Full Stack Engineer - React & Java

Contract Full Stack Engineer | Java / React Location: Manchester, hybrid, 2 days per week onsite Contract: Contract Experience: 5+ years Tech: Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript / JavaScript The Opportunity We're working with a leading global digital organisation looking to bring on experienced Full Stack Engineers to join a team building a brand-new product from the ground up .

This is a genuine product engineering role where you'll have the opportunity to influence how solutions are designed and built. Rather than simply picking up predefined tickets, you'll work closely with Product Managers, engineers and wider stakeholders to understand requirements, challenge ideas and determine the best technical approach.

The team works across multiple locations and time zones, so they need engineers who are comfortable taking ownership, dealing with ambiguity and making independent technical decisions. What You'll Be Doing Designing and building new functionality using Java, Spring Boot, React and TypeScript/JavaScript .

Working across both backend services and modern frontend applications . Collaborating closely with Product Managers and multidisciplinary engineering teams . Taking ambiguous requirements and helping shape them into effective technical solutions.

Making engineering decisions around areas such as service design, databases, caching and application architecture . Evaluating different technical approaches and clearly communicating the associated trade-offs. Creating technical documentation including RFCs and ADRs where appropriate.

Challenging and clarifying requirements rather than simply implementing predefined solutions. Taking ownership from initial requirements and technical design through to delivery. What We're Looking For 5+ years' commercial software engineering experience.

Strong and recent Java / Spring Boot experience , this is essential. Recent hands-on frontend development experience. Commercial React experience is strongly preferred. Experience with TypeScript and/or JavaScript . Next.js experience would also be highly relevant.

Engineers coming from Vue or similar modern frontend frameworks may also be considered if they have strong frontend fundamentals and are comfortable working with React. Experience working within Agile, multidisciplinary product teams . Strong experience collaborating d...

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