Senior Developer

Help people find the evidence they need.

Join The National Archives’ Digital Archiving team to build and run services that open government and court records for everyone. Our Access to Digital Records products increase transparency and support open justice, while setting best practice for access to digital records.

What you’ll work on:

• Access Your Records (AYR) – secure, self service access for government departments to born digital records transferred to The National Archives (currently in private Beta).
• Find Case Law (FCL) – the public site for judgments and tribunal decisions, including data feeds under an innovative licensing approach—an important step towards open justice.

Both services are growing: AYR is moving beyond MVP, and FCL is expanding with richer metadata and new publishing workflows. Your work will help us scale features while keeping services robust and secure.

What you’ll do:

• Deliver end to end features across AYR and FCL—set technical direction, write high quality code, and work with external suppliers when needed.
• Operate production services—monitor, troubleshoot, and improve resilience, robustness and stability.
• Coach and mentor developers; line manage a junior colleague.
• Champion secure engineering and consistent standards; contribute to code reviews and quality practices.
• Stay curious and share—engage with the wider dev community, evaluate new technologies, and help colleagues keep up with digital preservation developments.

What you’ll bring:

• Strong experience delivering production applications in Python.
• Solid web fundamentals (HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript) with an “open by default” mindset that makes reuse easy.
• Working knowledge of Agile/TDD; confidence with JSON, SQL, XML and different data models.
• Understanding of cloud services, design patterns, infrastructure as code, and preventing common security vulnerabilities.
• Experience operating live services and explaining complex systems clearly to others.

Nice to have: Experience building accessible interfaces (WCAG 2.2 AA) and working to the Government Digital Service Standard.

Working here:

• Hybrid working: We typically ask colleagues to be on site around 60% of the time—especially early on—so you can meet users and teammates. (We can discuss home based options for this role.)
• Security: SC clearance (or willingness to obtain) is required. This requires candidates to have been resident in the UK for at least the past three years. (Please do not apply if you have been resident in the UK for less than three years as your application will be rejected).
• Inclusive culture: We’re committed to improving the diversity of our workforce and warmly encourage applications from under represented groups

This is a full time post. However, requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, taking into account at all times the operational needs of the Department.

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