£13.83 per hour plus £1.67 holiday pay
Advertising End Date
13 Jul 2025

Role & Department Overview

There is a revolution underway in Higher Education - and Lancaster University is leading it. As one of the top Universities in the world, we have always been innovators and our future will be driven by the possibilities created by new technologies.

Digital innovation is at the heart of our strategy and ambition. In the IT Partnering and Innovation Team, we are focused on developing new ways of delivering the best experience possible for all our students and staff, whether they are based at our green Campus or located at home, wherever that may be in the world. Joining us is your chance to help lead the transformation.
 

The Opportunity

We are searching for a new api developer, to play a role in our creative and forward-thinking team. The main purpose of this role is to help develop and support new innovation products throughout the full development stack. The successful candidate will want to work with cloud and on-premise development tools and framework, and be willing to work across a range of emerging frameworks.

The team have a broad range of experience, and are used to providing mentorship and guidance where ever you are on your developer journey.

Preferred start date: 14th July 2025

Expected end date: 14th October 2025 

Location: On the Lancaster University campus 

Hours per week: to be discussed

Informal enquires about the role can be sent to: Abigail Wells ([email protected]) 

Job Description

  • To maintain high levels of professional conduct, including but not limited to, cooperative engagement in tasks set, the exercising of initiative to suggest through line mangers improvements to the service provided, and clear and professional styles of communication at all times.
  • Be actively involved in documenting ‘standard’ actions and other useful/knowledge base items.
  • Maintenance of APIs and documentation for services, making appropriate amends/updates and continuous improvements as and when identified 
  • As part of a team, to effectively support the development and testing of software applications, using an agile project-based approach to applications development 

Person Specification

  • Experience of working effectively in a team-based role
  • Experience of working with technical and non-technical users and of communicating technical information appropriately to a non-technical audience
  • Ability to write code in a variety of programming languages (C#, Java etc)
  • Ability to produce well organised and structured written and verbal communications, including presenting effectively to small groups. 
  • Ability to work independently, developing own goals and managing dependencies, being able to make decisions without sufficient information for certainty
  • Able to demonstrate a strong work ethic, effective planning based on outcomes to deliver excellent results
 
 
Working in this role will help develop the following skills and experience:
 
  • Analysing
  • Decisiveness
  • Knowledge Sharing 
  • Multi-tasking
  • Organisation
  • Problem solving
Please note: Unless specified otherwise in the advert wording, this role is only open to individuals living in the UK.
 
You are required to submit a cover letter to support your application.
 
Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.
 
Under the terms of this work, we endeavour to provide the advertised number of hours however, hours are not guaranteed and that work may cease if there is a fall in demand.
 
Adverts that display a closing date should be treated as a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
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Help and advice on making applications can be found on the Lancaster University Careers pages. Visit www.lancaster.ac.uk/careers.

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