Full Stack Lead Developer in Norwich

Are you passionate about cutting-edge technology and its real-world impact? As part of our GenAI team, you’ll play a key role in delivering, deploying, AI and GenAI solutions that support our Claims Operations and Transformation teams. You’ll develop innovative GenAI applications aligned with our strategy - empowering our operations with data-driven decisions that drive efficiency and deliver consistent, high-quality customer outcomes.

A bit about the job: This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading GenAI delivery team within General Insurance and help shape the future of intelligent solutions at Aviva. If you’re ready to make a difference and work on transformative projects, we’d love to hear from you!

We are looking for professionals who are:

• Designing and developing intuitive, responsive, and accessible web applications using React, TypeScript, and modern front-end frameworks, applying industry-standard UX/UI principles to deliver exceptional customer and colleague experiences.
• Partnering with product owners, business stakeholders, and AI engineers to understand user needs, shape requirements, contribute to product roadmaps, maintain a prioritised backlog, and translate customer journeys, user research, wireframes, prototypes, and Figma designs into engaging end-to-end digital solutions that champion usability, accessibility, and UX best practices.
• Building and integrating scalable backend services, APIs, and real-time communication channels using technologies such as FastAPI and WebSockets, ensuring seamless connectivity between the user interface, business services, and AI capabilities.
• Demonstrating end-to-end ownership of application delivery, with a strong understanding of containerisation, DevOps pipelines, cloud deployment, backend API design, and scalable architecture patterns.
• Showcasing familiarity with modern GenAI practices, including prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and Agentic AI concepts, with exposure to frameworks such as LangChain and LangGraph, helping to deliver intuitive AI-powered user experiences.

What you'll get for this role:

• Salary: Circa £50,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications).
• Bonus opportunity – 10% of annual salary. Actual amount depends on your performance.
• Generous pension scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days.
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it.
• Make your money go further – up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts.
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme.
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer's leave.
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work.
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others.
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools.

Aviva is for Everyone: We're inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don't, we'd still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part-time and job shares. We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week, combining the benefits of flexibility with time together with colleagues. We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job.