Senior Full Stack Engineer

Job Description

hackajob is collaborating with Dunnhumby Ltd to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

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We're looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our Application Platform team in Manchester, on a hybrid basis. You'll be one of the first product engineers on dunnhumby's new continuous-deployment paved road, building a customer-facing analytics product end-to-end and showing the rest of engineering what "production-ready on the platform" looks like.

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What we expect from you:

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• Senior-level experience building and running production services in C# / ASP.NET Core and TypeScript / Next.js / React — with working knowledge of the other side and an appetite to grow into both.

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• Comfortable owning a service on Kubernetes — deployments, probes, autoscaling, NetworkPolicies, RBAC — and debugging real failures from kubectl alone.

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• Solid working knowledge of Kubernetes operators and CRDs — you understand reconciliation loops, custom resources, and how operator-driven infrastructure differs from imperative provisioning.

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• Hands-on with at least one of GCP (GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Secret Manager) or Azure (AKS, Azure DB for PostgreSQL, Key Vault), and willing to learn the other.

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• Clear written communication — RFCs, ADRs, runbooks, PR descriptions other engineers can act on.

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Nice to have:

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• Crossplane experience — authoring Compositions, CompositeResourceDefinitions, or custom providers.

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• GitOps fluency with ArgoCD and Helm, and CI/CD authorship in GitLab.

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• Building custom Kubernetes operators with the Operator SDK or Kubebuilder.

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• Service mesh experience (Istio or Linkerd).

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• Prior experience migrating a product from bundled releases to continuous deployment.

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• Backstage or internal developer portal contributions.

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Responsibilities:

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• Shape clear, testable acceptance criteria with Product and Design

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• Build and own end‐to‐end products across .NET services, TypeScript frontend, PostgreSQL, and GitOps deployment

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• Design scalable backend systems (APIs, event handling, clean architecture patterns)

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• Deliver high‐quality frontend experiences with accessible components and strong data/state management

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• Work with cloud‐native, declarative infrastructure (Kubernetes, Crossplane, CRDs)

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• Maintain high standards across testing (unit, integration, contract) and code quality

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• Apply strong security practices across backend and frontend systems

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• Build meaningful observability (tracing, logging, SLOs) focused on real user impact

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• Take a cost‐aware approach to scaling and resource usage

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• Participate in an on‐call rotation once ramped up

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• Use AI‐assisted development tools (e.g. Copilot, Claude) effectively in day‐to‐day work

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