The Opportunity
We're working with a leading global digital organisation looking to bring on experienced Full Stack Engineers to join a team building a brand-new product from the ground up.
What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and building new functionality using Java, Spring Boot, React and TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Working across both backend services and modern Front End applications.
- Collaborating closely with Product Managers and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Taking ambiguous requirements and helping shape them into effective technical solutions.
- Making engineering decisions around areas such as service design, databases, caching and application architecture.
- Evaluating different technical approaches and clearly communicating the associated trade-offs.
- Creating technical documentation including RFCs and ADRs where appropriate.
- Challenging and clarifying requirements rather than simply implementing predefined solutions.
- Taking ownership from initial requirements and technical design through to delivery.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years' commercial software engineering experience.
- Strong and recent Java/Spring Boot experience, this is essential.
- Recent hands-on Front End development experience.
- Commercial React experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience with TypeScript and/or JavaScript.
- Next.js experience would also be highly relevant.
- Engineers coming from Vue or similar modern Front End frameworks may also be considered if they have strong Front End fundamentals and are comfortable working with React.
- Experience working within Agile, multidisciplinary product teams.
- Strong experience collaborating directly with Product Managers/Product teams.
- The ability to make independent technical decisions and explain the reasoning behind them.
- Experience designing and building new solutions/products, rather than predominantly working on migration or maintenance programmes.
What Does "Full Stack" Mean?: You don't need to be a perfect 50/50 frontend/backend engineer.
Product Engineering Experience
This is a particularly important part of the requirement.
We're looking for engineers who have experience building products as part of multidisciplinary Product and Engineering teams, rather than primarily working on Legacy migrations or narrowly defined implementation tasks.
Essential Requirements
- Strong, recent Java/Spring Boot expertise.
- Credible modern Front End development experience, ideally React.
- Genuine software/product engineering experience.
- Ability to contribute technically from day one.
- Comfortable independently owning technical decisions and solutions.
- Ability to attend the Manchester office 2 days every week.
Location
This is a hybrid Manchester-based contract, requiring attendance in the office two days every week.
The specific office days will be agreed by the team, so applicants must live within a realistically commutable distance of Manchester or be genuinely prepared to relocate.