Build the technical foundation of one of the UK's leading end-of-life platforms

The opportunity

Aura is building a new kind of end-of-life company - one that brings clarity, warmth, and modern thinking to a category most companies get wrong. We support thousands of people through the hardest decisions and stages of life.

We're looking for a senior full-stack engineer to join a small tech and product team and take genuine ownership of our technical function. This is not a ticket-picking role in a large engineering org. You'll work directly with a product team across discovery, build and iteration - and you'll work directly with the CTO on the platforms, infrastructure, and integrations that keep the business running.

What you'll own

Product and feature development

• Work across the full product cycle - from early problem definition through to shipped features - in close collaboration with product and design
• Contribute to exploratory new product work where the problem space is still being defined
• Build for real users navigating some of the most significant moments of their lives

Platform and infrastructure

• Manage WordPress platform end-to-end: performance, plugin management, security, staging, and ongoing improvements
• Maintain and modernise existing solutions, including legacy codebases, reducing technical debt incrementally without disrupting what's working
• Deploy and maintain applications using AWS and Docker

Integrations and internal tooling

• Build and maintain integrations across internal systems including HubSpot and ClickUp
• Take joint ownership of the technical backbone that keeps the business running day-to-day

What success looks like

In six months, you'll know you're succeeding when:

• The WordPress platform is stable, well-documented, and improving consistently
• New product features are shipping at pace without accumulating new debt
• The codebase is cleaner and better understood than when you joined
• You're an active, trusted voice in product and design conversations - not just a delivery function

What we're looking for

• 6+ years of full-stack experience with Laravel/PHP and React or Next.js at the core
• Hands-on experience with WordPress beyond themes - performance, architecture and security
• Comfortable with AWS and Docker deployments
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or GitLab CI)
• Experienced making architectural decisions in a startup or scale-up environment without a large team around you
• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code or similar) as a genuine productivity multiplier - with the judgement to know when to override them

Bonus, not essential:

• Experience working in a product trio alongside a PM and designer
• Familiarity with JTBD or other customer discovery approaches
• Experience with Symfony or PHP 7 legacy migration

Who you are

• Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity - you don't need a large team or detailed specs to do good work
• Genuinely interested in building products that help people, not just ship code
• Commercially aware enough to know which technical decisions serve the business and which don't
• Someone who wants ownership, not just responsibility

Salary and package

• £60-70k
• Discussion about meaningful share options
• Contract-to-perm (preferred but negotiable)
• Fully remote (UK-based)
• Unlimited holiday with a high-trust, flexible culture
• Opportunity to work abroad for one month a year
• Wellness apps and anonymous counselling support