Senior Full Stack Engineer

Role Responsibilities

• This is a varied role that requires adaptability, ambition, and a proactive approach in a fast-paced, agile environment. You will:
• Own delivery of services : Take responsibility for the engineering and delivery of small-to-medium services (or major components of larger services) across the full lifecycle, from design and build through to deployment, operation and continual improvement.
• Lead on architecture and design : Take ownership of the end-to-end design of components or services, producing and maintaining high-quality documentation. Collaborate with Lead and Principal Engineers, and practitioners from disciplines such as UCD and Data Science, to review and refine designs and translate them into robust implementations.
• Support delivery planning: Partner with Delivery Managers to plan and structure technical activities, provide accurate and commercially sound estimates, and proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, issues and dependencies.
• Build stakeholder trust : Act as a trusted technical advisor to client counterparts, partner organisations and third parties, ensuring alignment between business needs and technical delivery.
• Mentor and develop others : Provide guidance and technical leadership to colleagues, supporting their professional growth, fostering high-quality delivery, and enabling the team to work efficiently and confidently.

Requirements

• Essential Skills
• 5+ years’ proven experience in a Full Stack Engineering role, with advanced skills in .NET, Java or Python, plus modern JavaScript libraries.
• Experience taking ownership of delivery for services or significant components across the full lifecycle from design to operation.
• Strong understanding of architectural and design patterns, including serverless and microservices, with the ability to lead and assure their application.
• Experience working in Agile environments, using Scrum, Kanban and test-driven development (TDD), and contributing to delivery planning and estimation.
• Experience mentoring and supporting less experienced engineers, providing guidance and enabling high-quality, efficient delivery.
• Proven experience engaging with clients, taking ownership of technical decisions and delivery outcomes, and building trusted relationships.
• Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), delivering scalable, secure and well-architected solutions.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and/or Terraform.

Desirable Skills

• Experience working in a consultancy environment, engaging with external stakeholders and clients.
• Exposure to public sector projects and delivering solutions in complex organisational landscapes.
• Senior colleagues, experts, and leaders at Informed Solutions are committed to supporting, coaching, upskilling, and enabling the success and career progression of each other.
• There are some foundation areas, however, which you need to possess to be able to successfully contribute to your team and work alongside others.

Key abilities that are necessary for success

What You’ll Gain

Benefits

• Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.
• These can include:
• InformedACADEMY™ – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Monthly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
• *Qualifying period applies

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