Full Stack Engineer

Polytec Personnel Ltd; Milton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic tech company in Cambridge seeks a Full-Stack Engineer to design and develop core web and mobile applications. This role demands 5+ years of experience in full-stack development, particularly with React, Vue, and Node.js, alongside strong problem-solving abilities. As a key early hire, you'll contribute to technical strategy, ensuring performance and security across applications while collaborating cross-functionally. If you're ready to make an impact in a fast-paced startup environment, apply now.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack development experience, ideally in a startup or fast-paced environment.
• Strong experience in API development, authentication, and database design.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable, secure web and mobile applications.
• Develop and integrate APIs and workflows across various systems.
• Ensure high performance, security, and scalability across applications.

Skills

Full-stack development experience

React/Vue

Nuxt/Next

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Redis

Ionic

API development

Problem-solving skills

Job description

Location: Cambridge (CB4)
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: Competitive
Job Reference: 35907

Polytec Full-Stack Engineer

Polytec are seeking a Full-Stack Engineer to join our Cambridge based client as a key early hire, helping to design, develop and deploy the core web and mobile applications that power their technology. This is a high-impact role for an adaptable, proactive engineer who thrives in fast-paced startup environments, enjoys working across the full stack and takes deep ownership of their work.

You’ll be a key contributor to the technical strategy, shaping product direction while also delivering hands‑on engineering. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and building technology that directly improves lives—this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable, secure web and mobile applications using Nuxt, Vue and Ionic/Vue
• Develop and integrate APIs and workflows across physical devices, mobile apps, cloud infrastructure and frontend systems
• Ensure high performance, security, and scalability across all applications
• Influence engineering and product decisions as a key early hire, reporting directly to the CTO
• Write clean, well-structured, testable code following industry best practices
• Debug, optimise and refine existing applications to improve reliability and user experience
• Collaborate with clinical, firmware and engineering teams to deliver user‑centric solutions
• Lead the development of new features and enhance existing functionality
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help shape the broader technical strategy

Requirements

• 5+ years of full‑stack development experience, ideally in a startup or fast‑paced environment
• 5+ years working with React/Vue, Nuxt/Next, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and Redis
• 5+ years developing mobile applications using Ionic
• Strong experience in API development, authentication and database design (DynamoDB and PostgreSQL)
• Demonstrable technical excellence via public demos, project pages, open‑source contributions etc.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and a detail‑oriented approach
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Ability to work cross‑functionally with multiple teams
• Must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship
• Bonus: experience with FastAPI, RabbitMQ, Kafka, DevOps practices, AWS workflows, CI/CD pipelines, distributed systems, or containerised microservices

Apply

Please contact us as soon as possible for more details or apply below