Software Engineer (Low Income Family Tracker)

About the role We're growing our technology team and looking for a Software Engineer who believes that data and technology can empower people and change lives. This role offers the chance to shape both our engineering culture and the future of a mission driven company while developing your skills. You’ll be working predominantly on the LIFT product, which delivers billions in support to the most vulnerable households in the country every year. Designing and building out new features under our Data Engineering Lead. You’ll have the opportunity to push best practice, cost\-efficient architecture and optimise product delivery processes to ensure that LIFT continues to raise families up. Key responsibilities The role will involve a diverse range of activities, including: * Working as a full stack engineer, including front end, back end, CICD, IaC and security, from maintenance and bug fixes to design and release of new features * Helping collaboratively push the engineering team, growing your own skills, and helping the team as a whole work well with each other and the rest of the company * Investing in and improving team skills and practices through pairing, code review and 360\-reviews * Contributing to technical discussions and scoping of work internally * Ensuring your work always puts data security first to minimise the risk of security breach, potential data loss or downtime * Engaging in post\-mortems and follow\-up when things go right and wrong Your work at Policy in Practice will place you at the forefront of technology in the government space. You will be keen to develop the team’s skills across the full stack and excited by the potential for improving people’s lives. This will be a challenging role; you will be hands on, unafraid of getting stuck in and focused on great results. Job Types: Full\-time, Permanent Pay: £40,000\.00\-£55,000\.00 per year Benefits: * Casual dress * Company pension * Cycle to work scheme * Employee discount * Free fitness classes * On\-site gym * Store discount * Work from home Work Location: Hybrid remote in London EC4Y 0DT