AND Digital

Lead Full Stack Engineer, Backend Leaning

AND Digital

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDynamoDBGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLJavaJavaScriptKafkaMicroservicesNode.jsPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • - Lead Full‑Stack Engineer (Backend-leaning) at AND Digital
  • - Helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams
  • - Strong hands-on backend engineering experience
  • - Proven ability to design and build scalable backend systems
  • - Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure as code
  • - Comfortable working across the stack
  • - Demonstrates technical leadership and sets architectural direction
  • - Consult on AI opportunities with clients
  • - Collaborate with various teams and manage complex technical problems

Requirements

  • - Strong hands‑on backend engineering experience, with depth in one or more of: Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python or Go, and the ability to work confidently across multiple languages when needed.
  • - Proven ability to design and build scalable, resilient, and maintainable backend systems, including REST/GraphQL APIs, event‑driven architectures, and distributed services.
  • - Hands‑on experience with AWS (Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, Step Functions, etc.) and strong understanding of cloud‑native patterns. Exposure to to GCP, Azure, or other Cloud Platforms would be a valuable plus.
  • - Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred), CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment practices.
  • - Comfortable working across the stack, contributing to frontend codebases when needed, even though your strength lies in backend and systems engineering.
  • - Demonstrates technical leadership, shaping architectural direction, reviewing designs, and role‑modelling high‑quality engineering practices.
  • - Strong grounding in system design, including trade‑off analysis, performance considerations, observability, and operational readiness.
  • - Able to take ownership of complex technical problems, make pragmatic decisions, and clearly explain reasoning to both engineers and non‑technical stakeholders.
  • - Practical experience integrating AI into backend systems — e.g., orchestrating AI services, building AI‑powered workflows, or leveraging AI tools to improve engineering productivity.
  • - Experience building AI-enabled systems (including LLM- or RAG-based solutions) from MVP or proof-of-concept through to production-ready implementations, with consideration for reliability, evaluation, security, and maintainability.
  • - Understands where AI meaningfully enhances backend systems (e.g., classification, summarisation, anomaly detection) versus where traditional algorithms are more appropriate.
  • - Able to evaluate risk, cost, scalability, and maintainability when proposing AI‑driven solutions.
  • - Curious about emerging AI patterns, frameworks, and tooling, with the ability to apply them pragmatically in line with client needs.
  • - Comfortable advising clients on realistic AI opportunities and helping them navigate hype vs. practical value.
  • - Experience working in a consulting or client-facing environment, comfortable operating in ambiguous problem spaces and contributing to both solution discovery and delivery.
  • - Able to balance client outcomes, commercial considerations, and technical integrity, adapting approach and communication style depending on context.
  • - Acts as a trusted technical partner within delivery teams and with clients, influencing outcomes through clarity, pragmatism, and credibility.
  • - Experience with high‑scale distributed systems, event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), or microservices.
  • - Exposure to serverless architectures, container orchestration or hybrid cloud environments.
  • - Familiarity with security best practices, including IAM, secrets management, and secure API design.
Benefits
  • - 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
  • - 2 days per year for volunteering
  • - Share scheme
  • - A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan
  • - PLUS many more
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaNode.jsTypeScriptPythonGoAWSInfrastructure as CodeTerraformCI/CDAI integration
Soft Skills
technical leadershipproblem-solvingcommunicationclient advisorycollaborationownershipadaptabilityclaritypragmatismcredibility