Full Stack Engineer

Digital Futures; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tailored professional development plan

Impact at Digital Futures

Employee benefits platform

Pension contributions

Wellbeing budget

Competitive salary

Hybrid working model

Job summary

Digital Futures in London seeks a proficient Full Stack Engineer to design, build and maintain AI-enabled applications across frontend, backend and cloud environments.

You will work closely with product teams, data scientists and engineers to deliver robust, scalable software that aligns with business outcomes and integrates into wider platforms. Hybrid work with office days, competitive salary and wellbeing benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building production-grade full stack applications.
• Strong frontend and backend skills across modern JS frameworks and services.
• Experience with cloud platforms and deployment pipelines in professional settings.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain full stack applications (UI, APIs, data integrations).
• Collaborate with product leads, designers and data scientists to translate requirements into software.
• Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to engineering standards.

Skills

Full stack development

Frontend development

Backend development

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Agile delivery

Tools

JavaScript/TypeScript

APIs

Cloud

Git

Testing

Job description

Digital Futures is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to design, build and maintain high‑quality digital and AI‑enabled applications for clients. Working across frontend, backend and cloud environments, the role focuses on delivering robust, scalable solutions that support real business outcomes and integrate effectively into wider platforms and teams.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain full stack applications, covering user interfaces, backend services, APIs and data integrations.
• Collaborate closely with product leads, designers, data scientists and other engineers to translate requirements into working software.
• Build clean, well‑tested and maintainable code, contributing to shared codebases and engineering standards.
• Support end‑to‑end delivery from discovery and prototyping through to production deployment and ongoing improvement.
• Ensure solutions meet non‑functional requirements including performance, security, reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to technical discussions, solution design and trade‑off decisions within cross‑functional teams.
• Actively participate in continuous improvement of development practices, tooling and ways of working.

Skills & experience

• Strong experience as a full stack engineer or software engineer, delivering production‑grade applications.
• Proficiency in modern frontend technologies (e.g. JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks) and backend development (e.g. APIs, services, databases).
• Experience working with cloud platforms and deployment pipelines in a professional environment.
• Familiarity with modern development practices including version control, testing, CI/CD and agile delivery.
• Ability to work across multiple layers of a system, understanding how frontend, backend and data components fit together.
• Comfortable collaborating with non‑engineering stakeholders, with clear communication and problem‑solving skills.

Behaviours & mindset

• Acts as a builder, taking ownership of solutions from idea through to operation.
• Pragmatic and delivery‑focused, balancing technical quality with real‑world constraints.
• Collaborative and open, valuing feedback and constructive challenge from peers.
• Curious and continuously learning, keeping up with evolving technologies and practices.
• Outcome‑oriented, motivated by creating software that is used, trusted and valuable.

What's in it for you?

• Tailored professional development plan and upskilling
• Ability to make an impact at Digital Futures while it is in a period of accelerated growth
• Access to our employee benefits, discounts and perks platform
• Pension contributions
• Wellbeing budget
• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working model with required office working days

Digital Futures is a mission‑led technology services company specialising in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

We have reimagined how capability is built in the age of AI, disrupting outdated workforce and education models, placing ambition at our core.

We’re building the workforce of the future, leveraging the power of AI to drive innovation and inclusive growth.

We are creating a company that matters: one where pride is a strategic asset and our collective impact is measured in enduring outcomes – opportunity created, futures transformed, advantage secured.