Full Stack Engineer

Demand for Cervus' products and services continues to grow across the Defence sector. We are looking for a motivated, curious, and technically minded Full Stack Engineer to help us scale our data and analytics capabilities across the UK and international markets.

In this role, you will contribute to the design, development and maintenance of the data pipelines, platforms and services that power Cervus' analytics. Working closely with experienced engineers, analysts, and delivery teams, you will help build customer focused, scalable, and innovative solutions that enable better decision making in defence. You will also be encouraged to leverage modern AI tools to accelerate high quality, sustainable development.

As a Full Stack Engineer, you will:

Design, develop, automatically test and maintain full-stack web applications with a focus on data pipelines, analytics dashboards, and reporting tools.

Build scalable RESTful APIs and backend services using modern frameworks and languages (e.g. Python, Node.js, C++).

Develop clean, responsive front-end interfaces using frameworks like Vue.js or React, to present complex datasets and user workflows.

Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to integrate ML models, ETL pipelines, and cloud-based data storage solutions.

Optimise system performance and reliability for high-volume data operations across distributed environments.

Implement secure, compliant and scalable data access layers, ensuring compliance with data privacy standards.

Contribute to system architecture, technical decisions, documentation and code reviews.

Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, advocating for best practices in testing, deployment and release management.

Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field preferred - or equivalent practical experience gained on the job instead.

Professional experience in full stack software development, ideally in a data-focused or product orientated environment.

Strong backend development experience (preferably with Python), particularly with structured and unstructured data (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, data lakes).

Experience of working as part of a team to deliver software products.

Proficient in modern front-end technologies (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React or similar).

Experience working with containerised applications (e.g. Docker compose, Swarm or Kubernetes) in a Linux-based environment.

Solid understanding of RESTful API design, microservices architectures, and asynchronous workflows.

Familiarity with ETL processes, data warehousing and distributed systems.

Ability to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).

We'd love it if you also have:

Experience with data visualisation tools such as Apache Superset, Jupytr or Power BI

Familiarity with visualisation libraries like D3.js, Chart.js or Plotly for building interactive dashboards.

Exposure to DevOps practices including TDD, CI/CD and infrastructure as code.

Experience of optimising systems for performance and scalability and reliability.

Understanding of machine learning workflows or MLOps for deploying and monitoring models in production.

Experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS and its data services (e.g., BigQuery, Redshift, Athena).

Knowledge of network protocols and programming around HTTP(s), SSH, TCP and UDP

Development experience within secure or classified environments particularly where compliance or restricted networks are a factor.

Experience of leveraging the power of the rapidly emerging AI agents without compromising on quality.

£45,000 - £55,000 (depending on experience) plus excellent benefits* Start date: ASAP, This role will be primarily based at either our Bristol or Westbury offices for approximately 1

• 2 days per week. It operates within a flexible hybrid working model, with the option for regular home working. The role will also involve travel within the UK and overseas.

Why join Cervus?

Cervus is a performance analytics and technology company helping defence and security

organisations make better decisions, faster. Based in the southwest UK with offices in Bristol and Westbury, we value hybrid working, curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Joining us means contributing to meaningful, high-impact projects, working with talented colleagues, and helping shape the future of data-driven capability development.

This role typically involves 1 -2 days per week in the office and travel within the UK and overseas.