Software Engineer
Company
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/24/2025
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Description
Grade C: £32,471 (National Framework) or £38,143 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £581 per annum for those working from home.
Contracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week.
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Home-based
Closing Date: 31 July 2025 at 11.59pm
Make a difference
Every role at CQC contributes to our mission. If you’re looking for a new role in Technology that gives a true sense of meaning and purpose, then you’ve found it! As a Software Engineer, you’ll help build and maintain the digital tools that support our work to improve health and care services across England.
Picture This
Imagine developing digital services that empower CQC to protect and improve the quality of care across England. As a Software Developer, you’ll help internal teams access critical data faster, reduce manual workloads, and build systems that support transparency and public trust in health and social care.
Over The Past Year, You Might Have
The Role
As part of our agile development team, you’ll contribute to building and maintaining secure, scalable, and user-focused applications. You’ll work across the full software development lifecycle, using a modern Microsoft stack.
In This Role, You Will
Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through our benefits scheme:
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We will be looking for specific skills, knowledge and experience in your application form:
We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate individual adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request an adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: [email protected].
To progress your application, you’ll need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Without valid right to work you won’t be eligible for the role. We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. Some roles may also be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.
Next steps
If you apply, you’ll need to create a profile and complete an online application form. Your application will be completely anonymous. Please see our information for applicants for more details on the process. We contact every applicant to let them know the outcome of their application, so you will hear from us whether or not you are shortlisted.
You can read the full details of the role in the Job Description
If you’d like an informal chat about the role contact – Paul Cousins; Principal Engineer: [email protected] For general enquiries, please email [email protected].
The Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including:
Equity for all
We know job descriptions can feel intimidating. Research shows they can cause some people to doubt whether they’re a good fit. This happens more often to people from underrepresented groups (e.g. ethnic minority backgrounds). If this role interests you, we encourage you to apply. Your unique perspective, skills, and experience could be exactly what we need.
We want every candidate to feel supported and able to do their best. If you need adjustments to our process, we’ll work with you to remove any barriers. Visit our accessibility page for more on this. If you’d like to chat, please contact [email protected]. Please note, if you have previously informed us of adjustments you need for interview or within your role these are not carried over and must be discussed for each individual application you make.
We promote a workplace where fairness, respect and inclusion are a priority. Diverse teams make our work better, help us deliver our mission and make our culture stronger. See our ED&I page for more about this.
We Welcome Applications From Everyone, And Colleagues Can Find Support And Community Among Our Many Employee Networks. This Includes People Of Any
We are guided by our core values, which shape our work and our culture.
Excellence – being a high-performing organisation.
Caring – treating everyone with dignity and respect.
Integrity – doing the right thing.
Teamwork – learning from each other to be the best we can.
We are a disability confident employer and a carer confident employer.
A Note on AI
About
AI tools can be great for research and refining ideas, but we want to learn about you. If you use AI or Chatbots to help you with your application, keep these points in mind:
Contracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week.
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Home-based
Closing Date: 31 July 2025 at 11.59pm
Make a difference
Every role at CQC contributes to our mission. If you’re looking for a new role in Technology that gives a true sense of meaning and purpose, then you’ve found it! As a Software Engineer, you’ll help build and maintain the digital tools that support our work to improve health and care services across England.
Picture This
Imagine developing digital services that empower CQC to protect and improve the quality of care across England. As a Software Developer, you’ll help internal teams access critical data faster, reduce manual workloads, and build systems that support transparency and public trust in health and social care.
Over The Past Year, You Might Have
- Delivered features that improved the efficiency of inspection and reporting processes.
- Created tools that enabled and supported public access to care quality data.
The Role
As part of our agile development team, you’ll contribute to building and maintaining secure, scalable, and user-focused applications. You’ll work across the full software development lifecycle, using a modern Microsoft stack.
In This Role, You Will
- Build and maintain applications
- Deliver high-quality APIs and services Design and implement RESTful APIs that integrate with internal and external systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Collaborate across disciplines Work closely with product owners, DevOps engineers, QA specialists, and analysts to deliver features that meet user needs and regulatory requirements.
- Contribute to DevOps and CI/CD Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, identify and resolve issues quickly, and participate in code reviews, testing, and monitoring practices.
- Promote innovation and improvement Share knowledge with the team, explore new technologies, and help foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement
Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through our benefits scheme:
- 27 days of leave per year, rising to 32.5 days with length of service, plus bank holidays (usually 8 days per year).
- Opportunities and support for in house and external training and development.
- Free, unlimited access to Headspace meditation app.
- Sports and gym discounts.
- Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day.
- NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution.
- Discounts to high street stores, supermarkets, restaurants and more.
- Eligibility to apply for a Blue Light Card, which cost £4.99 and are valid for 2 years.
- Fleet home electronics and car leasing salary sacrifice scheme.
- Cycle to work scheme up to the value of £5,000.
- Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!
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We will be looking for specific skills, knowledge and experience in your application form:
- Experience building applications: Show how you’ve developed or contributed to working software using technologies like .NET, Power Platform, or Azure.
- Understanding of modern development practices: Demonstrate your knowledge of agile delivery, version control, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Problem-solving and teamwork: Share examples of how you’ve worked in a team to solve technical challenges and deliver user-focused solutions.
We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate individual adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request an adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: [email protected].
To progress your application, you’ll need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Without valid right to work you won’t be eligible for the role. We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. Some roles may also be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.
Next steps
If you apply, you’ll need to create a profile and complete an online application form. Your application will be completely anonymous. Please see our information for applicants for more details on the process. We contact every applicant to let them know the outcome of their application, so you will hear from us whether or not you are shortlisted.
You can read the full details of the role in the Job Description
If you’d like an informal chat about the role contact – Paul Cousins; Principal Engineer: [email protected] For general enquiries, please email [email protected].
The Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including:
- Annual leave starting at 27 days per year, rising to 32.5 days with service, plus bank holidays (usually 8 days per year).
- Training and development opportunities.
- Wellbeing initiatives, such as gym discounts and meditation.
- NHS pension scheme, with around 14% employer contribution.
- Discount schemes (including eligibility for a Blue Light card, at a cost of £4.99 and valid for 2 years), reward vouchers, car leasing and more!
Equity for all
We know job descriptions can feel intimidating. Research shows they can cause some people to doubt whether they’re a good fit. This happens more often to people from underrepresented groups (e.g. ethnic minority backgrounds). If this role interests you, we encourage you to apply. Your unique perspective, skills, and experience could be exactly what we need.
We want every candidate to feel supported and able to do their best. If you need adjustments to our process, we’ll work with you to remove any barriers. Visit our accessibility page for more on this. If you’d like to chat, please contact [email protected]. Please note, if you have previously informed us of adjustments you need for interview or within your role these are not carried over and must be discussed for each individual application you make.
We promote a workplace where fairness, respect and inclusion are a priority. Diverse teams make our work better, help us deliver our mission and make our culture stronger. See our ED&I page for more about this.
We Welcome Applications From Everyone, And Colleagues Can Find Support And Community Among Our Many Employee Networks. This Includes People Of Any
- Age
- Sex
- Gender identity or expression
- Sexual orientation
- Religion or belief
- Ethnicity
- Disability
We are guided by our core values, which shape our work and our culture.
Excellence – being a high-performing organisation.
Caring – treating everyone with dignity and respect.
Integrity – doing the right thing.
Teamwork – learning from each other to be the best we can.
We are a disability confident employer and a carer confident employer.
A Note on AI
About
AI tools can be great for research and refining ideas, but we want to learn about you. If you use AI or Chatbots to help you with your application, keep these points in mind:
- AI can support research, structuring and refining your writing, but your application must reflect your real skills and experience.
- Spell-checking and condensing word counts are great ways to use AI effectively.
- Do not copy and paste AI generated answers. These will not help you stand out; remember we want to hear about your skills and experience.
- Providing false and insincere examples goes against our core values of honesty and integrity and may lead to your application being withdrawn or termination of your employment.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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