Full Stack Developer

Defaqto; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Defaqto is hiring a Full-Stack Python Developer to join a small, collaborative team building fintech products used across the insurance market. You'll work across the stack using Python, Django, SQL and React to design, build and support applications.

Location: Remote - UK. You’ll contribute to CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps and collaborate with stakeholders, delivering scalable, reliable software for UK brands.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Python experience, ideally in fintech/insurance tech.
• Experience with API integrations and databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL).
• Strong SQL skills and frontend fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Angular).
• Good understanding of software design principles and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain applications using Python and Django.
• Work across the full stack, including front-end components (React, JS, CSS).
• Translate business and user needs into practical technical solutions.
• Improve system performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Contribute to code reviews and engineering best practices.
• Write testable, maintainable code with appropriate unit tests.
• Support live applications and troubleshoot complex issues.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business and occasionally with clients.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.

Skills

Python

API Integrations

SQL

HTML/CSS/JS

React

Angular

Tools

Django

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

Description

A key role to help shape the future of a successful insurance fin tech product, part of the wider Defaqto software division. Within our software division, Comparison Creator powers insurance and price comparison platforms used by well-known UK brands.

Department: Technology

Location: Remote - UK

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Full-Stack Python Developer to join a small, collaborative team building and supporting fintech products used across the insurance market. You’ll work across the stack using Python, Django, SQL, and React, contributing to both new product development and ongoing application support. This is a hands-on role with real influence over how our products evolve.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain applications using Python and Django


• Work across the full stack, including front-end components (React, JS, CSS)


• Translate business and user needs into practical technical solutions


• Improve system performance, scalability, and reliability


• Contribute to code reviews and engineering best practices


• Write testable, maintainable code with appropriate unit tests


• Support live applications and troubleshoot complex issues


• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business and occasionally with clients


• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps

The essential experience

• Python 5+ years


• API Integrations


• Strong SQL skills (MySQL or PostgreSQL)


• Solid front-end fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Angular)


• Good understanding of software design principles and best practices

Advantageous Technical skills

• Django experience


• API design and development


• Test driven development


• Front-end frameworks (React, Angular)


• Build and maintain CI/CD pipeline

Your approach to work

• Happy working in a small team and wearing multiple hats


• Proactive, curious, and keen to keep learning


• Comfortable and confident communicating technical ideas clearly to non-technical people


• Confident in your abilities and happy to challenge ways of working

Important to know

Location: Remote working option from within the UK.

Right to Work

Applicants must already hold a legal right to work in the UK without time restrictions and without the need for future sponsorship. We are unable to provide Skilled Worker visa sponsorship.

Fintel plc and all the businesses within it adopt a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination on any of the protected grounds in the Equality Act 2010.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all current and prospective employees regardless of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse workforce because, in our view, diversity enables better business outcomes. We also believe that a more inclusive workplace, where people of different backgrounds work together, ensures better outcomes for all staff. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.