Full Stack Engineer

• Frontend: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Redux (with Redux-Sagas)

• Backend: Golang & NodeJS , with PostgreSQL and MongoDB

• Architecture: Microservices, APIs, and serverless services Infrastructure & tooling: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, CI/CD pipelines

• Practices: Automation-first, metrics-driven, incident write-ups and observability baked in

About the role:

As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll work across both frontend and backend to design, build, and scale new products and features. You'll help bridge the gap between disciplines, collaborating with backend, web, product and design to deliver seamless, user-centric solutions.

You won't just ship code, you'll help shape how we work. Whether that's building new features, new services, building out internal dashboards, expanding our design systems, or optimising developer experience. You'll move between product delivery and platform improvement, bringing a positive, proactive and collaborative mindset to the team.

On a day-to-day basis you'll:

• Write clean, maintainable, scalable, and well-tested code across frontend and backend (React, Go, Node etc.).

• Collaborate closely with Designers, PMs, and fellow Engineers to scope, design, and deliver features end-to-end.

• Build and maintain services, APIs, and internal dashboards that improve both customer experience and internal operations.

• Support infrastructure changes, deployment pipelines, and automation initiatives.

• Contribute to design systems and ensure pixel-perfect implementation on the frontend. Proactively identify and solve both functional and technical problems in the product.

• Share knowledge across teams, helping to raise the bar for the full stack discipline at Cuvva.

• Participate in standups, retros, and team ceremonies, keeping work visible and moving smoothly.

• Support onboarding of new joiners and contribute to improving our engineering practices.

Do you have experience in iOS?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks (React, Redux).

• Solid backend knowledge, ideally with Golang and/or NodeJS, plus experience with APIs and microservices.
• Familiarity with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless services.
• An understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and scaling distributed systems.
• Experience building and maintaining both frontend and backend infrastructure.
• A proactive, collaborative approach - you like working with like-minded teammates across disciplines and sharing what you know.
• An eye for continuous improvement, both in systems and processes.
• Comfortable with ambiguity - you're curious, adaptable, and eager to experiment in an incubator-style team, helping shape ambiguity into clarity.

It's a bonus if you:

• Have worked in a startup or scale-up environment.
• Are used to operating as a Product Engineer, owning problems end-to-end, not just writing code.
• Have the ability to pivot with enthusiasm and maintain speed when priorities shift.

As well as a competitive salary (£76,500 - £82,000 depending on experience), benefits of working at Cuvva include:

• Very flexible WFH set up, we only ask folks to come in a couple of times a month for team strategy days and socials - but of course, you're more than welcome to come in as much as you like!
• A four day work week (Fridays off!)
• Transparent salary model and bands for all roles (without sharing anyone's individual salary of course!)
• 20.5 days of holiday a year + public holidays - rising with each year at Cuvva (holidays have been prorated based on our 4DWW)
• Quarterly team socials and company events
• Private medical insurance with Bupa
• Professional development budget
• Health, WFH and wellbeing budget ️
• Increases to all allowances year on year
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Mental Health and Coaching Support - We offer free and confidential access to comprehensive mental healthcare and coaching through Oliva. Giving you the space to talk to a coach or therapist about anything you like
• Hundreds of perks and discounts with Perkbox
• £100 a month towards your Cuvva car insurance Referral bonus when you bring your friends to join the Cuvva team

The hiring process:

• Initial chat with Engineering Manager (60m)
• Technical interview & live challenge with fellow Engineers (90m)
• Key stakeholder review with Head of Engineering (30m)
• Founders chat with our CEO, Freddy (20m)

We offer short-term car insurance through our world-class app, creating truly flexible products that meet people's real needs. Using lightning-fast technology to unlock better experiences and fairer prices for our customers, Cuvva is building the future of insurance every day. Cuvva was the first to sell hourly insurance via an app in the UK back in 2016. And we haven't stopped innovating since. We've sold over 13 million policies, and supported over 1 million drivers and we're just getting started. We're a team of 100 people, passionate about solving our customers' problems. Join us. Our Product Engineering teams At Cuvva, we run lean and highly collaborative, cross-functional product teams. As our new Full Stack Engineer, you'll initially join our internal product incubator squad which focuses on exploring and developing new product opportunities for the business. The team operates with a fast-pace and values autonomy and action, balancing discovery, delivery and is well suited to Engineers who are comfortable working through ambiguity, testing ideas quickly and learning through iteration. Each product team owns their area of the Cuvva product end to end, with a high degree of autonomy & accountability. Teams are made up of cross-disciplinary engineers: Full Stack/Backend/iOS/Android/Cloud/Data Engineers, as well as, dedicated Product Designers & Product Managers + Engineering Managers. At Cuvva, people come from a wide range of backgrounds & bring different but complementary skill sets. Within Engineering, you're not required to have a university degree, many of us are self-taught. Our 2026 Engineering Strategy: We're not just here to write code, we're here to redefine how insurance works. Our 2026 engineering strategy is built on five principles: * AI-first: We're investing in automation and building AI-powered features to serve customers better and faster, Cuvva ways of working: We're dedicated to creating a place where people want to work, a place where people believe in what they're doing, have clear expectations and a bunch of freedom. Our approach to hybrid working is very flexible: we only ask people to come a couple of times a month for team building or company events. The rest of time it's up to you where and how you work. You can of course come into the office as much as you like! Diversity, inclusion and belonging at Cuvva: At Cuvva, we're dedicated to building an environment where individuals from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging and have the support they need to thrive. To us, it's crucial that our differences are embraced and celebrated - and that you're able to bring your whole self to work everyday.