We’re looking for technologists of all kinds to join our team. If none of the other roles we have advertised fit your interests but you’d still like to work with us, this is your entry point.

About us

We’re an employee-owned agency of technology, design and delivery experts who work exclusively with public and third sector organisations to build usable and accessible digital services that fit seamlessly into user’s lives.

We help organisations like the NHS, the Department for Education, and Citizens Advice spend less money on technology, so that they can spend more on helping the most vulnerable. We aim not only to produce better services, but to radically and permanently improve people’s interactions with government to make it a better instrument of good.

Recent projects include getting teacher training materials online during COVID, supporting rehabilitation of people leaving prison and many more. We’re also proud to have supported critical national infrastructure, keeping the NHS England website online during the pandemic.

One of the things that makes us different is that we recently became employee-owned, so we are not beholden to external shareholders, and are protected against being taken over by private equity. It also means we can prioritise being an inclusive employer, reducing our impact on the planet, and working in the open.

We work remotely with people based all around the UK. We keep in touch all the time for work and for social things, and some of us get together in person in our Leeds HQ and co-working spaces in London when we can.

If you care about making public services better then dxw is the place for you!

About the role

At dxw, we develop web applications and services in multidisciplinary project teams with a range of clients in various stages of digital transformation.

You'll work with other technologists, but also designers, user researchers, delivery managers, and many other specialisms from dxw, our partners, and our clients. Sometimes you’ll work on teams with as few as two technologists, building prototypes and exploring solutions. Other times you’ll work on large projects with four or five developers and up to ten others from a wide range of other disciplines delivering production-ready software to members of the public.

As well as delivering software, you’ll participate in user research sessions, design workshops, and a number of activities carried out by your teams to help understand the problems and design and implement the right solutions.

We work in an agile way (but we don’t follow it too strictly) and hope to inspire our clients with our practices. You and your teams will work alongside our clients to write and prioritise work. You’ll take part in sprint retrospective meetings and you’ll present your work at show and tell sessions including wider stakeholders.

Usually, we work on projects for only a small part of their lifecycle and, in those cases, you’ll take part in building a shared understanding of any work done on a service before us and when we reach the end, you’ll work with your team to hand what we’ve done over to our client or other suppliers.

We try to use the right technology for the problem at hand. Here are some of the things our teams have worked with recently:

• Ruby and Ruby on Rails

• TypeScript and Express

• React

• Python and Wagtail

• PHP and WordPress

• Kotlin

• Go

• PostgreSQL or MySQL

• Git and GitHub

• AWS, Docker, and Terraform

We don't expect you to have experience with everything in that list. You can pick up particular skills and tools as you need them, and we're eager to help you learn.

As a member of the technology discipline at dxw, you’ll be involved in team and whole company away days, regular team forums and discussions, incident reviews, and other team activities.

We publish our progression framework openly. Take a look if you’re interested in what the various roles in the technology discipline look like. We’ll encourage and support your growth as much as you need, but we also won’t push you towards advancement you don’t want.

The wide salary range isn’t normally how we do things at dxw, but until we talk to you we won’t know what role you’d fit into and how senior that role would be. In most cases, our salaries are fully transparent and visible in our progression framework, and we’re working on making all of our salaries visible across the board. If you’re concerned about salary, please reach out to us at recruitment@dxw.com and we can give you an indication of what your salary would be based on the role you’re interested in.

About you

You’ve worked on at least one software project that has had contact with real users in the real world and understand some of the challenges involved in the development of live services. You enjoy variety in your work, like the idea of working on a series of different projects in different domains, and are comfortable working through fuzzy problems.

You have a solid understanding of how to write production software, a working knowledge of Git, and know or are willing to learn some of the technologies we use as you come across them on the job. You write tests as a normal part of your work and document and share the things you learn with others.

You understand the importance of secure coding practices. All technologists receive security training when they join the team.

Our public sector work means that appointments will be made subject to a background check and you must be living in and eligible to work in the UK.

Join us!

We’re committed to making our teams as diverse as we can and to creating an environment where everyone feels included and can be themselves. We welcome non-traditional paths into technology and aim to hire the right person for the role, not some combination of keywords. We especially encourage candidates historically excluded from technology to apply.