Michael James Associates
Software Engineer
Michael James AssociatesUnited Kingdom18 hours ago
Full-timeInformation Technology

About the Role

My client is seeking a motivated full-stack engineer - someone with a few years of real-world experience who’s ready to take ownership of their work and grow within a supportive, pragmatic team.


Most of your time will be spent handling change requests and feature work for our clients: everything from small bugfixes to full new capabilities in our underwriting platform. You’ll be trusted to take problems, understand them, and deliver solutions - with the backing of a senior team that’s happy to help you learn and succeed.


This is a great fit if you enjoy variety, value autonomy, and want to make a direct impact without layers of bureaucracy.



What You’ll Do

  • Extend and improve our underwriting platform for both new and existing clients
  • Work across the stack - from frontend (React) to backend services (Go / Node / TypeScript)
  • Collaborate with other developers, product managers, and QA to deliver features
  • Help maintain UI and UX consistency across our products
  • Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in production systems


What We’re Looking For

Essential Skills & Experience

  • Able to communicate clearly, ask for help when stuck, and collaborate with the wider team
  • Curious, motivated, and proactive - someone who picks up tasks and sees them through
  • 2 - 4 years of professional software development experience
  • Comfortable working as a full-stack developer, covering frontend, backend and databases
  • Practical experience with React
  • Professional experience with at least one of: Golang, Node.js / TypeScript
  • Comfortable working with RESTful APIs and CRUD-style backend development
  • Familiar with Git with a good understanding of source control


Nice to Have

  • Experience working with iterative changes safely on production systems
  • Professional experience with Postgres (or other relational databases)
  • Past exposure to both “good” and “bad” engineering practices — and a sense of what works
  • Comfortable in the terminal and with unix tools
  • Has done code reviews and/or pair programming

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