Software Engineer

We are looking for a motivated, collaborative and compassionate Senior Software Engineer to join in our mission to deliver compensation to people whose life has been impacted by infected blood products. This is a rare opportunity to apply modern software engineering processes in making a tangible difference to people's lives.

We work in multidisciplinary teams at the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA), which are organised around delivering our mission and priorities:

To create a user-centred, empathetic end-to-end service at the heart of IBCA;

To provide the means of paying compensation to those eligible;

To iterate our service through starting small and scaling fast.

Joining IBCA at this stage in the lifecycle gives you a unique platform to influence tech decisions, build capability, and implement best in class engineering standards, while supporting teams in converging towards common engineering patterns and approaches. You will operate in a fast-paced environment that expects technical excellence, agility and a deep commitment to user needs.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate in a fast-paced Agile environment, with technical and non-technical colleagues;

Refine user stories into actionable items of work;

Work with interface designers and architects to develop frontend and backend services, applying a rigorous testing approach to ensure applications are functionally sound, secure, performant, and maintainable;

Ensure user interfaces are compliant with accessibility standards and perform well on all target devices;

Work with infrastructure engineers (DevOps) to design continuous integration and deployment pipelines that deliver incremental releases frequently and reliably;

Ensure the solutions follow modern engineering approaches, adhere to our engineering standards and comply with required standards, as well as fulfil functional and non-functional requirements

The Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) is a new arm's-length body set up, at unprecedented pace, to administer compensation to people whose lives have been impacted by the infected blood scandal.

IBCA will ensure payment is made in recognition of the wrongs experienced by those who have been infected by HIV, Hepatitis B or C, as well as those who love and care for them. They have been frustrated and distressed by the delays in achieving proper recognition, and we must help put this right.

We are committed to putting the infected and affected blood community at the centre of every decision we make and every step we take to build our organisation to deliver compensation payments.

IBCA employees will be public servants. If successful in this role you will be appointed directly into IBCA, on IBCA terms and conditions as a public servant.

Successful applicants will join the Civil Service Pension Scheme.

Please note that the mission of IBCA means that it is likely to be fully operational for a period of approximately up to 5 years, after which IBCA will become a smaller residual service. When IBCA's work begins to wind down, IBCA employees will receive support and practical guidance to find a new role, whether in the Civil Service, another Arm's Length Body (ALB), or an external employer.