Lead JS/TS Full-Stack Engineer – Platform & Infra

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to own and drive the tech strategy across the Encore platform. You will work across React/Node.js, DevOps tasks, and AI-assisted coding tools while mentoring a teammate and shaping the roadmap.

You’ll ensure a reliable, scalable platform as you expand both UK and US capabilities. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom and comfortable operating autonomously as an IC in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Lead-level engineering ownership in a production software environment.
• Strong full-stack experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, across the stack.
• Experience with React for frontend and Node.js/Express for backend services.
• Comfort moving between frontend web work and infrastructure/DevOps tasks.
• Experience with AI-assisted coding tools.
• Product/commercial mindset: weigh technical work against business impact.
• Strong communication skills and collaboration with stakeholders.
• Autonomy as an individual contributor.
• Familiarity with the stack: React Native/Expo, Railway, GitHub, Playwright, Vite/Vitest, Google Cloud, AWS, Twilio, Stripe.
• Eligible to work in the United Kingdom.

Responsibilities

• Transform Encore into a focused, intuitive self-serve platform for musicians and customers.
• Provide systems-level stewardship of strategy to tech/product teams.
• Mentor another full-stack engineer.
• Maintain tech infrastructure and fix critical issues promptly.
• Refine tech projects of strategic importance and reduce tech debt.
• Deliver on release cadence for strategic tech/product projects.
• Improve Encore features like messenger, job listings, search, and musician admin panels.
• Build-out USA platform with SEO landing pages and parity with UK platform.
• Align technical output with commercial priorities and remove bottlenecks.
• Keep the platform reliable with minimal downtime.
• Work with bespoke payments integrations (Stripe for US).
• Migrate WordPress blog off Digital Ocean onto Railway.

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

React

Node.js/Express

DevOps/Cloud

AI-assisted coding tools

Communication

Autonomy as IC

Tools

React Native/Expo

Railway

GitHub

Playwright

Vite/Vitest

Google Cloud

AWS

Twilio

Stripe

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to own and drive the tech strategy across the Encore platform. You will work across React/Node.js, DevOps tasks, and AI-assisted coding tools while mentoring a teammate and shaping the roadmap.

You’ll ensure a reliable, scalable platform as you expand both UK and US capabilities. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom and comfortable operating autonomously as an IC in a fast-paced environment.