Job summary
- Main area
- Information Systems Developer
- Grade
- Subject to banding
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 828-PROVIDE3958
- Employer
- Provide CIC
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 900 The Crescent
- Town
- Colchester
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Full-Stack Software Developer
Subject to banding
Job overview
Main duties of the job
Build Secure Full-Stack Solutions: Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end web applications and back-end services that power live systems and data workflows.
Lead Technical Delivery: Take ownership of projects from concept to release—defining architecture, coordinating delivery, and ensuring secure, scalable outcomes.
Develop APIs & Integrations: Create robust RESTful APIs and integrations with enterprise platforms, identity systems, and third-party services.
Create Modern User Interfaces: Build responsive, accessible web applications using modern frameworks such as React or Astro.
Maintain Data & Cloud Platforms: Manage SQL databases and cloud-hosted environments (Azure/AWS), ensuring performance, resilience, and security.
Embed Security by Design: Apply secure coding practices, conduct reviews, and work closely with security teams to protect sensitive systems and data.
Troubleshoot & Optimise: Diagnose complex cross-stack issues, improve reliability, and continuously enhance system performance.
Collaborate & Mentor: Work closely with technical and business teams, act as a senior escalation point, and support the development of junior colleagues.
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for a full and comprehensive list of the job description. Thank you for your interest in working with Provide.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in a related subject or equivalent experience within a development team or department.
Desirable criteria
- ITIL foundation certificate or higher
Experience
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of database architecture and querying best practice using SQL.
- Strong programming experience using languages such as Python, JavaScript, C# or Rust
- Experience of working with teams developing high availability web-services and web-based apps
- Experience with API integrations including REST, JSON and other data integration toolsets
- Experience in developing and deploying to Cloud environments such as Azure
Desirable criteria
- Fullstack web development experience
- Familiarity with frontend web frameworks such as Astro or React
- Familiarity with backend web frameworks such as Express, FastApi and Axum
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Daniel Flint
- Job title
- Senior Software Developer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 303 9999
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