Full Stack Engineer

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. 

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. 

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

Job Description

Are you up for the challenge of creating seamless user experiences from every angle? Our Digital team are looking for a skilled and experienced Full Stack Engineer confident in the JavaScript/TypeScript stack, from front-of-frontend through to Node APIs and infrastructure. 

You will work alongside colleagues from across PA, delivering transformative digital solutions to today’s most complex business challenges. Our teams are trusted to deliver and given the space to be awesome. We’re an inclusive community for the curious, generous, pragmatic and committed digital practitioner. 
As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll be working as part of a larger team who are collectively responsible for delivering functioning solutions to our clients. You'll have the support of experienced professionals within the team, who can give you guidance and help you make decisions. 

We work alongside our clients daily as an extension of their own teams to build relationships, discuss their needs, refine solutions, report progress, and provide technical support. You will be required to have excellent client facing skills as well as solid technical knowledge and development craft skills.

What you’ll be doing 

• You'll have the support of experienced professionals within the team, who can give you guidance and help you make decisions 

• You will have responsibility for owning and delivering on specific tasks, being the design authority and accountable for creating solutions 

• You'll be a trusted member of the team, and you'll be empowered to move things forward on your own steam 

• You may also be expected coach more junior analysts in the team, working with them to build their expertise 

• It’s important you feel comfortable having team discussions with the client on the project and contributing your thoughts and ideas into the team 

Qualifications

• Experience of full stack web application development using TypeScript including React and Next.js. 

• Experience of UI engineering using CSS, knowledge of accessibility compliance and working with designers to deliver design systems in code. 

• Proven experience of backend API development with Node.js including an understanding of databases, ORM patterns (e.g. Prisma) and service-oriented architectures. 

• Experience of developing cloud-native applications in one of AWS, Azure or GCP, ideally using a serverless architecture (e.g. functions, message queues, databases, API gateways, authentication). 

• Understanding of software testing approaches and associated frameworks (e.g. unit testing, Testing Library, Cypress etc). 

• Experience of agile software development including sprints, work estimation and developing acceptance criteria. 

Additional Information

Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Travel allowance 
• 25 days annual leave with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Company pension scheme
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Life and Income protection insurance
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
• Additional optional benefits (Dental, critical illness, spouse/partner life assurance)

Flexible working - We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.

PA is committed to building an inclusive and supportive culture where diversity thrives, and all of our people can excel. We believe that greater diversity stimulates innovation, enabling us to fulfil our purpose of ‘Bringing Ingenuity to Life’, supporting the growth of our people, and delivering more enduring results for our clients.

We only recruit, promote and reward our people based on their contribution, without regard to gender, race, disability, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.

We welcome international applications, but we are unable to offer sponsorship for work permits, so you will need to have the full right to live and work in the UK. Unfortunately, your application will be automatically rejected if you do not have these rights.

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