Lead Full Stack Developer

Richard Wheeler Associates
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
12 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 100K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements)
Mobile Application Software
PostgreSQL
Node.js
Prism (Software)
Next.js
Software Engineering
SQL Databases
TypeScript
Web Applications
Google Cloud Platform
React
Firebase
Expo.io
Backend
Google Cloud Functions
React Native

Job description

Very high growth (>200% CAGR) e-commerce startup is seeking an experienced Technical Lead Full Stack Developer, crucially technically hands-on, to own the technology stack and guide a small engineering team.

The Lead Fullstack Developer will be directly responsible for shipping critical code, while also mentoring other engineers, driving technical strategy, and ensuring the platform scales with rapid international growth. They deploy multiple times per day, so you'll need experience in a similar startup environment.

Further, the full stack developer will be a key partner to the founders, translating business goals (eg US expansion) into a clear technical roadmap and high-quality, high-velocity execution., This is an inflexion point for the business. The Lead Full Stack Developer will be pivotal in shaping the product and overall business.

Requirements

  • Strong experience across the stack: TypeScript, React Native, React, Node, Postgres, GCP/Firebase
  • A genuine full-stack mindset: happy working in the mobile app, web apps, backend, and writing SQL when needed
  • Confident writing efficient, production-ready code - fast, reliable, observable, and easy to maintain
  • Comfortable with a high-pace release culture
  • Product-focused, enabling you to empathise with users and steer feature development
  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally in a fast-moving startup or product-led environment
  • Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mentality, and ability to work in GMT-friendly time zones
  • Deep practitioner of AI-powered SWE tools (Cursor, Windsurf, v0, etc.) and excited to push productivity to the limit.

Tech Stack:

  • Mobile Apps: (TypeScript, React Native, Expo)
  • Backend: (TypeScript, GCP/Firebase Cloud Functions, GCP Pub/Sub, Postgres, Prisma)
  • Web Apps: (TypeScript, React, Vercel)
  • Internal ERP: (TypeScript, Next.js, Vercel), * Ecommerce
  • GCP
  • Node
  • PostgreSQL
  • React
  • SQL

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