Software Engineer - reliability and monitoring (remote)

We are growing our team at Foxglove Bright Water Authority and adding a Software Engineer whose main responsibility will be reliability and monitoring. You would join a small organisation of about 110 people, working mostly from home. What you will do • Turn requests about capital projects into simple, maintainable software. • Integrate our systems with vendors and partners through APIs. • Fix bugs quickly and add tests so they stay fixed. • Improve monitoring so we hear about problems before customers do. • Build and maintain web features used every day by our staff and customers. What we are looking for • Comfort with SQL and a relational database. • Proficiency in a mainstream language such as TypeScript, Python, Java or C#. • Care about security and privacy of the data we hold. • Two or more years of professional software development. Nice to have • Experience with capital projects. • Cloud deployment experience. Working arrangement • Contract for nine months, with a review at the end and a chance of extension. • Fully remote, with a monthly team day in Birmingham. • We reply to every applicant.