Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer(Java / React)

Contract length: 12 months (extensions available)

Location: Hybrid (travel to greater London once every two weeks)

Clearance Required: SC Clearance

IR35 determination: Inside

Start date: ASAP

A global consultancy is working with a government body seeking a Full Stack Engineer with expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and React experience to join their cross-functional delivery team. You will be working across the full development cycle maintaining and enhancing a critical legacy system, contributing to service improvement, and ensuring consistent delivery within a secure and regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance features in a Java Spring Boot-based backend and a React/TypeScript frontend.
• Take ownership of a legacy service, including a legacy deployment model, and gradually modernize where feasible.
• Manage and resolve incidents, changes, service requests, and problem tickets.
• Engage in release management activities, including building and deploying packages to production.
• Drive continuous service improvement initiatives across processes and technology
• Write and maintain unit, integration, and feature/API tests
• Contribute to and update technical documentation and API specifications
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to maintain quality.

Requirements

• SC Clearance
• Frontend development- React with TypeScript
• Backend development- Java / Spring Boot
• Node.js
• Hibernate /JPA
• AWS stack including Kubernetes, Open search, Jenkins, Git, SonarQube
• SQL Databases (e.g. AWS RDS, Aurora, PostgreSQL)
• Messaging technologies (E.G. AWS SNS, etc.)
• Docker

Desired skills

• UI component development/documentation (storybook)
• GDS Design System
• Debezium
• Experience with legacy service models