Senior Full Stack Developer - Justice Redact

Senior Full Stack Developer - Justice Redact

Location: National*

Closing Date: 15th November

Interviews: 2/3/4 December

Grade: 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary (for more details, please read further down) **:

London: £63,343 - £73,875 (may include an allowance of up to £10,532)

National: £58,511 - £69,150 (may include an allowance of up to £10,639)

Working pattern : Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 1

Vacancy number: 23724

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Senior Full Stack Developer here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Justice Redact team. You will help us roll out a new service that will improve how personal and sensitive information is redacted from Offender Subject Access Requests (OSARs).

This role aligns against the Senior Developer role from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

OSARs are one of the Ministry of Justice’s largest sources of personal data requests. The vetting staff who process these requests currently use a range of tools and processes to identify and redact personal and sensitive information from documents. We are developing an AI‑assisted service to help them do this work more quickly, accurately and consistently, while keeping human oversight at the centre of the process.

You’ll join the Justice Redact team at an exciting stage of the service’s development. The product has been through Alpha and is moving towards Private Beta and wider operational use. You’ll help us strengthen, improve and scale the service based on feedback from the people who use it.

This is a hands‑on development role. You’ll work across the front end and back end of the service, contributing to an existing codebase and helping us build a secure, accessible and maintainable product.

A key part of the role will be building strong relationships with the OSARs operational team, understanding their needs and translating these into effective technical solutions. You will be expected to work independently, take ownership of development tasks and be comfortable working in an evolving environment where we are learning and iterating as we go.

Alongside the OSARs work, you will regularly engage with the wider Justice Redact team to understand the development of the strategic reusable redaction platform and how the two workstreams fit together. You will help ensure that what we build for OSARs can contribute to the longer‑term platform ambition.

The role is particularly suited to someone who enjoys working in an environment where requirements are evolving, problems are sometimes ambiguous, and good solutions are developed collaboratively with users and the wider team.

About Justice Redact

Justice Redact is an AI‑assisted redaction service being developed within the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). We are preparing to launch our Private Beta MVP, initially focused on Offender Subject Access Requests (OSARs) - the largest source of personal data requests in the MoJ.

The service combines AI with human oversight to help OSARs vetting teams work more efficiently, consistently and accurately when identifying and removing sensitive and personally identifiable information.

OSARs is our starting point, with the immediate priority being to roll out Justice Redact to more OSARs vetting staff and continue developing the service to support the redaction work they carry out.

The wider programme is exploring how capability developed through this work could eventually contribute to a reusable redaction service across the MoJ and potentially wider government. For this role, however, the focus will be firmly on supporting the OSARs vetting team, their redaction workflows and the continued development and scaling of Justice Redact.

You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), + 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work‑life balance.
• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best‑in‑class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e‑learning platforms.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies , with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, enhance and maintain the Justice Redact service as it moves through the Digital Delivery Lifecycle from Beta to Live.
• Build new features and functionality to support the rollout of the service to more OSARs users and respond to evolving operational needs.
• Work directly with operational users to understand problems and identify technical solutions to understand problems, test solutions and identify opportunities to improve the service
• Take ownership of development tasks and contributing to technical design, architecture and making pragmatic decisions about technical approaches.
• Work across the front end and back end, building robust, scalable and maintainable software.
• Write high‑quality, well‑tested code and contribute to automate testing, continuous integration and delivery, code reviews and other good software engineering practices.
• Work with specialist teams, including accessibility and assistive technology teams, to support accessibility testing and ensure the service works effectively for a diverse range of users.
• Collaborate closely with Data Scientists, DevOps, Product, Design, User Research and Delivery colleagues to solve problems and deliver user‑centred technical solutions.
• Contribute to the development of reusable technical components, patterns and approaches for the longer‑term redaction platform.
• Share knowledge and support the ongoing development, operation and transition of the service, including helping colleagues understand technical decisions and supporting a smooth handover as the service develops.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Person Specification

Essential:

• Delivering complex software - proven experience of delivering a complex software solution into production, including your contribution to the design, development, testing and deployment of the service.
• Full-stack engineering and technical practice – experience of developing and maintaining software across the back end and web front end, including automated testing, APIs and modern continuous integration and delivery practices.
• Collaborative problem solving – demonstrate how you have worked with a multidisciplinary team to understand a complex problem, make technical decisions and deliver a pragmatic solution, particularly where requirements or the problem was not fully defined.
• Production software development - strong experience developing production services using Typescript

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