Senior Full Stack Developer

Salary: £54,000 up to £62,000 dependent upon experience

Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time

Security Level: SC

Visa Restrictions: This position does not offer visa sponsorship

 

We are the UK's aviation and aerospace regulator and recognised as a world leader in its field. Our activities are diverse, enabling the aviation industry to meet the highest safety standards, and we pride ourselves on our ability to adapt to the constantly evolving aviation environment.

 

The Role

 

Are you looking for a role where you can make a real difference? Do you want to be part of a new and exciting transformation?

 

Join us here at the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) where you will be part of Software Engineering developing, testing, and supporting web applications within a multi-disciplinary product team, providing technical skills that traverse both front and back-end development disciplines. The role operates within a DevOps CI/CD environment delivering new and innovative solutions for the CAA.

 

You will work within an agile SCRUM project team and produce products using technologies such as React, NextJS, and C# that integrate into products across the Microsoft stack like SharePoint and Dynamics 365. The applications will be deployed to the Microsoft Azure platform using automated build and deploy processes. You will work with a wide range of CAA colleagues and external suppliers and will be responsible for ensuring the solutions you work on meet development principles and technical standards.

 

The role requires a combination of technical design skills and delivery across the full project life cycle. Strong engagement and collaborative skills are required to provide the capability of dealing directly with product owners in the business.

 

The project we are recruiting for is a green field flagship project to develop a key systems that spans the organisation and provides support for aviation safety auditing, certification and approval systems.

 

About You

 

We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic Full Stack Developer who can produce high-quality solutions, someone who is a team player and is able to communicate at all levels within the organisation.

 

You will be able to operate independently and within a team structure and be able to remain delivery focused using your initiative or under direction. You will have knowledge and experience of developing solutions with tech stacks that match the CAAs as described below:

 

Frontend Skills (Strong UI development, performance optimisation, accessibility)

• Tech Stack: React, Next.js

 

Backend Skills (API development, secure coding, integration logic)

• Tech Stack: .NET (C#)

 

Azure Hosting & Infrastructure

• Services:
• Static Web Apps/App Services
• App Service Plans
• Storage Account
• Azure SQL
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Front Door + WAF
• Private Endpoints
• Defender for Cloud
• Application Insights
• Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Monitoring and Logging
• Security and Networking

 

Integration Experience

 

(Experience with external APIs, event-driven architecture, secure data flow)

 

• Event driven integration using Azure Function App and Azure Service Bus
• Integration with external services.
• Secure coding practices
• REST API development
• Gov.UK Pay (or other payment providers, secure payment gateway integration)
• Experience with Dynamics 365 (D365) API connectors
• SharePoint Online integration
• Web App and SQL