Senior Software Developer

Where: UK flexible - office space available in major UK cities but remote-ok. Occasional (once per quarter) national travel to Leeds office for hackathons team events etc.

Hours: Full time 37.5h/week

Why Change Grow Live

Change Grow Live are a health and social care charity. We support people in a huge range of difficult situations including those who use drugs and alcohol and those whose home life is affected by drugs mental health and/or domestic violence. Were the largest charity of this type in the country supporting tens of thousands of people in their own journeys. Hundreds of staff work across our organisation to support some of the most vulnerable people in society. Among the many services we offer are:

• Needle exchanges both in-person and anonymous
• Screening for blood-borne viruses
• Drug testing for fentanyl nitazene and other harmful additives
• Prescribing safer alternatives to opioids to reduce harm from street drugs
• Working with local pharmacies to check people have picked up life-saving medication
• Case workers who specialise in helping children and young people

Our technology

Weve got complex requirements: recording monitoring and reviewing information about our clients with their informed consent. Our in-house web application acts as an electronic patient record a case management system a quality management system and more - its grown over the last 15 years!

We started out with a Perl application and have improved it aggressively over the years. All our software is deployed using Docker containers using ECS; much of it using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Pulumi. Our data is stored in a serverless/autoscaling MySQL database.

Newer work is often written in TypeScript using NestJS and SvelteKit. Well use a variety of testing tools in both languages: end-to-end integration and unit testing are all covered.

We practice a genuinely blame-free culture with incidents/mistakes and always focus our conversations on improving processes not individual recrimination.

Were looking for compassionate bold open-minded software developers to help us build this software. Your efforts will empower frontline professionals carry out their life-saving work.

About you!

An ideal candidate will have some familiarity with SQL: our team write queries often!

Wed love to see candidates with some strong knowledge of HTML and CSS beyond the basics. We dont need you to know any frameworks in particular - but wed love to see great fundamentals for building on the web so you should have some experience building applications using JavaScript in the browser.

Debugging and testing experience is a must in any language - we think thats a highly transferrable skill.

Previous experience with Perl is not a strict requirement. Were happy to show you the ropes - youll be up to speed in no time!

You should really care about security. Youll be happy to openly discuss approaches which make the software as safe as possible for people who use our services.

Youll relish or at least enjoy the challenge of - diving into legacy code and documenting improving and testing the code our users rely on. When you choose to rebuild things its because you genuinely understand the previous solution and its shortcomings.

Youll be a curious generalist thinker never limiting yourself to one narrow specialty. As a team well jump from CSS to AWS infrastructure in a days work. Of course we dont know everything: its a perfect environment for learning; I dont know let me check is always a good answer.

What we will give to you:

• 25 days holiday ( bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years service Capped at 30 days.
• Paid Wellness hour each week along with a Wellness hub and Employee Assist Programme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Eye Test Vouchers
• A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping cycling gym membership cinema holidays etc.
• A friendly and supportive team
• Training career development & progression opportunities

Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.

If this sounds like you and youd like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live then wed love to talk to you

As we want to get to know you not an AI tool.Please make sure your application is written in your own words and genuinely reflects your skills experience and motivation for this role

Direct applications only we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.