Senior Full Stack Engineer
Posted 3 days ago by Smartedge Solutions
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior Full Stack Engineer at Smartedge involves taking full ownership of building, scaling, and running production systems, requiring over 8 years of hands-on experience. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the business impact of engineering decisions and will be responsible for both product delivery and operational responsibilities. This position is designed for engineers with extensive experience in large-scale systems, emphasizing practical contributions over superficial design work. The role is hybrid, based in London, UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate end to end full stack applications, from front end user experiences to back end services and infrastructure.
- Own the entire software lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Build and operate systems using modern GitOps driven SDLC models, ensuring reliable and repeatable deployments.
- Develop highly scalable, performant, and resilient systems, with strong attention to production operations, incident resolution, and system optimization.
- Collaborate closely with product and business stakeholders, translating requirements into robust technical solutions while understanding downstream business impact.
Key Skills:
- Proven ability to operate as a senior IC, delivering production systems—not just high level designs or architectural diagrams.
- Comfortable making and owning technical decisions in ambiguous, fast moving environments.
- Demonstrated experience building systems of meaningful scale and complexity.
- Strong hands on experience across Full Stack & Platform Expertise, Front end development, Back end services & Infrastructure and platform operations.
- Senior Individual Contributor Mindset.
- Sr. Developer with hands on experience in Java based development & React.
- Experience in building responsive, component based user interfaces using modern front end frameworks.
- Hands on expertise in API design and development (REST/JSON), including versioning and backward compatibility.
- Experience with UI testing, component testing, and front end build tooling.
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes based environments, including deployment, scaling, and operational considerations.
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, A/B testing strategies etc.
- Experience in Automating the workflows and repeatable tasks.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Smartedge’s Client is looking for an individual to help with their Senior Full Stack Engineer @ London, UK (Hybrid Working) @ London, UK
Key area: We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 8+ years of experience who operates as a hands on, independent contributor and takes full ownership of building, scaling, and running production systems. This role is designed for engineers who have built and operated large scale systems end to end, not those with superficial exposure or purely design focused experience. The ideal candidate demonstrates depth of experience over tenure, understands the business impact of engineering decisions, and is comfortable owning both product delivery and “run the bank” responsibilities in complex environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate end to end full stack applications, from front end user experiences to back end services and infrastructure.
- Own the entire software lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Build and operate systems using modern GitOps driven SDLC models, ensuring reliable and repeatable deployments.
- Develop highly scalable, performant, and resilient systems, with strong attention to:
- Actively participate in production operations, incident resolution, and system optimization, embodying true “you build it, you run it” principles.
- Collaborate closely with product and business stakeholders, translating requirements into robust technical solutions while understanding downstream business impact.
Experience:
- Proven ability to operate as a senior IC, delivering production systems—not just high level designs or architectural diagrams.
- Comfortable making and owning technical decisions in ambiguous, fast moving environments.
- Demonstrated experience building systems of meaningful scale and complexity—engineers who have been “scarred” by real world production challenges.
- Strong hands on experience across Full Stack & Platform Expertise, Front end development, Back end services & Infrastructure and platform operations
- Senior Individual Contributor Mindset
- Sr. Developer with hands on experience in Java based development & React
- Experience in building responsive, component based user interfaces using modern front end frameworks
- Hands on expertise in API design and development (REST/JSON), including versioning and backward compatibility
- Experience with UI testing, component testing, and front end build tooling
- Deep familiarity with Kubernetes based environments, including deployment, scaling, and operational considerations.
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, A/B testing strategies etc
- Experience in Automating the workflows and repeatable tasks
If this sounds like a role you would be interested in or if you know someone in this field. Connect with me or email me at vineetha.s@smartedgesolutions.co.uk Alternatively, you can call me on Tel: +44(0)203 500 2108.