Full Stack Software Engineer, Bristol

My hi tech defence client are looking for a motivated, curious and technically minded Full Stack Engineer to help us scale data and analytics capabilities across the UK and international markets.

In this role, you will contribute to the design, development and maintenance of the data pipelines, platforms and services that power my clients hi tech analytics. Working closely with experienced engineers, analysts and delivery teams, you will help build customer focused, scalable, and innovative solutions that enable better decision making in defence. You will also be encouraged to leverage modern AI tools to accelerate high quality, sustainable development.

• Design, develop, automatically test and maintain full-stack web applications with a focus on data pipelines, analytics dashboards, and reporting tools.
• Build scalable RESTful APIs and backend services using modern frameworks and languages (e.g. Python, Node.js, C++).
• Develop clean, responsive front-end interfaces using frameworks like Vue.js or React.
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to integrate ML models, ETL pipelines, and cloud-based data storage solutions.
• Implement secure, compliant and scalable data access layers, ensuring compliance with data privacy standards.
• Contribute to system architecture, technical decisions, documentation and code reviews.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, advocating for best practices in testing, deployment and release management.

• Professional experience in full stack software development, ideally in a data-focused or product orientated environment.
• Strong backend development experience (preferably with Python), particularly with structured and unstructured data (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, data lakes).
• Proficient in modern front-end technologies (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React or similar).
• Experience working with containerised applications (e.g. Docker compose, Swarm or Kubernetes) in a Linux-based environment.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design, microservices architectures, and asynchronous workflows.
• Familiarity with ETL processes, data warehousing and distributed systems.
• Ability to obtain UK Security Clearance (SC).

• Experience with data visualisation tools such as Apache Superset, Jupytr or Power BI
• Familiarity with visualisation libraries like D3.js, Chart.js or Plotly for building interactive dashboards.
• Exposure to DevOps practices including TDD, CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
• Experience of optimising systems for performance and scalability and reliability.
• Understanding of machine learning workflows or MLOps for deploying and monitoring models in production.
• Experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS and its data services (e.g., BigQuery, Redshift, Athena).
• Knowledge of network protocols and programming around HTTP(s), SSH, TCP and UDP
• Development experience within secure or classified environments particularly where compliance or restricted networks are a factor.
• Experience of leveraging the power of the rapidly emerging AI agents without compromising on quality.

Interested? Apply today or reach out for a confidential discussion.