Senior Software Engineer

MCS Group is working with a growing technology business building a cloud-native platform used by global financial services and technology organisations, in their search for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer. This platform creates realistic, sandboxed environments that allow teams to learn and experiment safely, replicating real-world systems without any production risk. It's a core strategic investment area and central to their future growth.

The Role

As a Senior Developer, you'll play a key part of a highly collaborative engineering team building and evolving the systems that underpin the company's core platforms. This is genuine full-stack engineering; from front-end features through to backend services and infrastructure.

You'll work with modern, cloud-native technologies and have real ownership over features that directly impact business growth and scalability.

• Frontend: React, Next.js

• Backend: TypeScript / Node.js and Rust

• Cloud: AWS (managed and serverless services)

• Infrastructure: Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)

• Databases: PostgreSQL and DynamoDB

• Practices: TDD, CI/CD ownership, trunk-based development, with a big emphasis on pair programming

Our clients engineering team are actively using AI-powered development tools (including Claude and GitHub Copilot) and are keen to hire engineers who see AI as a productivity accelerator.

The Person

• You'll have strong commercial experience as a Software Engineer (ideally with some time spent at senior level)

• You'll have solid experience with TypeScript and Node.js

• Experience building modern React / Next.js applications (other front-end frameworks considered)

• Hands-on AWS experience and ideally experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)

• Strong understanding of testing and modern engineering practices

Super nice to have:

• Experience with Rust (or an interest in learning it)

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools effectively

Salary

Circa £60,000 with a full benefits package.

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity, please send an up-to-date CV via the link provided or contact Chris Busby, Associate Director - IT Recruitment, at MCS Group

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