Full Stack Engineer: Build an Integrated Intelligence Platform

Prevail; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AXA Private Medical Insurance

Health Shield Cashback Plan

Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Free Gym Membership & Wellness Perks

Enhanced Leave Entitlements

Professional Development Days

Cycle to Work Scheme

Season Ticket Loans

Socials & Team Culture

Culture & Development

Job summary

Prevail Partners in London, United Kingdom, is seeking a mid-level Full Stack Engineer to join our Platform & System Operations team on a permanent basis. You will design, build and maintain applications powering our investigations, with Python/AWS backend and React frontend where applicable.

The role emphasises end-to-end ownership, collaboration with engineers and analysts, and contributing to a consolidated platform that could expand to clients.

Qualifications

• A degree in computer science, software engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven professional experience as a full stack engineer, with solid hands-on experience across backend and frontend development.
• Strong Python skills, with experience building APIs or backend services.
• Practical experience with React (or an equivalent modern frontend framework), building production user interfaces.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cloud-native architecture.
• Comfortable working with SQL and reasoning about data models.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down ambiguous requirements into a clear technical plan.
• Good communication skills, able to work directly with Solution Engineers and, where needed, analysts to clarify requirements.
• A methodical approach to testing, code quality and documentation.
• High levels of IT literacy, including confidence picking up new tools and frameworks quickly.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain full stack features across our Databricks, Python and AWS backend and the frontend of our internal tools, several of which are built in React.
• Work with Solution Engineers and analysts to understand requirements and translate them into well-architected, maintainable technical solutions.
• Build and maintain APIs and services on AWS that power our internal tools.
• Contribute to the ongoing consolidation of our application-specific tools into a single intelligence platform, helping define shared components and patterns.
• Write clean, tested, well-documented code, and participate in code review to help raise the bar across the team.
• Take ownership of features from design through deployment, including monitoring and support once in production.
• Diagnose and resolve technical issues by working directly across the business to identify root causes.
• Help evolve our engineering practices, tooling and CI/CD processes as the team and platform grow.
• Mentor junior colleagues and contribute to a collaborative, high-standard engineering culture.
• Maintain high standards of data security and information handling given the sensitive nature of the intelligence and client data our tools support.

Skills

Python

React

AWS

API development

Databricks

SQL

Frontend/backend development

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Docker

Job description

Prevail Partners in London, United Kingdom, is seeking a mid-level Full Stack Engineer to join our Platform & System Operations team on a permanent basis. You will design, build and maintain applications powering our investigations, with Python/AWS backend and React frontend where applicable.

The role emphasises end-to-end ownership, collaboration with engineers and analysts, and contributing to a consolidated platform that could expand to clients.