Software Engineer

The Shore Group; Hove; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Shore Group is seeking a skilled software engineer to join a small, high-impact team in the UK. You will develop both customer-facing and internal applications using React, NodeJS, and TypeScript, delivering features end-to-end with strong emphasis on security and reliability.

The role offers opportunities to mentor junior developers, influence technical direction, and work within an agile environment focused on growth and robust tooling. A proactive, self-directed approach is valued.

Qualifications

• 5 years of software engineering experience, ideally with full-stack focused roles.
• Proven experience building production applications with React & NodeJS.
• Familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MS SQL or MySQL.
• Experience writing well maintained, testable code using Vitest or Jest.
• Familiarity with modern RBAC authentication frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications using NodeJS, React & Typescript.
• Develop robust, well-structured code in larger codebases.
• Deliver features end-to-end from requirements to production deployment.
• Work with modern tooling for large-scale, maintainable applications.
• Implement testing, monitoring and observability for production reliability.
• Build applications with security practices aligned to ISO 27001 standards.
• Contribute to documentation and issue tracking.
• Take ownership of assigned projects.
• Mentor junior developers through reviews and pairing.

Skills

React & NodeJS

Full-stack experience

Relational databases

Testing: Vitest/Jest

RBAC authentication

Job description

ROLE PURPOSE

You’ll be a key part of a small, high-impact engineering team building and maintaining both customer-facing and internal applications for a recruitment group operating in several sectors. You’ll be working both within a team and on your own to deliver features and applications end-to-end with modern tooling, hands-off management style and an opportunity to develop the environment and dynamic of a growing team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Application Development

• Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications using NodeJS, React & Typescript
• Develop robust, well-structured code in larger codebases
• End-to-end delivery of features and projects, from requirements through to production deployment
• Work with modern tooling for large-scale, maintainable applications
• Implement testing, monitoring and observability to ensure applications run reliably in production
• Build applications with security best practices aligned to ISO 27001 standards
• Contribute to technical documentation and clear issue tracking

Ownership & Growth

• Take ownership of assigned projects
• Opportunities to mentor and support junior developers through reviews, pair-programming and mentoring
• Contribute to system design decisions and technical roadmap planning
• Identify and champion improvements to development processes and tooling
• Begin to implement “smart” features powered by ML/AI in a product-first manner
• Participate in security audits and vulnerability assessments (with growth potential to lead internal audits)

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Experience & Qualifications

• 5 years of software engineering experience, ideally with full-stack focused roles
• Proven experience building production applications with React & NodeJS
• Familiarity with relational databases, such as PostgreSQL, MS SQL or MYSQL
• Experience writing well maintained, testable code using frameworks like Vitest or Jest
• Familiarity with modern RBAC Auth frameworks

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with any of the following
• Expo/React Native or native mobile development for Android or iOS
• TRPC or similar backend layers
• Turborepo or similar monorepo-style projects
• Cloud (AWS, Azure, Vercel) containerized or bare metal deployments of production applications
• .NET (for legacy system maintenance)
• React Frameworks like NextJS, Tanstack Start
• Tanstack Tools (Query, DB, Form)
• Interest in or background with security and infrastructure
• Experience working within ISO 27001 or similar compliance frameworks (e.g SOC2)

Personal Attributes

• Comfortable working with multiple teams
• Strong problem-solving skills with a methodical approach to debugging and failure analysis
• Prefers an Agile/Async approach to work
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain technical decisions clearly
• Proactive and self-directed; able to manage multiple priorities and take ownership of outcomes
• Curiosity about infrastructure, ML/AI, industry trends and security topics
• Collaborative mindset with willingness to grow into more senior responsibilities
• Pragmatic about AI tooling; uses it to move faster without outsourcing critical thinking