Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Frontline Client Delivery & AI

Hedgehog Lab; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

5 Impact Days for learning, innovation

2 wellbeing days and a wellbeingbudget

Learning budget plus training time

Enhanced sick pay and parental leave

Free counselling, Cycle to Work and a

a company laptop

Job summary

Hedgehog Lab in the UK is seeking a technically fluent, client-facing engineer to join early on new projects. You’ll talk with clients, shape technical direction, and build the first version that a delivery team can scale from.

You’ll work across sectors, contribute to architecture decisions, and help write decision records. Expect hands-on coding with TypeScript/Python, AWS deployments, and a willingness to push AI-enabled tooling forward.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience in TypeScript or Python across the full stack with NestJS or FastAPI.
• Experience building and deploying on a cloud platform, ideally AWS.
• Experience breaking down a vague problem and shipping something that works.
• Confidence speaking to clients and explaining technical decisions to people who aren't technical.
• Clear writing, for decision records and docs others rely on.
• You use AI coding tools day to day and want to go much further with them.

Responsibilities

• Working with clients to understand their goals and break down what needs building
• Building proofs of concept and first versions on AWS that hand over cleanly to a delivery team
• Contributing to architecture and technology choices, and writing them up as decision records
• Helping shape the test approach and code review on your projects
• Pairing with engineers on real work, including client teams
• Supporting pitches and estimates for new work

Skills

TypeScript

Python

NestJS

FastAPI

AI coding tools

Tools

AWS

Job description

Hedgehog Lab in the UK is seeking a technically fluent, client-facing engineer to join early on new projects. You’ll talk with clients, shape technical direction, and build the first version that a delivery team can scale from.

You’ll work across sectors, contribute to architecture decisions, and help write decision records. Expect hands-on coding with TypeScript/Python, AWS deployments, and a willingness to push AI-enabled tooling forward.