Platform Reliability Engineer — Full-Stack (Python + React)

Worky; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Sperry is hiring a versatile Full Stack Engineer to build and run the platform behind our inspection products. You will work across the stack—Python services and AWS infrastructure at the back, React at the front—moving between projects as priorities shift, and you will own the reliability of what we ship.

You will triage problems to root cause, drive fixes, and contribute to design that prevents recurrences.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python for backend development.
• Experience with React (hooks, state management, component architecture).
• Experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture.
• Solid understanding of SQL and relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with modern frontend tooling (TypeScript, Webpack/Vite, CSS frameworks).
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, including on systems you did not write.
• Ability to context-switch across multiple projects and priorities.
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and agile development practices.
• Strong communication skills – able to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• A collaborative, team-first mindset aligned with our values.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, and microservices using Python.
• Build and maintain frontend applications and user interfaces using React.
• Design and implement cloud-native solutions on AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, API Gateway).
• Own the reliability and resilience of the platform: monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Triages issues to root cause and advocates durable fixes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
• Write clean, tested, well-documented code and participate in code reviews.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and testing practices.
• Support multiple projects across the engineering team.

Skills

Python

React

AWS

SQL

REST APIs

TypeScript

CI/CD

Git

Agile

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

AWS (Cloud)

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

Job description

Sperry is hiring a versatile Full Stack Engineer to build and run the platform behind our inspection products. You will work across the stack—Python services and AWS infrastructure at the back, React at the front—moving between projects as priorities shift, and you will own the reliability of what we ship.

You will triage problems to root cause, drive fixes, and contribute to design that prevents recurrences.