Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Hybrid) – Shape Engineering Team

M8l; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

M8l in Brighton is building its first internal product engineering team. We seek a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with strong TypeScript experience to shape engineering from architecture to practices, AI-assisted workflows, and team growth. You will stay hands-on while providing technical direction as an early member of the team.

The role blends hands-on product work with leadership, mentoring, and establishing standards in a hybrid Brighton office environment, three days per week in person.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate senior-level delivery track record shipping user-facing systems.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript, runtimes, typing, and testing strategies.
• Strong system-design judgment with defined integration boundaries and domain models.
• High AI fluency; regularly using tools and AI-assisted workflows.
• Clear communication of technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve a modern product using TypeScript and full-stack tech.
• Own architectural decisions; identify risks and propose improvements.
• Help define engineering standards, testing approaches, and ways of working.
• Translate business needs into pragmatic technical solutions with product teams.
• Shape AI-assisted engineering workflows and practices.
• Mentor and develop engineers as the team grows.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and growth of future engineers.
• Cultivate an engineering culture balancing quality, speed, and ownership.
• Remain hands-on while providing technical direction to the wider team.

Skills

TypeScript

System design

Architecture leadership

AI workflows

Mentoring engineers

Communication

Job description

M8l in Brighton is building its first internal product engineering team. We seek a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with strong TypeScript experience to shape engineering from architecture to practices, AI-assisted workflows, and team growth. You will stay hands-on while providing technical direction as an early member of the team.

The role blends hands-on product work with leadership, mentoring, and establishing standards in a hybrid Brighton office environment, three days per week in person.