Hybrid Senior Full Stack Engineer

at Orbital Witness

• Job title: Senior Full Stack Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £90,000 - £110,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, JavaScript, Next.js, Python, React, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Full Stack Engineer at an AI company transforming property transactions with innovative technology solutions. Collaborating in a hybrid environment to deliver impactful applications and optimize frontend architecture.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of key technology decisions and lay the groundwork for the company’s ambitious growth plans
• Shape how we structure our frontend architecture to optimise for scale, speed of iteration and quality
• Develop, test, refactor, deploy, maintain and support production software
• Collaborate with a cross functional team (an AI product manager, legal domain experts , AI engineers and software engineers) to define user stories, quickly experiment and ship new features along with implementing both functional and non-functional requirements
• Champion quality and reuse across the product and the codebase
• Collaborate with individuals across the business to ensure the features you develop have real business impact for customers and actually move key business metrics as we design and build a brand new product that doesn't yet exist in the market
• Participate in architecture and code reviews to continuously improve the quality, maintainability, security and scalability of our applications
• Ensure compliance with security policies and ISO 27001 by protecting sensitive data and following secure coding practices to prevent breaches, injection, and unauthorised access.

Requirements

• Have a strong background in frontend development - ideally React, TypeScript and/or Next.js
• Care about solving the technically challenging problems we’re tackling for our customers
• Value shipping early and often to get customer feedback and then iterating quickly to improve the product
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Have a proven track record of building user-facing products and have the ability to put yourself in the shoes of the customer
• Have proven experience delivering large, complex software engineering systems
• **It would also be nice if you have:**
• Have experience with Backend development - ideally Python
• Have Geospatial / mapping / GIS experience
• Experience working with LLM’s and OpenAI's API in particular
• Built or integrated with highly secure, fault tolerant APIs
• Experience building high performance, distributed systems at scale
• Proven experience of driving and using modern dev practices like BDD, TDD, 12 Factor, CI/CD

Benefits

• Competitive starting salary £90,000-£110,000
• Matched pension contributions and equity options in a fast growing start-up
• Flexible working hours and location
• 25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Professional equipment and personal development budget along with training opportunities to learn and develop your skills
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Free lunch on Wednesdays and a Deliveroo budget if you’re working late from the office
• An inclusive community enjoying all-company off-sites, lunches and socials