Description
Summary
Purpose: The Full Stack Developer will drive digital innovation across the organisation, contributing to product, web, and content development. With expertise in both front-end and back-end technologies—including Node.js, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Azure, and Sanity CMS—you’ll deliver scalable, secure solutions and support codebase management. This role suits an experienced developer who enjoys solving complex problems, writing clean code, and mentoring others. They will also naturally promote a culture of trust, learning, innovation, and technical excellence.Landscape: This role sits within the Web Operations Team, part of the Marketing and Brand department in the Customer and Product Directorate. It supports technical development and web enhancements aligned with a customer-first strategy across teams including Marketing, Sales, Customer Services, and Product Development.
The website plays a key role in exam delivery, particularly during the Summer series, where this role may provide hands-on leadership or resolve critical issues.
While not a line management position, the Full Stack Developer collaborates with stakeholders across departments and suppliers to deliver strategic and tactical changes. Regular engagement is expected across all levels, with travel primarily to Manchester, Guildford, and London.
Activities:
Agile delivery of our Web and digital product roadmap
Responsible for supporting delivery of our web product roadmap (which includes complex specification content) across internal and third party teams.
Design, develop, and maintain web applications using React, Next.js and other relevant technologies.
Implement front-end development requirements to create responsive user interfaces that enhance user experience using React and Next.js.
Implement secure and performant back end code using React, Next.js, Node.js and Azure.
Participate in code reviews and maintain code quality through version control using Git and Azure DevOps
Troubleshoot and debug applications to optimise performance and ensure reliability.
Work with cloud services such as Azure, Sanity and Vercel to deploy applications and monitor infrastructure.
Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve development processes.
Supporting and mentoring junior and newly onboarded developers and contributing to the broader knowledge of the team
Working with operational teams to develop and support web products, reducing time to market, and increasing quality through continuous improvement of:processes, driving agile / lean good practice,
people, through modelling leadership behaviours, coaching, and
technology, ensuring systems reflect good practice
Ensure expectations of the business and its customers are understood and met.
Supporting the team in retrospectively reviewing and improving processes through continuous improvement.
Stakeholders
Work closely with Product Managers, Product Owners, a range of Senior Stakeholders, our outsourced development agency, and our Web Operations team – as well as internal departments including Security and Risk and Architecture.
Instil confidence in customers and stakeholders through clear, consistent, and timely communication
Other Responsibilities
Risk management – participating in the identification, assessment, planning and management of threats and opportunities.
Information security – taking an active part in the preservation of security, confidentiality, availability and integrity of information assets.
Continuous professional development – responsible for ensuring own ongoing professional development to meet existing and future organisational needs.
Act as an escalation point for issues, including any major incidents.
To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate:
Essential Criteria
Excellent experience of development in a variety of agile / lean and scaled agile delivery structures, with an outcome-focussed approach.
Proficiency and experience with web technologies including as a minimum/essentially JavaScript, Typescript, CSS and React.
Solid understanding of software development methodologies and application development life cycles with experience using CI/CD and Git.
Experience with RESTful APIs and application integration techniques.
High level of curiosity, with a genuine passion for finding and implementing innovative solutions for business problems through technology.
Good understanding of security considerations in modern web development.
Desirable Criteria
Demonstrable technical knowledge to be able to create, drive, innovate and assess technical solutions across a wide range of software technologies, processes and platforms.
Structured thinking approach, able to lead groups of people to break down and resolve complex and ambiguous problems in time-pressured environments, recognising and balancing technical against operational and commercial factors.
Experience delivering in high-stakes and regulated environments.
Passion for continuous improvement in practice, to increase product quality, reliability, and dependability.
A good level of understanding of headless content management systems.
Familiarity with Linux operating systems for deployment and server monitoring.
Experience with Azure DevOps.