ROLE PURPOSE
You'll be a key part of a small, high-impact engineering team building and maintaining both customer-facing and internal applications for a recruitment group operating in several sectors. You’ll be working both within a team and on your own to deliver features and applications end-to-end with modern tooling, hands-off management style and an opportunity to develop the environment and dynamic of a growing team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Application Development
* Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications using NodeJS, React & Typescript
* Develop robust, well-structured code in larger codebases
* End-to-end delivery of features and projects, from requirements through to production deployment
* Work with modern tooling for large-scale, maintainable applications
* Implement testing, monitoring and observability to ensure applications run reliably in production
* Build applications with security best practices aligned to ISO 27001 standards
* Contribute to technical documentation and clear issue tracking
Ownership & Growth
* Take ownership of assigned projects
* Opportunities to mentor and support junior developers through reviews, pair-programming and mentoring
* Contribute to system design decisions and technical roadmap planning
* Identify and champion improvements to development processes and tooling
* Begin to implement “smart” features powered by ML/AI in a product-first manner
* Participate in security audits and vulnerability assessments (with growth potential to lead internal audits)
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Experience & Qualifications:
* 3-5 years of software engineering experience, ideally with full-stack focused roles
* Proven experience building production applications with React & NodeJS
* Familiarity with relational databases, such as PostgreSQL or MS SQL
* Experience writing well maintained, testable code using frameworks like Vitest or Jest
* Familiarity with modern authentication systems (better-auth or similar)
Desirable:
* Experience with any of the following
* Expo/React Native or native mobile development for Android or iOS
* tRPC or similar backend layers
* Turborepo or similar monorepo-style projects
* Cloud (AWS, Azure, Vercel) containerized or bare metal deployments of production applications
* .NET (for legacy system maintenance)
* NextJS
* Tanstack Query/Start/DB
* Interest in or background with security and infrastructure
* Experience working within ISO 27001 or similar compliance frameworks (e.g SOC2)
Personal Attributes:
* Comfortable wearing multiple hats
* Strong problem-solving skills with a methodical approach to debugging and failure analysis
* Prefers an Agile/Async approach to work
* Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain technical decisions clearly
* Proactive and self-directed; able to manage multiple priorities and take ownership of outcomes
* Curiosity about infrastructure, ML/AI, industry trends and security topics
* Collaborative mindset with willingness to grow into more senior responsibilities
* Pragmatic about AI tooling; uses it to move faster without outsourcing critical thinking