Full Stack Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer – 6 Month Contract

£550 per day | Outside IR35 | 6 months | Fully Remote (UK)

We’re working with a large, established organisation looking for a Senior Backend / Full Stack Engineer to join their engineering team on an initial 6-month contract.

This is a backend-led role , suited to an experienced engineer who can take ownership of technical decisions and contribute to the design and development of scalable, cloud-native services.

The Role

You’ll be responsible for designing, building and improving backend services and APIs within a modern AWS environment, with some involvement across the wider application stack.

You’ll work closely with engineers and product stakeholders, contributing to technical design, architecture and engineering standards, while taking ownership of solutions through to production.

Key Requirements

• Strong commercial experience with Node.js and TypeScript
• Extensive experience building backend services and APIs
• Hands-on experience with NestJS
• Strong practical experience working with AWS and cloud-native applications
• Experience designing REST/HTTP APIs and/or GraphQL
• Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD
• Strong understanding of automated testing, particularly unit and integration testing
• Experience designing systems with scalability, resilience, observability and security in mind
• Experience with modern front-end development using React and/or Next.js
• Strong understanding of modern JavaScript/TypeScript application development across the stack
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and an understanding of clean, maintainable architecture
• Comfortable taking ownership of technical and architectural decisions
• Able to work autonomously within an agile engineering environment
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Contract Details

• Duration: 6 months
• Rate: £550 per day
• IR35: Outside IR35
• Location: Fully remote, UK-based