Software Engineer

You’ll be a key part of a small, high-impact engineering team building and maintaining both customer-facing and internal applications for a recruitment group operating in several sectors. You’ll be working both within a team and on your own to deliver features and applications end-to-end with modern tooling, hands-off management style and an opportunity to develop the environment and dynamic of a growing team., Application Development

• Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications using NodeJS, React & Typescript

• Develop robust, well-structured code in larger codebases

• End-to-end delivery of features and projects, from requirements through to production deployment

• Work with modern tooling for large-scale, maintainable applications

• Implement testing, monitoring and observability to ensure applications run reliably in production

• Build applications with security best practices aligned to ISO 27001 standards

• Contribute to technical documentation and clear issue tracking

Ownership & Growth

• Take ownership of assigned projects

• Opportunities to mentor and support junior developers through reviews, pair-programming and mentoring

• Contribute to system design decisions and technical roadmap planning

• Identify and champion improvements to development processes and tooling

• Begin to implement “smart” features powered by ML/AI in a product-first manner

• Participate in security audits and vulnerability assessments (with growth potential to lead internal audits)

Experience & Qualifications

• 5 years of software engineering experience, ideally with full-stack focused roles
• Proven experience building production applications with React & NodeJS

• Familiarity with relational databases, such as PostgreSQL, MS SQL or MYSQL

• Experience writing well maintained, testable code using frameworks like Vitest or Jest

• Familiarity with modern RBAC Auth frameworks

Nice-to-Haves

-Experience with any of the following

-Expo/React Native or native mobile development for Android or iOS

-TRPC or similar backend layers

-Turborepo or similar monorepo-style projects

-Cloud (AWS, Azure, Vercel) containerized or bare metal deployments of production applications

-.NET (for legacy system maintenance)

-React Frameworks like NextJS, Tanstack Start

-Tanstack Tools (Query, DB, Form)

-Interest in or background with security and infrastructure

-Experience working within ISO 27001 or similar compliance frameworks (e.g SOC2)

Personal Attributes

-Comfortable working with multiple teams

-Strong problem-solving skills with a methodical approach to debugging and failure analysis

-Prefers an Agile/Async approach to work

-Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain technical decisions clearly

-Proactive and self-directed; able to manage multiple priorities and take ownership of outcomes

-Curiosity about infrastructure, ML/AI, industry trends and security topics

-Collaborative mindset with willingness to grow into more senior responsibilities

-Pragmatic about AI tooling; uses it to move faster without outsourcing critical thinking