Senior Full-Stack Engineer — Lead Public Sector Platform

OpenSourced - Search & Selection; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday plus birthday off

Hybrid working

Pension with employer contributions

Job summary

OpenSourced - Search & Selection seeks a Lead Full Stack Engineer to own a GovTech licensing platform used across Scotland’s public sector. You’ll handle Laravel migrations, Inertia/React admin pages, the Next.js citizen portal, and the embeddable register from architecture through production, prioritising correctness and accessibility.

You’ll mentor a senior team, drive serverless deployments, and shape the platform’s future alongside government partners and security reviews.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial full-stack experience with leadership or mentoring.
• PHP 8.3+ with modern features and Laravel 11+ experience.
• PostgreSQL, migrations and indexing knowledge.
• Experience with queues; SQS/Redis-backed queues and idempotent design.
• Strong accessibility knowledge (WCAG 2.2 AA).
• Clear written communication and SDLC governance.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery end-to-end from architecture to production.
• Lead integration with government services (OAuth2/OIDC, notification, payment).
• Set engineering standards in a strongly-typed Laravel codebase.
• Guide accessible UI in React, using Radix and a government design system.
• Lead serverless cloud deployment and security reviews.
• Mentor engineers and review PRs, acting as escalation point.
• Onboard new verticals with config-driven forms and workflows.
• Shape AI-assisted features for validation and checks.

Skills

Full-stack leadership

Laravel 11+

PHP 8.3+

Inertia.js/React

Next.js

PostgreSQL

OAuth2/OIDC

SQS/Redis

Tailwind CSS

WCAG accessibility

Git workflow

Tools

Sentry

MSW

Cypress

Playwright

GitHub Actions

Job description

OpenSourced - Search & Selection seeks a Lead Full Stack Engineer to own a GovTech licensing platform used across Scotland’s public sector. You’ll handle Laravel migrations, Inertia/React admin pages, the Next.js citizen portal, and the embeddable register from architecture through production, prioritising correctness and accessibility.

You’ll mentor a senior team, drive serverless deployments, and shape the platform’s future alongside government partners and security reviews.