Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer | Mission-led | Remote-first with London office

💻 Senior Software Engineer

📍 Remote-first with London office

💰 £65,000-£80,000

🌍 Mission-led Tech / GovTech

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer for a growing technology business using data and software to improve people's lives across the UK.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys building high-quality software, improving engineering practices, and working across the full stack, whilst helping shape the future of a mission-led business.

What you'll be doing:

✅ Building and maintaining full stack applications across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure and CI/CD

✅ Designing and delivering new features whilst helping modernise a large production platform

✅ Championing engineering best practice across architecture, testing, code quality and deployment

✅ Mentoring and supporting other engineers through pairing, code reviews and knowledge sharing

✅ Working closely with Product, Data and stakeholders to deliver meaningful outcomes for users

What they're looking for:

🔹 Strong experience as a Full Stack or Senior Software Engineer building modern web applications

🔹 Experience with modern frontend frameworks and backend technologies

🔹 Cloud experience (AWS preferred) and an understanding of CI/CD and modern engineering practices

🔹 Someone who enjoys mentoring others and helping raise engineering standards

🔹 Comfortable working in a collaborative scale-up environment with real ownership

🔹Legacy Angular front end, currently being migrated incrementally to React

🔹Wider product ecosystem already uses React with a shared component library

🔹TypeScript across the front-end stack

🔹AWS cloud environment

🔹AWS CDK exposure is a strong plus

🔹Strong relevance for engineers who’ve worked on legacy-to-modern stack migrations, especially moving products from older front-end architectures into newer frameworks

Why is this Senior Software Engineer opportunity a great one?

💡 Build technology that has a genuine social impact and helps improve people's lives

💡 High-impact role with real ownership across the full stack

💡 Opportunity to influence engineering culture, technical direction and best practices

💡 Flexible hybrid working with a collaborative and supportive engineering team

If this sounds like you, please apply below!

Senior Software Engineer | Mission-led | Remote-first with London office