Lead Fullstack Engineer

Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise. Our proprietary technology solutions drive performance and reduce costs while helping our clients to improve the management and sharing of data across their organisations.

In 2024, Aker Systems won the Breakthrough Culture Awards highlighting growth companies putting culture first. In 2020 Aker Systems was recognised as a ‘One to Watch’ on the Sunday Times Tech Track. The Company was also recognised at the Thames Valley Tech Awards 2020; winning the Thames Valley Tech Company of the year, the Emerging Tech Company and High Growth Tech Business categories. We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, and supportive place for you to do your very best work.

Duties & Responsibilities

A UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance is required for this role. If you don’t hold SC clearance, we will support you to apply assuming you have lived and worked in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.

Role Overview: As a Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack), you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, documenting, and deploying software for our government client. You will focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability to meet their requirements. Collaboration is key, as you actively participate in elaborating and estimating user stories and work closely with cross-functional feature teams to ensure efficient operations. In addition, you'll be responsible for maintaining and optimizing our Continuous Deployment pipelines and ensuring the operational stability of your team's services. This is a client-facing role and the focus will be roughly 60% front-end, 40% back-end.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, document and deploy new or enhanced features to front-end and backend services that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Actively participate in the elaboration and estimation of user stories, promoting effective teamwork.
• Lead in building frequent, small releases to maintain the team's development momentum.
• Collaborate closely with fellow engineers in cross-functional feature teams, fostering a culture of mutual support.
• Oversee the building, optimization, and operation of Continuous Deployment pipelines.
• Assume operational responsibility for the services your team owns, ensuring high availability and scalability.

Core Competencies:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a full stack engineer capacity (equivalent qualifications are also acceptable).
• Proficiency in JAVA programming, with a strong emphasis on Spring Boot.
• Proficiency in one or many of the following: React, Angular, Javascript, Node.js.
• Fluent in writing JAVA code, demonstrating coding skills.
• Experience with platforms like Kafka or similar technologies.
• Competency in integrating with backing services such as PostgreSQL, Redis, or S3.
• Strong adherence to engineering best practices, including continuous delivery, clean code, documentation, defensive programming, automated testing, and code reviews.
• Experience working in Agile development and/or DevOps teams.
• Proficiency in using source control tools such as GitHub/GitLab.
• Background in Test-Driven Development, utilizing appropriate tools and frameworks.
• Familiarity with Big Data technologies.
• Experience with Public Cloud services, particularly AWS.

Aker Systems Attributes

At Aker we work as a team; we are collaborative, hardworking, open, and delivery obsessed. There is no blame culture here: try things, and take responsibility for the outcomes. You are always part of the wider Aker. We help our colleagues and take pride in successfully achieving difficult tasks. We run towards problems and help to solve them. Communicate always, do so accurately and in a timely fashion.

In return, we offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, company paid medical insurance and life assurance, pension scheme, annual training allowance, wellbeing allowance, virtual GP, Employee Assistance plan and more.

Equal Opportunities

Aker Systems fosters a diverse environment that encourages openness in its communications and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics. We embrace differences of opinion and diversity because they help challenge us and find new groundbreaking technical solutions.