Tech Stack: React, NestJS, cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, modern frontend/mobile tools.
Location: Fully remote
Salary: up to £84,000
Benefits: Share / bonus scheme, 6% matched pension and other
Contract type: Full time, permanent
Sanderson Recruitment are exclusively supporting a FTSE 100 Financial Services and Insurance business in the search for a Staff Software Engineer. This is a unique opportunity to provide technical leadership, drive engineering best practices, and deliver scalable, high-quality solutions that support the organisation\'s long-term technology goals. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will provide technical direction across multiple teams, mentor engineers, and play a key role in shaping the technical roadmap. You\'ll collaborate with senior leadership to ensure engineering outputs are robust, secure, and aligned with strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across multiple teams.
* Oversee the design, quality, and delivery of scalable technical solutions.
* Drive improvements in CI/CD, automation, testing, and secure development practices.
* Collaborate with senior leadership on technical strategy, risk management, and roadmap planning.
* Lead the resolution of technical constraints, blockers, and integration challenges.
* Promote engineering values and facilitate clear communication and knowledge sharing.
* Identify and address technical debt, ensuring sustainability and continuous improvement.
Required Skills and Experience
* Significant experience as a Senior or Staff Software Engineer
* Expertise in React and NestJS, including server-side rendering, state management, and API development.
* Strong background in designing micro frontend (MFE) architectures and optimising CI/CD, automation, and testing practices.
* Extensive experience with cloud-native environments (preferably GCP and Azure, AWS experience will also be considered), containerisation, and infrastructure tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform).
* Skilled in performance optimisation and secure development practices
* Proven leadership, mentorship, and collaboration skills across multiple teams and stakeholders.
* Excellent communication, problem-solving, and continuous improvement mindset.
Reasonable Adjustments
Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.
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