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# Lead Full Stack Engineer

- **Company:** Hackajob Ltd
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Applications Architecture, Cloud Computing, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, NoSQL, Standard Sql, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Spring-boot, Containerization, Information Technology, Restful APIs, Microservices
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5868805524

## About the Role

* We seek engineers who bring extensive professional software development experience, with demonstrated depth in full stack engineering and system/application architecture.
 * We seek a bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is a plus.
 * We value prior experience in securities, financial services, or modern engineering-first organizations.
 * We require strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, SQL, and the design of RESTful and streaming-based APIs.
 * We look for hands-on experience delivering cloud-native solutions, including microservices, containerization, and modern deployment patterns.
 * We look for working knowledge of NoSQL and distributed data stores, selected and applied appropriately at scale.
 * We value experience leveraging AI-enabled capabilities, including GenAI or ML-driven services, to enhance developer productivity, system intelligence, or customer outcomes, with a pragmatic understanding of responsible use, scalability, and integration into enterprise platforms.

## Description

* We amplify team impact through hands-on technical leadership, mentorship, and setting a high engineering bar.
 * We build trust, share credit, and strengthen cross-functional execution.
 * We design and build fit-for-purpose architectures that balance simplicity, quality, scale, and security.
 * We simplify systems and workflows by removing friction, toil, and unnecessary handoffs.
 * We create durable reusable patterns, guardrails, and tooling that accelerate team delivery.
 * We ramp up quickly in new domains, technologies, and problem spaces as needs evolve.
 * We apply strong engineering fundamentals across software design, data, testing, and distributed systems.
 * We use AI-enabled tools deliberately across design, coding, testing, review, and documentation, while maintaining human accountability for high-risk decisions, verification, and final quality.
 * We build software with a reliability-first mindset, incorporating secure coding practices, observability, testing, and disciplined rollout/rollback strategies.
 * We ensure production systems meet required levels of resiliency, performance, scalability, and operability.

Technologies:

 * AI
 * Cloud
 * Java
 * NoSQL
 * SQL
 * Security
 * Spring
 * Spring Boot
 * microservices
 * Fullstack


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