Full Stack Engineer Contract | 6 months+ | UK hybrid | Active SC required Morela is proud to be supporting a sovereign AI business whose software has to run where most software cannot: offline, locked down, and under real scrutiny. Their platform is an AI operating system built for exactly those conditions. They are well funded, growing quickly, and already live on serious government and commercial programmes. The engineering team is small and senior, so nobody here is a spare pair of hands. You would sit inside the delivery team on a defence programme and build across the whole stack. Python services and pipelines at one end, the TypeScript front end that operators actually use at the other. The environments you ship into have no internet, the deadlines do not move, and the requirements will. Not many engineers get this close to sovereign AI in defence. Building and maintaining features top to bottom: Python back end services and APIs, React and TypeScript on the front. Getting software into secure, air-gapped and sensitive environments, which means on-site deployment, integration and troubleshooting. Scope it with the technical lead, CTO and customer, build it, test it, ship it, then support it. Containerising services and shaping how the platform runs on Kubernetes and bare-metal Linux. Writing code you would be happy to inherit, and holding that same line in review. Working alongside the data, AI and platform engineers so models, pipelines and infrastructure land as one product rather than three. Python. Serious commercial experience building back end services, APIs and tooling. FastAPI, Django, Flask, whichever you have used in anger. TypeScript. Serious commercial experience on modern front ends with React, Vue or Angular. Linux. Properly comfortable without a GUI: shell, networking, processes, permissions, systemd, packages, and working out why a host is misbehaving. Full stack delivery. A track record of shipping whole features from database to browser, relational databases and SQL included. Running software in air-gapped or disconnected environments, including offline dependencies and moving artefacts across the boundary. Putting AI or ML models into production, LLM features included. Infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible or similar, plus configuration management. Message queues, event-driven architectures or data pipelines. Data at scale.
Contract Full-Stack Developer in City of London employer: Morela Solutions
Join a pioneering enterprise AI scale-up in London, where you will play a crucial role in transforming how large organisations leverage data for impactful decision-making. With a strong commitment to employee growth, a hybrid work culture, and the opportunity to work closely with industry leaders, this company not only values your expertise but also empowers you to shape innovative solutions that drive real-world results. Enjoy competitive compensation, stock options, and the chance to contribute to a net-zero pledge, making this an exceptional place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment.
