Full-Stack Software Developer

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

Job Overview

Join our Technology Team as a Full-Stack Software Developer, where you’ll design, build, and maintain secure, end-to-end solutions supporting critical business and clinical systems. You’ll work across the full stack—developing responsive web applications, robust back-end services, and data processes that transform and present information in clear, user-friendly formats.

You’ll help deliver scalable applications and integrations connecting enterprise platforms and identity systems. This includes building RESTful APIs, automating workflows, and ensuring data is exchanged securely and reliably. Security is embedded throughout the development lifecycle, and you’ll apply secure coding practices while collaborating with infrastructure and security teams.

You’ll work with SQL databases, server-side technologies (C#, .NET, Python, or Node.js), modern JavaScript frameworks (such as React or Astro), and cloud platforms including Azure and AWS. You’ll contribute to architecture, CI/CD, monitoring, and performance optimisation to keep systems resilient and production-ready.

We’re looking for a proactive developer with strong full-stack experience, solid SQL and API knowledge, and an understanding of authentication patterns such as JWT and OAuth. If you enjoy solving complex problems, improving systems, and delivering secure digital solutions that make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

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
  
  

Further Information

How will we contact you?

• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.

If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net

If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

Checking progress on your application?

To check progress on your application, please log into your TRAC account. We aim to keep you updated on the status of your application as soon as we can.

Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.

Work Trials

Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.

We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.