Full Stack Engineer – React & Java

Overview

In this contract role you will help design and build a brand-new product using Java, Spring Boot, and React, contributing across the stack. You’ll collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to shape requirements and determine the best technical approach. The role emphasizes ownership, technical decision-making, and clear communication of trade-offs in a fast-paced, multi-location environment. This is an opportunity to influence product engineering at scale and drive meaningful impact from day one.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new functionality with Java/Spring Boot on the backend and React/TypeScript on the frontend
• Contribute across backend services and modern frontend apps
• Collaborate with Product Managers and multidisciplinary teams
• Shape ambiguous requirements into solid technical solutions
• Make architecture and design decisions around services, databases, caching
• Evaluate approaches and communicate trade-offs
• Create technical documentation (RFCs, ADRs)
• Own technical design from requirements through delivery

Key requirements

• 5+ years of commercial software engineering experience
• Strong Java/Spring Boot experience
• Recent hands-on frontend development experience, ideally React
• Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript; Next.js relevant
• Agile, multidisciplinary product team experience
• Ability to make independent technical decisions and explain reasoning
• Experience designing/building new solutions rather than just maintenance
• Manchester office attendance 2 days per week

• collaboration with cross-functional teams
• ownership and initiative
• ability to challenge requirements
• Java
• Spring Boot
• React

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