Java Developer - HMRC - HEO

Full-time (Permanent) National Salary £37,682 - £40,705. London Salary £42,631 - £46,077
Published on 11 December 2025 Deadline 23 December 2025

• Bristol Regional Centre - 3 Glass Wharf
• Cardiff Regional Centre - Ty William Morgan
• Edinburgh Regional Centre - Queen Elizabeth House
• Leeds Regional Centre - Wellington Place
• Manchester Regional Centre - Three New Bailey
• Liverpool Regional Centre - Water Street
• Telford - Plaza 1 and 2
• Stratford Regional Centre - Westfield Avenue
• Worthing - Teville Gate House

Please note that due to workforce controls, Leeds and Stratford are only available to existing HMRC staff in these locations. HMRC staff based in Reading can also apply to move to Stratford in line with Migration path. HMRC staff based in 100PS can also apply to move to Stratford.

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We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you.

Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role.

The Role will provide great opportunities for an experienced software developer to work in the Engineering team within CDIO Border & Trade Delivery Group with also the opportunity to grow their career by receiving comprehensive professional training in relevant and/or emerging technologies.

About CDIO, Borders & Trade (CDIO B&T) Delivery Group

CDIO Borders and Trade supports the HMRC Borders andTrade group delivering IT projects that enable HMRC's wider customs strategy and policies. We design, manage and maintain the IT services that support customs and international trade activities.

Our team is made up of specialists in delivery, business analysis, engineering, and live service support. We work closely with stakeholders across HMRC to ensure our IT systems meet their needs.

As a Java Developer you will be a key member of Development Guild within CDIO B&T Engineering team where part of your main task will be developing, designing and providing maintenance support of software products that meet our clients need by closely working in collaboration with other delivery groups and stakeholders throughout IT service development and delivery life cycles.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Proposing, designing and building complex program solutions from supplied requirement specifications.
• Defining the software modules that comprise an integration build.
• Producing a build definition for generation of the software.
• Collaborating with other stakeholders in reviewing supplied requirement specifications.
• Managing competing priorities and documenting deliverables in accordance with agreed standards.
• Designing, implementing and operating controls and management strategies to maintain the security, confidentiality and integrity of information systems.
• Reporting task outcomes to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.
• Support and maintenance of live services developed on legacy and/or modern technologies.
• Planning, designing and conducting tests of programs to deliver error free systems.
• Coaching, mentoring and/or line management of junior colleagues.

The post holder will work normal office hours and during the first three months they might be required to occasionally attend the office outside of normal working hours (e.g. to support software releases) and/or shadow a colleague already providing on call support on an ad hoc basis. On completion of 3 months in post, the post holder might then be required to provide part of a 24/7 on call Rota.

• Proficiency in the Java programming language and compatible technologies.
• Experience of Java software design and build to specification of complex programs within a technical project team.
• Ability to write clean, re usable, secure code following best practice, standard and principles.
• Experience of developing within Java Frameworks (e.g. Spring etc).
• Experience of SQL and/or NoSQL database applications (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB etc).
• Experience of using Java Persistence API (e.g. Hibernate etc).
• Good understanding of software development methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall etc).
• Experience of using TDD and/or BDD frameworks to develop and validate solutions (e.g. JUnit, Cucumber, Mockito, Rest assured etc).
• Familiarity with source code control and CI/CD tools (e.g. Git, Jenkins etc).
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex software problems and incidents.
• Effective communication skills and a proactive approach to learning and adopting emerging technologies.
• Can demonstrate leadership and mentoring skills.
• Experience of supporting and maintaining software in a live environment.
• Experience of developing in cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure etc).
• Good knowledge of developing RESTful web services and/or microservices.
• Good knowledge of application containerisation (e.g. Docker etc).

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it's important to note that these are not long term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

This site is:

• Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.