Full Stack Developer (remote or hybrid)

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!

Contract: Permanent

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. We’ve sold over 16 million policies and supported over 1.5 million drivers and we’re just getting started.

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. 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.

• Frontend: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Redux (with Redux-Sagas)
• Golang & NodeJS, with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, CI/CD pipelines

AI-first: We’re investing in automation and building AI-powered features to serve customers better and faster.

Data-driven decisions: Get 80% of the value with 20% of the effort – polish only when it matters.

Testing-first mindset: We test, we ship, we learn.

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.

Write clean, maintainable, scalable, and well-tested code across Frontend and Backend (React, Go, Node etc.). Support infrastructure changes, deployment pipelines, and automation initiatives. Contribute to design systems and ensure pixel-perfect implementation on the frontend. Share knowledge across teams, helping to raise the bar for the full stack discipline at Cuvva.

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. An eye for continuous improvement, always looking for better ways to build software, improve developer experience and raise engineering standards.

It’s a bonus if you have:

• 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.

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!
• An office worth visiting - Old Sessions House is a stunning private members club with a rooftop, infinity pool and regular members events.
• 20.5 days of holiday a year + public holidays - rising with each year at Cuvva (holidays have been prorated based on our 4DWW).
• 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.

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. 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. 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. We'd love to chat and see if you could be a great fit.