Lead Full Stack Engineer
Hands-on Lead Full Stack Engineer at a fast-growing global digital marketplace platform, hybrid in Central London (2 days/week in office). Strong backend focus: building scalable Go services, REST/gRPC microservices, and Vue.js/Nuxt.js frontends, plus AI-assisted, spec-driven development workflows.
- Compensation
- £70K / yr
- Location
- Aldwych, Central London
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Full Stack Engineer
- Strong commercial experience with Golang (Go) — essential and primary focus
- Experience with spec-driven or agentic development approaches
- Advanced frontend expertise with Vue.js and Nuxt.js
- Strong JavaScript (ES6+), HTML, and CSS skills
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices
- Familiarity with gRPC for service-to-service communication
- Solid experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases
- Proficiency with Git and modern development workflows
- Experience with containerisation and deployment tools
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
Full description
Salary: £70,000 - 70,000 per yearRequirements:
- Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Full Stack Engineer
- Strong commercial experience with Golang (Go) — essential and a primary focus
- Experience with spec-driven or agentic development approaches
- Advanced frontend expertise with Vue.js and Nuxt.js
- Strong JavaScript (ES6+), HTML, and CSS skills
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices
- Familiarity with gRPC for service-to-service communication
- Solid experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases
- Proficiency with Git and modern development workflows
- Experience with containerisation and deployment tools
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and deploy scalable, high-quality applications across the full stack
- Architect and develop robust backend services using Golang (Go)
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices
- Contribute to modern, responsive frontend applications using Vue.js/Nuxt.js
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices
- Work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards
- Optimise applications for speed, scalability, and reliability
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across systems
- Ensure systems are resilient under high traffic and large-scale usage
- Implement and maintain automated testing across the stack
- Debug and resolve complex technical issues
- Ensure high levels of system stability and user experience
- Stay current with emerging technologies and development approaches
- Contribute to evolving engineering processes, tooling, and practices
- Support adoption of AI-assisted and spec-driven development workflows
Technologies:
- AI
- Architect
- Backend
- CSS
- ES6
- Frontend
- Git
- Golang
- Support
- JavaScript
- NoSQL
- SQL
- Vue
- gRPC
- microservices
- Fullstack
More:
We are a fast-growing, global digital platform looking for a Senior / Lead Full Stack Engineer with deep Golang expertise to help scale and evolve a high-traffic marketplace product across multiple international markets. We build community-driven platforms connecting millions of users each month and are entering an exciting phase of growth, innovation, and expansion into new regions. Our engineering team embraces modern practices, including AI-enabled development and spec-driven engineering. This is a hands-on role with a strong backend focus, based in a hybrid setup with two days per week in our Central London office. We offer the opportunity to work on a high-scale international platform within a collaborative, forward-thinking engineering environment.