Full Stack Software Engineer

Join a trusted supplier delivering mission-critical solutions in the defence and national security sector. You will work on leading-edge technologies across AI/Data Science, Cyber, Cloud, DevOps/SRE, and Platform Engineering, developing solutions that protect people, platforms, and information against constantly evolving threats.

The Role

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain mission-critical softwares. You will work on novel products that combine physical and digital systems, collaborate closely with clients to define strategy, and explore emerging technologies.

Key responsibilities include:

Writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach

Producing reusable and maintainable code

Translating logical designs into physical designs and detailed specifications

Documenting work using appropriate standards and tools, including prototyping where needed

Working with emerging and well-understood technologies, identifying suitable design patterns

Integrating APIs and UI components with existing data stores and services

Maintaining and developing architectural components including data ingest, storage, and REST APIs

Participating in Agile ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint planning, demos, and epic decomposition

Collaborating with user researchers and internal stakeholders to represent user needs

Required Skills

Java Enterprise development and Spring Boot

Front-end frameworks such as React, VueJS, or AngularJS

Experience with appropriate testing frameworks

Technologically curious with the ability and willingness to learn new tools and technologies

Security Clearance

Candidates must be eligible to obtain DV security clearance due to the nature of this work.

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.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason , please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

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A leading consultancy specialising in data extraction and data management have a new opportunity for an experienced SQL Database Administrator / Manager to join them at their offices in Woking.

Key Skills: MS SQL Server database, business application support experience, CEDAR, Auth0, AngularJS / Angular

Location: Woking - GU22 7AE

Hybrid: Working from home on Monday and Friday - in office on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Salary: Circa £50,000 - £60,000 + excellent benefits

This is an exciting new position for my client and they are keen to find someone who has at least 3-5 years MS SQL Server database / business application support experience who can bring new ideas and skills to the company.

As SQL Database Manager you will have experience of:

• Liaising with suppliers (hardware, software and services)

• Implementation planning skills / experience

• Knowledge of Security principles and practice

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day administration & support of the CEDAR application
• Liaison with Rackspace and other suppliers (Auth0 etc)

Challenges:

• Understand the business environment and my client’s user community.

• Understand and support the monthly data release cycle

• Develop detailed knowledge of the CEDAR database and application platform

• Authentication (Auth0)

• Web Application (AngularJS / Angular)

• Server (MS .Net CORE)

• Database (MS SQL Server)

Formalise and document key business processesContribute to ongoing business improvement

This is an excellent opportunity for a database manager with 3-5 years’ experience of MySQL to join a well-established team of ‘data gurus’ and be part of a growing and very successful company.

Please click ‘apply now’ for more details.

Leeds (Hybrid)
Permanent
£70,000 - £75,000 (DOE)

Java Developer needed for a permanent career opportunity based in Leeds (Hybrid). Start ideally Feb/March 2026.

Hybrid Working - 2 days/week remote (WFH), and 3 days/week working on-site from the Leeds office.

A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in delivering large-scale Government digital modernisation projects.

Key skills, experience + duties to include:

• Java Developer needed with strong front/back-end development skills + experience of AWS Cloud environments.
• Designing, developing + implementation robust + secure Java software solutions using Core Java and Spring Boot.
• AWS Cloud Services including: S3, Lambda, Step Functions, Athena, Glue, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, CloudFormation, API Gateway, ECS, CloudWatch.
• Advantageous skills: understanding of DevOps/DevSecOps concepts, Docker, Containerisation + AWS Associate Developer accreditation.
• Technical Environment: Core Java, Spring Boot, AWS Cloud Services, Kotlin, AngularJS, Jenkins, NodeJS, SQL/NoSQL databases, DynamoDB, GitHub, Backend, Frontend, CI/CD, DevOps, GOV.UK.
• Benefits: Salary to £70k-75k (DOE) + Hybrid + 10% Bonus + Pension + 22 days holiday + BHs (rising to 25 days) + Death in Service + Health Care Plan + More.

Full Stack Software Engineer
Join a trusted supplier delivering mission-critical solutions in the defence and national security sector. You will work on leading-edge technologies across AI/Data Science, Cyber, Cloud, DevOps/SRE, and Platform Engineering, developing solutions that protect people, platforms, and information against constantly evolving threats.

The Role

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain mission-critical softwares. You will work on novel products that combine physical and digital systems, collaborate closely with clients to define strategy, and explore emerging technologies.

Key responsibilities include:

• Writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach
• Producing reusable and maintainable code
• Translating logical designs into physical designs and detailed specifications
• Documenting work using appropriate standards and tools, including prototyping where needed
• Working with emerging and well-understood technologies, identifying suitable design patterns
• Integrating APIs and UI components with existing data stores and services
• Maintaining and developing architectural components including data ingest, storage, and REST APIs
• Participating in Agile ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint planning, demos, and epic decomposition
• Collaborating with user researchers and internal stakeholders to represent user needs

Required Skills

• Java Enterprise development and Spring Boot
• Front-end frameworks such as React, VueJS, or AngularJS
• Experience with appropriate testing frameworks
• Technologically curious with the ability and willingness to learn new tools and technologies

Security Clearance

Candidates must be eligible to obtain DV security clearance due to the nature of this work.

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.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Java Developers

I’m currently recruiting for a client in the enterprise digital transformation space that require 3 x Java Developers. Below i have detailed the requirements of the most senior position (tech lead) to help you fully understand their technology suite.

The client is flexible around experience though due to the fact that they require 3 people to join the team, so should you feel you don’t fully match the skillet below but are interested then it could still be suitable.

Please note you must be eligible for SC clearance, if you aren’t eligible then you will be unable to be considered for these positions.

Job Summary

Day to day you will be a hands-on technical lead within an agile, multi-disciplinary team, working with developers, testers, agile leads, and product owners to deliver digital products and showcase technical excellence.

Key responsibilities:
* This is a hands-on role where you will be undertaking development alongside leading and guiding the development of your team, providing direction and oversight of the technical delivery for the digital products you are responsible for
* Actively working on Java and Angular codebase to implement new features and requirements working in partnership with the Product Owners and Architects
* Help establish and follow a set of engineering principles and best practices to ensure consistency and quality in the engineering process are upheld by efficiently and effectively completing code reviews and feedback to teams.
* Assist with Service support during office hours - Identifying, locating and proactively fixing faults
* Provide mentoring and coaching of more junior members of staff to enhance and improve the team’s capability.
* Bring an energetic and proactive approach to tackling complex technical challenges, encouraging creative problem-solving and continuous learning within the team.

Skills Required:

Essential
* Hands on and current active technical experience of the following:

• AWS cloud services (ECR, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Step Functions, Apigee)
• Java (Springboot), AngularJS, Node 10, Typescript.
• Tooling: Gitlab, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Fortify on Demand or similar, SonarQube or similar
• Cypress/Selenium, BDD-Gherkin --> Karate / Cucumber, Jest
  * Demonstrable evidence of leading and mentoring teams, combined with strong stakeholder management and an ability to communicate effectively at all levels within an organisation.
  * Able to establish a series of best engineering practices and implementing them across multiple teams.

Desirable

• Kotlin, Groovy, Bash, JavaScript, CloudFormation/Terraform
• JBoss Drools, DMN, XML

Qualification
* Graduate level education (or equivalent experience) in Computing, Computer Science, or equivalent subject
* Essential: AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate or AWS Certified Developer - Associate
* Adept at leveraging automation to improve development processes and optimise software delivery.
* Excellent problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking, capable of tackling complex technical challenges.
* Deep understanding of software architecture, design patterns and best practices, with a focus on creating scalable, maintainable, and efficient systems

Role: Senior Software Developer

Location: Nottinghamshire

Working Arrangement: Hybrid 2 days/week in the office
Salary: Up to £65k

Your Opportunity

You re a hands-on Senior Software Developer who enjoys solving complex problems, shaping technical direction, and seeing your ideas make a real impact. This role gives you the chance to take ownership of a mature software platform while directly influencing its future roadmap and delivering meaningful new functionality used by real customers.

You ll work in an agile environment where your experience matters. From sprint planning through to delivery, you ll be trusted to make sound technical decisions, build robust solutions, and help guide the team toward high-quality outcomes. This is a role for someone who enjoys autonomy, technical depth, and being relied upon.

Your Role

As a Senior Software Developer, you ll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining reliable, scalable software that supports customers in managing and growing their businesses. You ll write clean, maintainable code, contribute ideas to future development, and play a key role in delivering development sprints to agreed timelines.

You ll support and motivate an agile development team, helping to coordinate sprint activity, complete code reviews, and ensure stories are delivered to a high standard. Alongside your hands-on development work, you ll coach others, share knowledge, and help raise the overall technical capability of the team.

Strong communication is essential. You ll work closely with developers, testers, business analysts, and stakeholders, confidently discussing stories, processes, and low-level architecture with both technical and non-technical audiences.

What You ll Be Doing

You ll design and implement feature enhancements, maintenance updates, and new technical capabilities across the platform, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and future-proof. You ll build and maintain server-side services, APIs, and databases that support client-side applications, while analysing issues across multiple layers of the system to identify and resolve root causes.

You ll take ownership of sprint and release activity, helping to plan, prioritise, and coordinate work based on risk, dependencies, and delivery timelines. Code quality will be a key focus, with regular code reviews, documentation creation, and adherence to best-practice development standards.

Throughout your work, you ll demonstrate ownership, accountability, and strong decision-making, while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.

What You ll Bring

You ll have strong commercial experience with ASP.NET using C# in .NET Core or .NET 6, alongside solid experience with ASP.NET, MVC, Web APIs, Git-based version control, HTML, JavaScript, and Microsoft SQL Server. You ll bring a strong theoretical and practical understanding of modern software development principles, including security best practices.

Experience with front-end technologies such as React, Blazor, or legacy AngularJS will be beneficial, as will familiarity with Entity Framework, Kibana, Grafana, test-driven development, and agile ways of working. Exposure to event-driven platforms, microservices architecture, containerisation, Kubernetes, or Microsoft Azure would be an advantage.

Beyond technical skills, you ll be proactive, organised, and comfortable managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. You ll communicate clearly and professionally, contribute confidently in meetings, and build strong working relationships across teams. A commitment to continuous learning and knowledge sharing is essential.

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to step into a senior, hands-on role where your expertise genuinely matters. You ll influence technical direction, take real ownership of delivery, and work in an environment that supports growth, learning, and continuous improvement. If you re looking for a role that balances challenge, responsibility, and long-term progression, this could be the right move for you.

We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background.

Your new company

You’ll be joining a large, purpose-driven organisation where digital technology plays a critical role in delivering strategic objectives and engaging a wide audience through high quality digital experiences.The IT Digital function is fast-paced and collaborative, focused on enabling the best possible customer experience across public facing platforms. The role is based at a head office location, with hybrid working available. There is an expectation of regular on-site collaboration with the wider team.

Your new role

As a Lead Full Stack Developer, you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining a large-scale public-facing website along with its supporting applications and APIs. You’ll work in small, cross-functional agile teams, delivering high-quality solutions into production on a regular cadence.You’ll architect and implement new features and technologies, placing a strong emphasis on quality, accessibility and user experience. Working closely with Product Owners, engineers and UI/UX designers, you’ll help translate designs into robust, production-ready features while influencing engineering standards and best practices.
The role spans the full technology stack, including:

• Front-end TypeScript / React applications
• Java / Spring microservices and APIs
• A range of databases and cloud-based infrastructure
• CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps tooling

You’ll collaborate with infrastructure and operations teams to build out new cloud environments, support live services and resolve production issues. Continuous improvement is core to the team’s culture, and you’ll be encouraged to stay current with industry trends and expand your technical skill set.

What you’ll need to succeed

You’ll have experience working within a highly collaborative, agile delivery environment and a strong background in developing and maintaining modern web-based products. You’ll take pride in building solutions that are performant, reliable, scalable and resilient.

Key experience includes:

• Java 11+ enterprise development using Spring, REST and/or GraphQL APIs and microservices
• Modern front-end frameworks such as React (JavaScript / TypeScript); experience with AngularJS or jQuery is advantageous
• Build and deployment tools including Maven, Git and CI/CD pipelines
• A strong testing mindset, including unit, functional and integration testing
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and database technologies such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB or PostgreSQL
• Cloud-native application design and architecture (e.g. containerised, serverless or event-driven systems)
• Familiarity with BDD practices and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus or Kibana
• Experience using collaborative tooling such as Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence

You’ll be someone who cares deeply about code quality, user experience and continuous improvement, and who enjoys working on complex systems that make a meaningful impact.

What you need to do now
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Relevant Experience: 7 YearsJob Summary: Designs, runs and improves software that meets user needs. Competent Java developer with significant experience in AWS cloud services. Proficient in AngularJS, Jenkins, Karate, Gherkin and Cypress, Cloudformation, Jenkins, Groovy and deploying to native AWS services like ECS, S3, Lambda, SQS, Step Functions.Certification: Expected to have AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional accreditation or above
Responsibilities:Write clean, secure code using test-driven approach.Create reusable and open code.Collaborate with other developers.Fix service faults and maintain infrastructure.Apply modern development standards.Use prototyping methods and tools.Design and build software components.Support integration between systems.Focus on user needs and experience.Operate and improve production services.Provide Level 3 (L3) support 24/7 (including out of hour on-call support)
Requirements:Experience with Java (Springboot) and AWS cloud services (ECR, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Step Functions, Apigee)Proficiency in AngularJS, Jenkins, Karate, Node 10, Groovy, Bash, Typescript.Knowledge of Gherkin, Cypress, JestTooling: Gitlab, Jenkins, CloudFormation, Maven, Docker, Fortify on Demand, SonarQubeAWS DevOps Engineer certification or above.Understanding of software development lifecycle.Ability to apply secure coding practices.Experience with CI/CD pipelines.Knowledge of user-centered design principles.ITIL certification will be desirable.Experience of working in Agile teams

Senior E-Commerce Full Stack (Application Support) Engineer
Location: West Yorkshire / Bradford (Hybrid)

We re recruiting a Senior E-Commerce Full Stack (Application Support) Engineer to support and maintain high-traffic B2C e-commerce websites.

This is a support focused engineering role, suited to someone who enjoys owning live systems, resolving production issues, and making practical improvements that directly impact customer experience and platform stability.

The role

You ll be responsible for the ongoing support, maintenance and optimisation of busy e-commerce platforms. Your work will focus on:

• Monitoring platform performance, availability and reliability
• Diagnosing and resolving incidents, including root cause analysis
• Supporting accurate digital analytics, tagging and data quality
• Delivering small but meaningful enhancements across key customer journeys

You ll work closely with engineers, UX designers, digital analysts, SEO specialists and product teams to keep applications stable, secure and fit for purpose. The role also involves supporting integrations with core SaaS, ERP and CRM systems, while ensuring compliance with UK-GDPR and PCI-DSS requirements.

This position will involve working with existing and legacy systems, with a focus on stability and incremental improvement rather than greenfield development.

Essential experience

• Strong experience in software development and application support, with recent full-stack responsibility
• A background supporting high-traffic, high-availability e-commerce platforms
• Solid front-end skills using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, including frameworks such as AngularJS or jQuery
• Experience working with .NET or similar server-side technologies
• Exposure to digital analytics, tagging, CRO, personalisation and technical SEO

Personal qualities

• Calm and methodical problem-solving during live incidents
• Clear, collaborative communication across technical and non-technical teams
• Comfortable working under pressure with accuracy and focus
• Pragmatic, adaptable and focused on delivering business value

What this role offers

• A senior, hands-on application support engineering role with clear ownership of live e-commerce platforms
• Responsibility for the stability, performance and reliability of business-critical systems
• Close collaboration with engineering, digital, UX, analytics and product teams
• A practical environment focused on fixing issues, improving resilience and incremental enhancement, rather than greenfield builds

Package
£65,000 salary + £6,000 car allowance + up to 10% bonus
Hybrid working with 2 days per week onsite in West Yorkshire / Bradford.

Leeds (Hybrid)
Permanent
£70,000 £75,000 (DOE)

Java Developer needed for a permanent career opportunity based in Leeds (Hybrid). Start ideally Feb/March 2026.

Hybrid Working 2 days/week remote (WFH), and 3 days/week working on-site from the Leeds office.

A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in delivering large-scale Government digital modernisation projects.

Key skills, experience + duties to include:

• Java Developer needed with strong front/back-end development skills + experience of AWS Cloud environments.
• Designing, developing + implementation robust + secure Java software solutions using Core Java and Spring Boot.
• AWS Cloud Services including: S3, Lambda, Step Functions, Athena, Glue, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, CloudFormation, API Gateway, ECS, CloudWatch.
• Advantageous skills: understanding of DevOps/DevSecOps concepts, Docker, Containerisation + AWS Associate Developer accreditation.
• Technical Environment: Core Java, Spring Boot, AWS Cloud Services, Kotlin, AngularJS, Jenkins, NodeJS, SQL/NoSQL databases, DynamoDB, GitHub, Backend, Frontend, CI/CD, DevOps, (url removed).
• Benefits: Salary to £70k-75k (DOE) + Hybrid + 10% Bonus + Pension + 22 days holiday + BHs (rising to 25 days) + Death in Service + Health Care Plan + More.

A leading consultancy specialising in data extraction and data management have a new opportunity for an experienced Database Administrator / Manager to join them at their offices in Woking.

Key Skills: MS SQL Server database, business application support experience, CEDAR, Auth0, AngularJS / Angular

Location: Woking - GU22 7AE

Hybrid: Working from home on Monday and Friday - in office on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Salary: Circa 50,000 - 60,000 + excellent benefits

This is an exciting new position for my client and they are keen to find someone who has at least 3-5 years MS SQL Server database / business application support experience who can bring new ideas and skills to the company.

As MySQL Database Manager you will have experience of:

• Liaising with suppliers (hardware, software and services)

• Implementation planning skills / experience

• Knowledge of Security principles and practice

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day administration & support of the CEDAR application
• Liaison with Rackspace and other suppliers (Auth0 etc)

Challenges:

• Understand the business environment and my client’s user community.
• Understand and support the monthly data release cycle
• Develop detailed knowledge of the CEDAR database and application platform

• Authentication (Auth0)
• Web Application (AngularJS / Angular)
• Server (MS .Net CORE)
• Database (MS SQL Server)

• Formalise and document key business processes
• Contribute to ongoing business improvement

This is an excellent opportunity for a database manager with 3-5 years’ experience of MySQL to join a well-established team of “data gurus” and be part of a growing and very successful company.

Please click “apply now” for more details.