Senior Full Stack Developer

Role Overview

• You’ll play a leading role in the development, integration, and delivery of UK Biobank’s Automated Output Checking System, helping shape a platform that supports secure research at a global scale.
• Working closely with architects, researchers, vendors, and internal engineering teams, you’ll help design and build scalable integrations across research platforms and cloud-native services.
• This role combines hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and modern platform design, requiring someone who can work confidently across backend services, frontend applications, infrastructure, APIs, and cloud environments.
• The solution applies AI techniques, follows cloud-native principles, and is being built from the ground up giving you the opportunity to influence both architecture and technical direction.
• You will be responsible for:
• Ensuring integration patterns align with enterprise architecture principles, including event-driven, API-first, and microservices-based approaches.
• Designing and developing scalable, secure, cost-efficient and maintainable full-stack applications using Python (backend) and TypeScript (frontend), including relational and non-relational database management systems on AWS.
• Developing responsive and accessible user interfaces using modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React with TypeScript)
• Developing and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), ensuring reproducible and auditable environments Develop CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous integration, testing, and deployment.
• Ensuring systems are designed with observability, logging, and monitoring to support operational excellence.

Requirements

• Full-stack software development within enterprise environments
• Backend development using Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or similar
• Frontend development experience using TypeScript and modern frameworks such as React or Vue
• AWS services (e.g., IAM, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, Step Functions)
• Microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Designing and consuming secure APIs with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Flask
• Microservices
• Python
• React
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• Vue.js

Benefits

• 26 Days’ Annual Leave – Plus Bank Holidays
• Holiday Buy Scheme
• Birthday Leave
• USS Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Professional Subscriptions
• £500 annual training budget
• Free On-Site Gym
• Subsidised Canteen Lunches
• Free Car Parking
• Employee Discounts Portal
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual Flu Vaccination
• Life Assurance Cover