Software Engineer

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