Senior Full Stack Engineer Buildscout Buildscout helps builders find high-quality leads and win ...

Role : Senior Full Stack Engineer

Reporting To : Buildscout Commercial Director

Salary : £80,000 - £100,000 dependent on experience

Working Location : Hybrid/ London (3 days a week on site at our Old Street office)

About Buildscout

Buildscout is revolutionising lead generation for the UK construction industry. We use real-time planning application data to help contractors, developers, and tradespeople secure high quality, location specific jobs before the competition and with minimal hassle.

We deliver reliable, guaranteed leads, automate the entire outreach process from planning data filtering to sending conversion optimised letters and follow ups, and provide a user friendly dashboard to track campaigns and measure ROI in real time.

Buildscout is independently run but backed by Searchland, the UK's leading B2B proptech company transforming how businesses and individuals access and use property data. While both businesses operate separately, this role will report to Buildscout's Commercial Director and be supported by Searchland's Chief Product Officer for technical input where needed.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer. This role combines full stack development with some product management experience and a touch of design sensibility. You will work end to end on user facing features, from understanding the problem and shaping the solution, to building and shipping it quickly.

This role is ideal for someone who can work independently, enjoys solving user problems, collaborating across teams, and taking full ownership of a feature from early concept through to release.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain full stack features across our platform, including user interface, backend APIs, and database logic.
• Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code using modern technologies such as TypeScript, React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
• Carry out maintenance and performance optimisation on the existing platform.
• Decide what tools and features to introduce and when, based on customer needs, industry insight, and data.
• Contribute engineering input to technical specifications during planning sessions, particularly on scope and estimated effort
• Build features with reusability and user experience in mind, with a solid understanding of common SaaS patterns such as authentication, billing, and dashboards
• Occasionally use Figma or adjust UI flows directly when design support is not immediately available, to keep delivery momentum high

Requirements

Essential

• Right to work in the UK
• 5+ years experience leading software development for a SaaS platform
• Experience working in a solo product and or development role and working into lean teams
• Familiarity with agile processes, sprints, and iterative development to ship
• high-quality products efficiently
• Experience with the following stack: NextJS, PostgresJS, BullMQ

Desired

• Previous experience in PropTech and/or start up environments
• Understanding of the UK property/construction market would be a huge plus.
• Familiarity with TRPC, ShadCDN, DrizzleORM, Elasticsearch

Interview Process

1st Stage : 30 minute introductory call with HR Team

2nd Stage : A technical live task stage with one of our Senior Software Engineers

3rd Stage : A 30 minute call with Buildscout's Commercial Director