Full Stack Engineer - Javascript + Python (Cloud GCP)
Full Stack Engineer (Contract) - Javascript + Python (Cloud GCP) London (Hybrid - 2 days onsite) 12-month contract | Immediate start | Likely extension
We're looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer to join a high-performing product engineering team building user-facing, AI-powered applications. This is a hands-on role focused on designing and delivering robust, scalable software rather than pure ML or data engineering. You'll work on end-to-end features within an agentic application environment, contributing to real-world, production-grade systems that are already live and evolving.What you'll be doing
- Designing and building end-to-end user-facing features
- Working across frontend and backend within a modern cloud-based architecture
- Improving reliability, scalability, and performance of existing applications
- Contributing to technical design and architectural decisions
- Collaborating closely with product, engineering, and research stakeholders
- Building features such as recommendations, user profiles, and other customer-facing functionality
- This is a software engineering role, not a data engineering or ML research position.
Tech stack & skills Essential
- Strong experience with JavaScript and Python
- Solid cloud experience (GCP preferred; Azure acceptable)
- Full stack development experience across frontend and backend
- Comfort working in containerised environments
Nice to have
- Kubernetes
- Cloud deployment and CI/CD exposure
- React or Next.js
- Experience contributing to system and application design (not just delivery)
What we're looking for
- Experience as a software or full stack engineer
- Execution-driven, proactive mindset
- Comfortable forming and voicing technical opinions
- Experience working in agile teams
- Interest in working on scientific or research-led products
- Able to slot into an existing team and add value quickly
Why this role?
- Work on cutting-edge, real-world AI-enabled products
- Freedom to put your own ideas into practice
- High-impact work that's challenging and rewarding
- Unlimited token budget and modern tooling
- Strong track record of contract extensions and contract-to-perm opportunities
- Collaborative, ambitious engineering culture
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.