Benefits include Civil Service Pension (avg. 21% employer contribution), Potential Flexible Working + 37 days leave (inc public holidays)
Location: Peterborough
Fixed term 3 years
Job Ref: 2017/09
We are a small, innovative, distributed team of developers trying to make a real difference to nature conservation in the UK.
We need a full stack developer/engineer with experience in making web-based, data-focussed services and applications.
JNCC is the statutory advisor to the UK government on nature conservation.
Successful applicants will get
- Twenty-five days leave
- Twelve days public and privilege holiday per year
- The opportunity to join the Civil Service pension arrangements, which include a valuable range of benefits
- Occupational sick pay scheme
- Flexible working practices
- Family-friendly policies
- Enhanced maternity and paternity entitlement
- Employee Assistance Programme (a free, confidential service offering expert advice, invaluable information, specialist counselling and support)
We use technologies like Typescript, Node.js, React, Docker, Luigi, Python, PostGres/PostGIS, Geoserver, SQL Server (making increasing use of spatial datatypes and analysis), C#, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, MVC, Java, Spring, Jersey, Jackson, Javascript, jQuery, Mapserver, FME, QGIS and ArcGIS. We support one significant C# application and one significant Java/Scala application.
We are Open Source by default. We use Github (https://github.com/jncc), AWS and Docker. We develop on Ubuntu and Windows.
This post is open to UK, British Commonwealth, and European Economic Area (EEA) Nationals and certain non EEA members.
For more information about the competencies and the post visit our website at http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/jobs where you can download the details and find out more about our work.
CVs should be sent to recruitment@jncc.gov.uk by 09:00 on 10 April 2017.
A screening interview will be conducted by phone with selected candidates during the week commencing 10 April 2017.
Following this the successful candidates will then be invited to attend an interview on 28 April 2017, at Monkstone House in Peterborough. Please note that the interview date may be subject to change
