Full Stack Engineer

Location: Very flexible - we’re happy for folks to work WFH and lots of us do. We only ask that you come into our London office a couple of times a month for team strategy days and socials - but of course, you're more than welcome to come in as much as you like! (+ we're working a 4 day work week - Fridays off!)

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £72,000 - £82,500 + benefits listed below

About Cuvva

We're on a mission to give everyone affordable access to a car anytime, anywhere. We offer short-term car insurance through our world-class app, creating truly flexible products that meet people’s real needs. Using lightning-fast technology to unlock better experiences and fairer prices for our customers, Cuvva is building the future of insurance every day. Cuvva was the first to sell hourly insurance via an app in the UK back in 2016. And we haven’t stopped innovating since. We’ve sold over 16 million policies, and supported over 1.5 million drivers and we’re just getting started. We’re a team of 100 people, passionate about solving our customers’ problems. Join us.

Our Product Engineering teams

At Cuvva, we run lean, highly collaborative, cross-functional product teams. As our new Full Stack Engineer, you'll initially join our internal product incubator squad, focused on exploring and developing new product opportunities for the business. The team moves quickly and values ownership, autonomy and action, making it well suited to engineers who are comfortable working through ambiguity, testing ideas quickly and learning through iteration. This isn't a role where you'll spend months delivering pre-defined tickets. You'll work alongside Product and Design from the earliest stages of discovery, helping shape ideas, challenge assumptions and build products that reach customers quickly. We believe our best engineers don't just write code - they influence product direction, improve how we work, and solve meaningful customer problems.

At Cuvva, people come from a wide range of backgrounds and bring different but complementary skill sets. Within Engineering, you're not required to have a university degree; many of us are self-taught.

Our Tech Stack:

• Frontend: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Redux (with Redux-Sagas)
• Backend: Golang & NodeJS, with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Architecture: Microservices, APIs, and serverless services
• Infrastructure & tooling: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, CI/CD pipelines
• Practices: Automation-first, metrics-driven, incident write-ups and observability baked in

Our 2026 Engineering Strategy:

• AI-first: We’re investing in automation and building AI-powered features to serve customers better and faster
• Proactive mindset: We take initiative, spot problems early, and act fast
• Data-driven decisions: Hypotheses are tested. Gut feel isn’t good enough
• Pareto principle: Get 80% of the value with 20% of the effort – polish only when it matters
• Testing-first mindset: Stability matters. We test, we ship, we learn

About the role:

As a Full Stack Engineer (Backend leaning), you'll help shape the next generation of Cuvva's products, taking ideas from early experiments through to production and putting them in the hands of more than 1.5 million drivers. You’ll help bridge the gap between disciplines, collaborating with backend, web, product and design to deliver seamless, user-centric solutions. You won’t just ship code, you'll have the autonomy to challenge ideas, influence technical decisions and help shape the future of our products from discovery through to production. Whether that’s building new features, new services, building out internal dashboards, expanding our design systems, or optimising developer experience. You’ll move between product delivery and platform improvement, bringing a positive, proactive and collaborative mindset to the team.

On a day-to-day basis you’ll:

• Write clean, maintainable, scalable, and well-tested code across Frontend and Backend (React, Go, Node etc.).
• Collaborate closely with Designers, PMs, and fellow Engineers to scope, design and deliver features end-to-end.
• Build and maintain services, APIs and internal dashboards that improve both customer experience and internal operations.
• Support infrastructure changes, deployment pipelines, and automation initiatives.
• Contribute to design systems and ensure pixel-perfect implementation on the frontend.
• Proactively identify and solve both functional and technical problems in the product.
• Share knowledge across teams, helping to raise the bar for the full stack discipline at Cuvva.
• Participate in standups, retros, and team ceremonies, keeping work visible and moving smoothly.
• Support onboarding, mentor teammates where appropriate and contribute to improving our engineering practices.

You’ll do great here if you have:

• Solid Backend knowledge, ideally with Golang and/or NodeJS, plus experience with APIs and microservices.
• Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks (React, Redux).
• Familiarity with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless services.
• An understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and scaling distributed systems.
• Take ownership of features from idea through to production, balancing speed, quality and customer impact.
• An automation-first mindset, using AI thoughtfully to accelerate development, improve developer productivity and maintain high standards of engineering quality.
• A proactive, collaborative approach – you like working with teammates across disciplines and sharing what you know.
• An eye for continuous improvement, always looking for better ways to build software, improve developer experience and raise engineering standards.
• Comfortable with ambiguity – you're curious, adaptable, and enjoy turning uncertain ideas into valuable products.

It’s a bonus if you have:

• Worked in a startup or scale-up environment.
• Operated as a Product Engineer, owning problems end-to-end, not just writing code.
• The ability to use data and experimentation to inform engineering and product decisions.
• The ability to pivot with enthusiasm and maintain speed when priorities shift.

The hiring process:

• Initial chat with People Team (60m)
• Technical interview & live challenge with fellow Engineers (90m)
• Key stakeholder review with Head of Engineering (45m)
• Founders chat with our CEO, Freddy (20m)

Benefits:

As well as a competitive salary (£72,000 - £82,500 depending on experience), benefits of working at Cuvva include:

• Very flexible WFH set up, we only ask folks to come in a couple of times a month for team strategy days and socials - but of course, you're more than welcome to come in as much as you like!
• A four day work week (Fridays off!)
• An office worth visiting - Old Sessions House is a stunning private members club with a rooftop, infinity pool and regular members events. Not your average workplace!
• Transparent salary model and bands for all roles (without sharing anyone's individual salary of course!)
• 20.5 days of holiday a year + public holidays - rising with each year at Cuvva
• Quarterly team socials and company events
• Private medical insurance with Bupa
• Professional development budget
• Health, WFH and wellbeing budget
• Increases to all allowances year on year
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Mental Health and Coaching Support - We offer free and confidential access to comprehensive mental healthcare and coaching through Oliva.
• Hundreds of perks and discounts with Perkbox
• £100 a month towards your Cuvva car insurance
• Referral bonus when you bring your friends to join the Cuvva team

Referrals: Know someone who could be right for this job? We’d love to hear from them, please drop us a note at jobs@cuvva.com to let us know who you'll be referring and for which role. If they get the job, you will receive an Apple Watch! If someone has already applied to the role before we receive your email they will not be considered a referral, so please check with them beforehand to make sure.

Cuvva ways of working: We’re dedicated to creating a place where people want to work, a place where people believe in what they’re doing, have clear expectations and a bunch of freedom. Our approach to hybrid working is very flexible: we only ask people to come a couple of times a month for team building or company events. The rest of time it’s up to you where and how you work. You can of course come into the office as much as you like!

Diversity, inclusion and belonging at Cuvva: At Cuvva, we’re dedicated to building an environment where individuals from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging and have the support they need to thrive. To us, it’s crucial that our differences are embraced and celebrated - and that you’re able to bring your whole self to work every day. Research shows that men apply to jobs if they meet ~60% of criteria, but women and those in traditionally underrepresented groups tend to apply only if they check all the boxes. If you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please still get in touch. We'd love to chat and see if you could be a great fit.