Staff Engineer

Job Role: Staff Engineer (React/NestJS)
Working Model: Full-Time - Remote (with occasional quarterly workshops/events)
Salary: Up to £84,000 + Excellent Benefits

Are you a senior engineer who thrives on leading technical strategy, driving engineering excellence, and mentoring others?
Do you enjoy shaping platforms at scale while staying hands-on with modern technologies?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a major organisation as they rebuild their Digital Experience Platform, moving away from a Legacy monolithic system to a modern, cloud-native, customer-first solution. You'll play a key delivery-focused role, supporting multiple squads and working alongside Principal Engineers and senior stakeholders to deliver complex, high-impact initiatives.

Ideal Candidate:

• Proven experience as a Senior/Staff Engineer within web and mobile application development

• Strong expertise in React and NestJS (Front End-weighted, 60% web/40% Back End)

• Experience designing and delivering micro Front End architectures with module federation

• Deep knowledge of CI/CD, automation, and testing frameworks across unit, integration, E2E, and non-functional testing

• Cloud-native expertise, ideally GCP or Azure (open to AWS)

• Skilled in Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform

• Knowledge of secure development practices, OWASP, authentication/authorisation

• Familiar with mobile frameworks (eg Ionic Capacitor)

• Strong track record of technical leadership and mentoring across squads

• Able to engage stakeholders up to C-suite level, influencing without direct authority

What's on offer?

• Up to £84,000 salary

• 33 days holiday (increasing with service)

• Private health cover option

• 6% matched pension contributions

• Funded qualifications & extensive L&D opportunities

• Discounts on insurance & breakdown cover

• Life event loan up to £3,000

About the Role:

• Join at a critical stage as phase 1 of a new Digital Experience Platform goes live

• Support 5-6 squads as their most senior delivery-focused technical leader

• Partner with the Principal Engineer (strategy-focused) to shape technical direction

• Drive engineering quality, security, scalability, and best practices across squads

• Act as a mentor, challenger, and enabler - showing teams what good looks like

If this sounds like the right challenge for you, drop me a message or apply today - we'd love to chat!

Reasonable Adjustments:

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