts, Delivery Managers, Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers, to build and run secure applications and products. You’ll be using agile methodologies to deliver products that are core to MI5’s operations, and you’ll be using cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure as well, supporting on-premises platforms and long-established technologies and frameworks. You’ll share our collective responsibility to keep the country safe and be keen to constantly improve yourself and your team, taking on ownership of large problems, breaking them down and working with the team to deliver new features throughout the engineering lifecycle. You’ll support the products owned by the team, working with users to identify and fix defects (providing on-call support if necessary) developing automated tests to maintain the assurance of our products and deploy through continuous integration pipelines. You’ll support and mentor less experienced colleagues and help them to understand what great engineering looks like, promoting best practises, participating in our engineering community and guilds, and encourage cross-organisation initiatives to help build our community of engineers. Many of our engineers work directly within our mission teams and all engineers have a unique opportunity to see first-hand how their work contributes to UK national security, while remaining part of a supportive and inclusive technical profession.