Full Stack Software developer

CDL Software; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software development company in the UK seeks a Full Stack Software Engineer to join its agile teams in Manchester. The position involves significant back-end work, cloud migrations, and collaborative development. CDL values growth and offers extensive career progression opportunities and a supportive work environment with hybrid working options.

Benefits

Hybrid Working

25 days holiday

Excellent training and development platform

Health and Wellbeing programme

Diversity and Inclusion network

Life and health assurance

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Community projects and volunteer days

Refer a friend bonus

Games room and chill out zone

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Java and Spring frameworks required.
• Proficiency in front-end development with React and TypeScript desired.
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Work with a squad responsible for the delivery, maintenance, and support of CDL products.
• Involved in migrating products to the cloud and enhancing features per the product roadmap.
• Role focuses on back-end development with a minor front-end component.

Skills

Java

Spring frameworks

React

TypeScript

Automated testing frameworks

Gitlab

Kibana

Terraform

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02.06.2025

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Description

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate Full Stack Software Engineer to join one of many agile squads in the Insurance Retail family, we are looking for someone who likes a challenge, wants to embrace a DevOps culture and brings ideas around improved ways of working. We are also looking for someone who is a team player and can collaborate with different people of technical ability.

About CDL
CDL is one of the UK’s leading software development houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company’s robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace.

We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company.

In a nutshell we are the market leading software house in our industry, creating the software, websites & apps for the Insurance & Finance sector across the UK. If you were to go on a price comparison website, approximately 65% of the companies on there are our clients!

Key Responsibilities

You will be working with a squad responsible for the delivery, maintenance, and support of several CDL products. You will be closely involved in projects to migrate some of those products to the cloud as well as providing support and feature enhancements adhering to a product delivery roadmap. This role is heavily back end loaded with the frontend component making up 20% of workload.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Strong knowledge of Java and Spring frameworks.
• Proficiency in front-end development with React and TypeScript.
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks.
• Proficient in using Gitlab for version control.
• Experience with Kibana for monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Highly Desirable

• Experience with Automated Testing
• Experience with Cloud technologies particularly AWS.
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices.

Salary

The salary for the role of Full Stack Software developer pays up to £49,000p.a. Falling within our level 4 banding, providing a fantastic opportunity for career progression through CDL’s clearly defined career framework (https://progression.cdl.co.uk/).

Your growth and advancement within CDL are only limited by your own ambition and effort.

• Hybrid Working (2 Days a Week in the office - SK4 2HD)
• Truly flexible working.
• 25 days holiday to start, increasing by 1 day per 1 year of service up to 30 days.
• Top employer for 9th year running
• Excellent training and development platform
• Opportunities for career progression
• Health and Wellbeing programme
• Virtual activities, lunch and learns, coffee mornings and meetups.
• Life and health assurance
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Diversity and Inclusion network
• Community projects and volunteer days
• Refer a friend bonus
• On-site free parking
• Quiet Spaces are also available
• Shuttle bus to and from the station
• Subsidised restaurant
• Games room and chill out zone
• Annual Hackathon & Deep Racer Events
• Social activities, regular social events through our social group Xtra, including a summer BBQ, competitions, bowling, go-karting, football games, Winter party and much more!
• Car wash, barber, yoga classes, boot camp and massage services all on site
• Cycle to work scheme
• Shower and dry rooms

Diversity and inclusion
We’re on a journey to keep innovating, that means welcoming new ideas and ways of thinking.

CDL recognises that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements and workplace adjustments with all our applicants.

This Policy was last updated in April 2025

The UKs biggest insurance retailers rely on CDLs trend setting solutions to drive success and growth. Our ambition and commitment has produced a track record of delivering exactly that. The result is a client base that includes some of the most profitable insurance operations in the UK.