We’re Civica and we make software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local to state government, to education, to health and care, over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to help provide critical services to over 100 million citizens.
Our aspiration is to be a GovTech champion everywhere we work around the globe, supporting the needs of citizens and those that serve them every day. Building on 21 years of continuous growth and success, we’re at a pivotal point on our journey to realise that aspiration.

REQUIREMENTS

• Technical depth and breadth: Strong expertise in building, scaling, and evolving modern web applications—ideally across both front-end and back-end domains (e.g. React, Golang, cloud-native platforms).
• System design & problem-solving: Demonstrated ability to design and evolve architecture in complex, real-world systems.
• Influence & collaboration: Builds trust across teams, facilitates alignment, and helps teams move forward without needing formal authority.
• Delivery orientation: Understands how to balance engineering design with delivery constraints and business priorities.
• Organisational thinking: Shapes engineering patterns that scale across teams and time—familiar with enabling or platform team models.

• Define and evolve product engineering practices, tooling, and shared application architecture patterns.
• Lead technical discovery, prototyping, and architectural alignment across teams contributing to our new platform.
• Provide hands-on support to unblock teams, improve implementation quality, and resolve cross-team technical challenges.
• Collaborate with engineering managers and product leads to shape delivery flow, team responsibilities, and ownership boundaries.
• Act as a mentor and technical coach to engineers across the organisation.
• Contribute to long-term architectural decisions that optimise for modularity, resilience, and operability.
• Facilitate healthy architectural debate, consensus-building, and design governance.
• Navigate ambiguity and help co-create the organisation’s path toward consolidated, high-quality delivery.