Senior Full Stack Developer – Java & Angular

Join CGI as a Senior Full Stack Developer and help shape the digital services that support access to justice across the UK. Working with one of our key UK Government Department clients, you’ll take ownership of reusable technology that enables their services to onboard faster, integrate consistently and operate reliably. You’ll apply your Java and Angular expertise to solve complex engineering challenges, improve developer experiences and deliver secure, accessible services at scale. You’ll have the scope to introduce fresh ideas, explore AI-assisted engineering and influence technical decisions, while working alongside supportive CGI colleagues, architects, product specialists and delivery teams committed to engineering excellence and meaningful public-sector outcomes.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position.

Profil recherché

In this hands-on role, you will take ownership of designing, building and enhancing reusable full stack components, services and APIs used across multiple digital services. Working across Java, Angular and associated technologies, you’ll turn architectural direction and business requirements into secure, accessible and production-ready solutions, while improving the integration and onboarding experience for consuming teams.

You’ll work collaboratively across CGI, client and supplier teams, bringing your ideas to technical design and solving complex delivery challenges. Supported by a multidisciplinary engineering community, you’ll balance rapid delivery with long-term maintainability, mentor colleagues and continuously improve engineering practices, automation and service resilience.

• Design & Develop: Build reusable front-end and back-end components, RESTful APIs, microservices and integrations using Java, Angular, Node.js and Express.js.

• Enable & Simplify: Improve shared components, documentation, reference implementations and tooling to accelerate service onboarding and reduce duplication.

• Engineer & Assure: Apply test-driven development and automated unit, integration, contract and end-to-end testing to deliver secure, maintainable software.

• Automate & Deploy: Develop CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and deployment automation, supporting containerised services across Azure and Kubernetes.

• Optimise & Operate: Use monitoring, logs, metrics and traces to diagnose issues and improve performance, resilience and service operability.

• Collaborate & Influence: Work with Technical Leads, Architects, Product, Delivery, QA, DevOps and other suppliers to manage dependencies and deliver successful outcomes.

• Innovate & Improve: Use CGI-approved AI-assisted development tools where appropriate to enhance coding, testing, documentation and troubleshooting, with appropriate human oversight.

• Own & Resolve: Identify technical blockers and risks early, recommend pragmatic solutions and drive issues through to resolution.

• Guide & Support: Mentor developers, contribute to code reviews and technical discussions, and share reusable approaches across the engineering community.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

You’ll be an experienced hands-on Full Stack Developer with strong Java and Angular skills and a track record of delivering production-quality solutions within complex environments. You should be comfortable working across application development, APIs, cloud platforms, automated delivery and live-service support, while communicating technical decisions and trade-offs clearly across multidisciplinary teams.

• Full stack engineering: Strong hands-on software development experience, including Java, Angular, Node.js and Express.js.

• Distributed architecture: Proven experience developing microservices, RESTful APIs, integrations and distributed systems.

• Data: Experience working with SQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL.

• Azure & Kubernetes: Experience with Azure cloud technologies, ideally including AKS, Azure Service Bus and Application Insights.

• DevOps & automation: Strong experience with CI/CD and tools such as Git, Jenkins and Terraform.

• Engineering quality: Demonstrable experience of automated testing, secure development and building maintainable, production-quality software.

• Technical ownership: Proven ability to translate architecture and requirements into practical solutions and make pragmatic engineering decisions.

• Collaborative delivery: Ability to operate effectively across multidisciplinary and multi-supplier teams while communicating risks, dependencies and trade-offs clearly.

• AI-assisted engineering – desirable: Experience using tools such as Codex or GitHub Copilot to improve software engineering productivity and quality.

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