via reed · 29 May 2026 ·7 days ago

Senior Node.js Engineer

Ronald James
Manchester Full-time GBP 60,000 – 80,000
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We’re working with one of the UK’s fastest-growing SaaS businesses who are scaling their engineering team with the addition of a Senior Software Engineer.

This is an opportunity to join a product-led tech company building a modern enterprise platform used by millions of users globally. The engineering culture is highly collaborative, fast-moving, and focused on delivering genuinely impactful products.

The Role

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing and delivering new features across a modern SaaS platform. You’ll work closely with Product, Design and Engineering teams, contributing across both frontend and backend systems while helping drive technical quality and best practice.

Key Responsibilities

  • Deliver high-quality features across frontend and backend systems

  • Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction

  • Support and mentor other engineers within the team

  • Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams

  • Help improve engineering standards, testing, scalability and CI/CD practices

  • Participate in sprint planning and agile delivery processes
Tech Stack / Experience Required
  • Strong experience with React, Redux and TypeScript

  • Strong backend development experience with Node.js

  • Experience building microservices and APIs (REST / GraphQL)

  • Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

  • Understanding of automated testing and CI/CD pipelines

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
Desirable Experience
  • AWS services (S3, SNS/SQS, CloudFormation etc.)

  • Docker / Kubernetes / containerised environments

  • Modern frontend tooling such as Vite or Next.js

  • Cypress or end-to-end testing frameworks

  • Express, Apollo Server or similar backend frameworks

  • Experience working within fast-paced SaaS environments
What’s On Offer
  • Fully remote-friendly environment

  • Flexible working hours

  • Reduced working hours on Fridays

  • Unlimited holiday policy

  • Enhanced pension and wellbeing benefits

  • Health cash plan and employee support programmes

  • Salary sacrifice schemes including electric vehicles and cycle-to-work

  • Strong engineering culture with genuine progression opportunities
If you’re interested in hearing more, apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation.

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