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 teams of interdisciplinary 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. 

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life. 

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

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. 

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. 

Find out more about Life at PA here. 

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: 

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family 
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days 
• Generous company pension scheme 
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives 
• Annual performance-based bonus 
• PA share ownership 
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) 

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. 

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected] 
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