Full Stack Engineer

Sotalent; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Sotalent is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join a hybrid Edinburgh team building modern digital platforms. You will work across front-end (React, Next.js) and back-end (C#/.NET) with Azure, shaping architecture, CI/CD pipelines and platform resilience.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive design decisions and collaborate with Product, UX and business teams to deliver scalable, accessible applications and high‑quality APIs.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with React and Next.js in production environments.
• Strong backend development with C#/.NET, REST APIs.
• Practical Azure cloud experience and cloud-native patterns.
• Experience with Git, GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD practices.
• Understanding of accessibility, SEO, security and performance optimization.
• Excellent communication and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain secure, scalable web applications and APIs.
• Build front-end applications using React and Next.js.
• Develop backend services and REST APIs with C#/.NET.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering standards.
• Develop cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure, incl. CI/CD and observability.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, Architecture and business teams on modernization.
• Investigate production issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Improve platform resilience, security and operational excellence.
• Mentor engineers and promote reusable services and best practices.

Skills

React

Next.js

C#

.NET

Git

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Accessibility

SEO

Security

Performance

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Terraform IaC

Sitecore XM Cloud

Vercel

Playwright

Storybook

GraphQL

CodeQL

SonarQube

Job description

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Model: Hybrid

Overview

Senior full-stack engineering role building and enhancing modern digital platforms using React, Next.js, C#/.NET and Microsoft Azure. The role combines hands‑on development with technical design, cloud engineering, platform resilience and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain secure, scalable web applications, APIs and digital integrations.
• Build modern front-end applications using React and Next.js.
• Develop backend services and REST APIs using C# and .NET.
• Drive technical design decisions and contribute to architecture and engineering standards.
• Develop cloud-native solutions using Microsoft Azure, including CI/CD and observability.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, Architecture and business teams on digital platforms and technology modernisation.
• Investigate complex production issues and lead root cause analysis.
• Improve platform performance, resilience, security and operational excellence.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to reusable services and engineering best practices.

Requirements

• Strong experience with React and Next.js.
• Strong C# and .NET experience building backend services and REST APIs.
• Practical Microsoft Azure and cloud‑native development experience.
• Experience with Git, GitHub Actions and modern CI/CD practices.
• Strong understanding of accessibility, SEO, security, performance optimisation and SQL.
• Strong communication, problem-solving and mentoring skills.
• Experience with enterprise‑scale digital platforms is advantageous.
• Terraform/IaC, Sitecore XM Cloud, Vercel, Playwright, Storybook, GraphQL, CodeQL or SonarQube experience is a plus.