Contract Principal Full Stack Developer

AND Digital; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in the UK is seeking a Contract Principal Full Stack role focusing on JavaScript/TypeScript solutions. You will mentor teams, influence project directions, and work closely with operations to ensure quality and standards. This role offers a blended working model and impactful projects. Join us to help close the digital skills gap and work in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Opportunities for meaningful work

Blended Working model

Dedicated career scrum team

Autonomous Club atmosphere

Qualifications

• Software engineering experience across a wide range of technologies, especially full-stack.
• Proven experience mentoring and sharing feedback within the Developer community.
• Collaborative experience with operations teams and recruitment shaping.

Responsibilities

• Influence projects' direction using expert tech knowledge.
• Coach teams on engineering best practices.
• Champion software quality and technical vision for clients.

Skills

Full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js

React

CI/CD

Mentoring

Scrum

Kanban

Job description

Contract Principal Full Stack role (Node, React, Azure) - initially 6 months.

Who We Are:

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always make a remarkable impact for our clients. We do this through our regional offices (or ‘Clubs’) building strong relationships with our partners, so that they are always prioritised by a team within close proximity.

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK, Europe and the USA with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.

Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

The Tech Principal will use their expert tech knowledge to influence the direction of projects, whilst coaching a team through engineering best practices to build and deliver remarkable products. They will champion software quality and technical vision for AND and our clients, work on large-scale projects and support the team to grow in their roles.

What you’ll bring to the table:

• Software engineering experience across a wide range of technologies; with a particular focus on full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript based solutions (Node.js / React). Competent in application architecture and CI/CD. Comfortable being hands‑on with development teams, understanding what great code looks like and able to see the bigger picture.
• Proven experience mentoring and sharing and receiving regular feedback to help the Developer community develop and become more effective in their specialisms.
• Experience collaborating with operations teams to shape the people we recruit, the client projects we win and be passionate about being part of the wider digital community, and contributing to and representing the business.
• As a Principal you will be comfortable shaping how we deliver our engagements being the content (technical) experts bringing the best thinking of AND to our clients in terms of standards, templates, ways of working, tools and accelerators.
• Experience of working as a senior team member in Scrum or Kanban teams, applying best practices and using common teamwork techniques.

Why join AND Digital?

We have three core values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem‑solving.

By joining AND, we’ll provide:

• Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and produce meaningful work that makes a genuine difference to people’s lives.
• A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery.
• The benefits of having a small company feel through being part of an autonomous Club, while being able to take in the benefits of a larger organisation.
• A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self.
• A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself.

Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We actively encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities. We consider all flexible working arrangements, subject to the requirements of the role. Where reasonable adjustments are needed, we will strive to make changes to accommodate them.