Software Engineer

Sadler Recruitment; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Bonus

35-hour week

Cardiff office day

Job summary

Sadler Recruitment is seeking a hands-on Full-Stack Software Engineer for a Cardiff-based SaaS business. The role covers the full stack, with ownership of cloud infrastructure and a focus on delivering production-ready features.

You'll work closely with decision-makers, pair-program with a small team, and benefit from a 35-hour week, a pension, and a bonus. The position is mostly remote with one day per week in the Cardiff office.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of commercial development experience.
• Front- and back-end experience with a stronger back-end focus.
• Solid relational database skills.
• Hands-on experience building or running services on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Able to read others' code carefully and ask good questions.
• Be prepared to discuss personal projects or work outside of formal roles.

Responsibilities

• Build features end-to-end from database to UI.
• Own deployments and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate directly with product decision-makers.
• Pair with a small team where code reviews are meaningful.

Skills

Full-stack development

Backend development

Relational databases

AWS

Azure

GCP

Code review

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Bicep

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Job openings

Full-Stack Software Engineer | Cardiff (mostly remote) | £50,000-£60,000 per annum + bonus

We're hiring a full-stack engineer for a small Cardiff-based SaaS business. Self-funded, profitable, paying customers and growing. The team is small enough that the person we hire will be in the room when product decisions get made.

This is a hands-on engineering role across the full stack, with real ownership of the cloud infrastructure that keeps the product running. If you've spent the last couple of years writing production code and want a role with more scope than a big-company ticket queue, this is worth a look.

The stack Node on the back end, React with TypeScript on the front, PostgreSQL, hosted on AWS using ECS, RDS and S3.

What you'll be doing

• Building features end-to-end, from database schema through to UI

• Owning deployments and the cloud infrastructure that runs them

• Working directly with the people deciding what the product does next

• Pairing with a small team where your code review actually gets read

What we're looking for

• Around 2-4 years of commercial development experience

• Comfortable across front and back end, with a stronger lean toward the back

• Solid relational database skills

• Hands-on experience building or running things on AWS, Azure or GCP

• The kind of engineer who reads other people's code carefully and asks good questions

• To discuss anything you've built outside of work that you'd want to talk about

Nice to have

• Experience with APIs and third-party integrations

• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK, Bicep)

• CI/CD pipeline experience

The package

• £50,000 to £60,000 depending on experience

• Pension and bonus

• 35-hour week with genuine flexibility

• One day a week in the Cardiff office

• A direct line to the people running the business