Overview
Full Stack Software Engineer – Backend Integration Focused – London, UK
Hybrid | Permanent | Starting from £63,000
Ready to build modern web experiences that genuinely make a difference for small businesses? Keen to work with React, cloud technologies and AI tools while shaping how they’re used in real-world delivery? At EDF, you’ll join a team where your ideas matter, your skills grow, and your impact is visible. Because here, Success is Personal.
The Opportunity
As a Full Stack Software Engineer with a strong focus on React, you’ll play a key role in shaping the digital platforms that help small businesses grow, connect with customers, and operate more efficiently. You’ll build scalable, user-friendly web applications while contributing to our wider mission of supporting the journey towards An Electric Britain.
You’ll join us on a salary starting of £63,000 per annum, with the flexibility of a hybrid working model across #London #Hove #Exeter, alongside home working and monthly (or more frequent) office collaboration.
Day-to-day, you’ll spend most of your time creating robust front-end experiences using React and TypeScript, while also contributing across the full stack — from backend services to cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You’ll also be part of a forward-thinking engineering culture using AI tools to improve how we design, build and deliver software.
Who You Are
You’re a Full Stack Software Engineer who enjoys building high-quality, user-focused applications using modern technologies. You take pride in clean, maintainable code and understand how great front-end experiences connect to reliable backend systems. Are you experienced in…
- Building scalable web applications using React and TypeScript in a commercial environment
- Designing and integrating with RESTful or GraphQL APIs
- Developing backend services using Node.js or Python
- Deploying and managing applications on AWS (cloud-native or event-driven architectures)
- Writing clean, maintainable code aligned to SOLID principles and engineering best practices
- Implementing CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates
- Using testing tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress
- Applying observability and monitoring practices to production applications
What You’ll Be Doing
- Building modern, high-performing web applications using React, TypeScript and micro frontend approaches
- Developing and integrating full-stack solutions, including backend services and cloud infrastructure
- Delivering reliable releases through CI/CD pipelines, testing, and feature flagging
- Using AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot) to improve development, testing and delivery
- Collaborating with designers, product managers and engineers in an Agile environment
Pay, Benefits and Culture
Alongside a starting salary of £63,000 per annum, potential for an annual bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days, and more.
At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that’s unique to you. Here, Success is Personal – it’s your journey, powered by us.
Everyone is welcome at EDF; we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.
Join us and find your success at EDF!
Closing date: Monday 1st June
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Success is Personal. It’s your journey, powered by us. Join us and drive the transition towards An Electric Britain.
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