Role Overview

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a fast-paced scale up with the backing of parent company [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]. The business supports public sector clients across the UK to make decisions about their services, estates and budgets through the delivery of market leading web applications and data visualisation tools, including Strata. To support growing client demands and an expanding product range, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is looking to grow its software engineering team. The Software Engineer will work alongside the Head of Software and the wider development team to deliver software and data projects, modernise existing platforms and develop new products. We are seeking a full stack Software Engineer to play an integral part in the technical delivery of the company’s products. The successful candidate will have relevant commercial development experience, great attention to detail and be a team player. This is the perfect opportunity to work in a growing business and highly motivated team, where exposure to multiple technologies, unique products and concurrent projects provides continuous learning. If you are positive, well organised, and looking to make your mark on national products with the backing of a nationally recognised top employer, we’d love to hear from you. Learn more: Home - [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] ([Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]) and Homepage - [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal].

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and integrate AI-powered features including LLM integrations, retrieval pipelines, and agentic workflows.
• Build responsive, accessible, user-friendly interfaces using Vue 3 with TypeScript, integrating with backend APIs and modern frontend tooling.
• Use AI coding agents and developer tooling effectively (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) while maintaining high code quality.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Develop backend services and APIs using .NET (C#), ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
• Integrate front-end and back-end components using RESTful APIs and modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Model and manage data across MS SQL, Postgres.
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests for front-end and back-end components.
• Participate in Agile development practices including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Ensure adherence to data protection, security standards, and confidentiality requirements.

Requirements

As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, the successful candidates will have the following:

Essential

• A minimum of 2 years’ commercial experience in full stack software development.
• Hands-on experience building and running applications on Microsoft Azure or AWS.
• Practical experience using AI coding agents and assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) as part of day-to-day development.
• Solid grounding in software engineering fundamentals: OO design, clean code, version control with Git, and code review.
• Solid experience building backend services with .NET.
• Strong front-end development skills with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Vue TypeScript, Angular, React).
• Strong experience with relational databases (e.g. MS SQL, Postgres SQL) and exposure to NoSQL stores (e.g. Cosmos DB, MongoDB).
• Good working knowledge of ORM (e.g. Entity Framework, Dapper) with databases.
• Experience working with RESTful APIs and integrating front-end and back-end components.
• Proficient in HTML5, CSS/SCSS, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript standards.
• Experience writing and maintaining unit tests for backend and frontend.
• Passion for technology, ongoing learning and client satisfaction.
• Awareness of importance of security, data protection and confidentiality.
• Good attention to detail and high level of accuracy.

Desirable

• Experience in data manipulation and analysis.
• Experience of geo-mapping formats, approaches or tools.
• Experience with vector databases, embeddings, or building RAG systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (e.g. Bicep, Terraform), or containerisation (Docker).
• Experience building agentic workflows or working with MCP, tool use, or function calling.
• Experience integrating LLMs or AI APIs into applications (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI) including prompt design and structured outputs.
• Positive approach to problem solving with process-driven design methods and keen eye for user experience.

All candidates will need to demonstrate their technical ability as part of our selection process.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary, dependent on experience
• Annual Bonus opportunity
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
• Being a Co-Owner of [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] – learn more: Employee Ownership - [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Staff discounts and High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes
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Visa Sponsorship: This position does not meet the UK Home Office sponsorship requirements (specifically, financial thresholds). Therefore, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.

Equal Opportunities: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] and its subsidiary businesses are equal opportunities employers, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. An enhanced DBS check will be carried out for the successful candidate.