Senior Full Stack Software Developer - FTC [UK]

Spyro Soft; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Sick leave after probation (20 days)

Pension contribution 10%

Private medical insurance (AXA)

Life assurance (5x salary)

Perks At Work

Eye voucher (Specsavers)

Flu vaccination (Boots)

Cycle-to-work scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

Spyro Soft is seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Developer for a 6 Month FTC in London. You will design and develop high-quality software with Java and C#, plus scripting in Bash, Python or Ruby.

You will champion TDD/BDD, drive testing, and lead code reviews while mentoring engineers and raising standards across cross-functional teams. You will collaborate with Product Owners, Architects and Testers, contribute to CI pipelines, and work in a hybrid setup with one day in the London office.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, ideally with media-related projects.
• Experience coaching and mentoring
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and define clear acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high quality software solutions in collaboration with Principal Engineers and Architects.
• Lead troubleshooting and ensure robust, scalable, production-ready code.
• Promote TDD/BDD and automated testing, participate in code reviews and pair programming.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards across multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Java

C#

Bash

Python

Ruby

TDD/BDD

Communication

Proactiveness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

MAC

Windows

Job description

• Role – Senior Full Stack Software Developer 6 Month FTC

• Manager – Lead Development Manager

• Location – London/Hybrid– 1 day a week in the office

Role Overview

As a Senior Developer, you’ll play a key role in designing and developing high quality software solutions that directly support product and business objectives. You’ll work closely with Principal Engineers and Architects to define and champion engineering best practices, using your expertise in programming languages such as Java and C#, alongside scripting languages including Bash, Python or Ruby. We’re looking for someone who is proactive, results oriented and takes genuine ownership of technical challenges, leading research activities, technical spikes and proof of concepts to explore new ideas and identify effective solutions to complex problems.

Quality will be at the heart of everything you do. You’ll lead troubleshooting and issue resolution throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring the solutions you deliver are robust, scalable, maintainable and production-ready. You’ll champion Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and automated testing practices to maintain high standards of code quality and coverage. Through code reviews, pair programming and collaborative engineering practices, you’ll help establish a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence. Experience developing within CI pipelines and following modern engineering and delivery best practices would be highly desirable.

Beyond your own development work, you’ll be an important technical leader within the team, supporting, coaching and mentoring other engineers while helping to raise engineering standards. Excellent communication and the ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams will be essential, as you’ll work closely with Product Owners, Engineers and Testers to define clear acceptance criteria and deliver high-quality software from inception through to production. Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure, particularly AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS and EventBridge, would be a strong advantage.

Key Skills and Responsibilities

Essential Skills

You will have:

• Expertise in object-oriented programming languages (Java, C#)

• Expertise in scripting languages: Bash, Python or Ruby

• Test-driven development practices (TDD, BDD, etc.)

• Excellent communicator and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

• Test-driven development practices (TDD, BDD, etc.)

• Proactive, and result oriented.

Desirable Skills

• Developing using CI pipelines and best practices.

• Developing in cloud-based infrastructure; ideally AWS cloud services including EC2, S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS and EventBridge.

Experience

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field or similar work based experience.

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer ideally with a focus on media-related projects.

• Very good working knowledge of standard software development frameworks, techniques and methodologies.

• Experience with providing coaching and mentoring

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team, contributing to the development of business scenarios.

• Knowledge of software development tools and technologies.

• You are flexible and curious in your approach

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Tools / Technologies

• MAC, Windows

Additional information

Duration of the contract: initially 6 months with the possibility of extension – contract FTC (full-time)

Benefits

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays plus birthday paid each year

• Sick leave following probation (20 days per each rolling period each year)

• Pension contribution is 10% employer from qualifying earnings following auto enrolment after 3 months service

• Private medical insurance via AXA after 6 months of service

• Life assurance (5 x salary) after 6 months' service

• Access to Perks At Work after 6 months service

• Access to a free Eye voucher with Specsavers and a Flu vaccination with Boots

• Access to the cycle-to-work scheme

• Enhanced parental leave