Staff Full-Stack Engineer & Platform Architect

Allica; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onboarding support

Flexible working

Pension contributions

Private health cover

Discretionary bonus

Life assurance

Maternity/Paternity leave

Social activities

Job summary

Allica Bank is seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer to set technical direction across multiple squads, oversee 2–3 squads and line-manage 3–5 engineers. You will shape architecture and drive secure, compliant delivery across Allica's digital products using Spring Boot microservices (Java/Kotlin) and React/TypeScript.

You will champion cloud-native patterns on Azure, own cross-cutting concerns like authentication and observability, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate with Product, Design and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and delivering distributed systems at scale with Spring Boot (Kotlin/Java) and React/TypeScript.
• Proven track record of simplifying architectures and defining cross-team patterns across squads.
• Strong leadership and people management experience in engineering teams.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and modern DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Set and evolve cross-squad technical direction and guardrails.
• Oversee 2–3 squads and line-manage 3–5 Full Stack Engineers.
• Define cross-squad patterns, tooling, and platform capabilities.
• Own platform-level initiatives to reduce complexity and duplication.
• Define and maintain standards for performance, reliability, security and operational excellence.
• Lead design of architectures for complex initiatives and ensure coherent interactions between services and frontends.

Skills

Spring Boot

Kotlin/Java

React/TypeScript

Distributed systems

Azure Cloud

GenAI tools

CI/CD pipelines

Security/compliance

People leadership

Communication

Tools

Azure Container Apps

Azure Static Web Apps

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Job description

Allica Bank is seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer to set technical direction across multiple squads, oversee 2–3 squads and line-manage 3–5 engineers. You will shape architecture and drive secure, compliant delivery across Allica's digital products using Spring Boot microservices (Java/Kotlin) and React/TypeScript.

You will champion cloud-native patterns on Azure, own cross-cutting concerns like authentication and observability, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate with Product, Design and