Full Stack Engineer (Cloud & DevOps)

The Full Stack Engineer for Cloud and DevOps is responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining scalable, high-performance, and secure web applications. The role requires expertise in frontend and backend development, cloud technologies, DevOps automation, and application security. Engineers must work in an agile, DevOps-driven environment, ensuring high software quality, security, and maintainability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take full ownership of end-to-end application development, integrating frontend, backend, and cloud infrastructure.
• Design, develop, and maintain responsive, accessible, and performant web applications. Implement modern frontend architectures, ensuring reusability, scalability, and security.
• Develop high-performance backend services and APIs, ensuring reliability, security, and observability.
• Work with Quality Assurance (QA) engineers to ensure automated test coverage and proactively fix bugs and defects.
• Optimise full-stack CI/CD deployment strategies, ensuring seamless and automated releases.
• Work with DevOps teams to automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and cloud deployments.
• Ensure full-stack security, including authentication, authorisation, API security, and frontend security best practices.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging technologies to improve application performance and developer productivity.

Requirements:

• Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or related disciplines
• Experience with Git and modern branching workflows (GitFlow, trunk-based development)
• Strong proficiency in both frontend and backend development
• Frontend Technologies:
  • JavaScript and TypeScript.
  • Frontend frameworks such as React.js, Next.js, Vue.js, Angular, or Svelte
  • Mobile app development using Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android), or React Native
  • UI component libraries such as Material-UI, Tailwind CSS, or Bootstrap
  • Experience with wireframing and prototyping tools (Figma)
• Backend Technologies:
  • Node.js, Express.js, NestJS.
  • Ruby on Rails (RoR).
  • Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot).
  • Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI).
  • Golang
  • RESTful APIs, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSockets for service communication
• Observability & Monitoring: 
  • Experience implementing application performance monitoring (APM) tools (Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
  • Knowledge of logging frameworks (ELK Stack, Loki, Fluentd) to track and debug issues across distributed systems
  • Ability to set up dashboards and alerts for real-time application health monitoring
• Backend Scalability & API Design: 
  • Strong experience in API design principles, including REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSockets
  • Knowledge of API rate limiting, caching strategies (Redis, Varnish), and performance optimisation
  • Familiarity with backend service scalability strategies (horizontal scaling, autoscaling, load balancing)
• DevOps, Cloud, and Infrastructure:
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins)
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudflare Workers)
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
    
• Security Best Practices:
  • Strong knowledge of frontend security (CSP, CORS, XSS prevention)
  • Experience with backend security (OAuth, JWT, API rate limiting, encryption)
  • Familiarity with cloud security (IAM, Secrets Management, OWASP Top 10)
    
• Software Quality & Testing:
  • Experience with unit and integration testing (Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Pact)
  • Backend testing using Postman, Supertest, contract testing

Preferred qualifications and experience:

• Experience with low-code platforms (OutSystems, ServiceNow, Appian).
• Familiarity with micro-frontends and modular frontend architectures.
• Experience working with edge computing (Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge).