Senior Full Stack Software Engineer in Brighton

Bloom (Gaia Learning)

Brighton & Hove

Gaia Learning is looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to take day-to-day technical ownership of Bloom, its live online education platform for young people with SEND and EHCPs. This is a hands‑on role working across the product, API, cloud infrastructure and delivery pipeline.

What you’ll own

• Full-stack product development across a React and TypeScript single-page application and PHP API.
• Google Cloud environments and infrastructure-as-code, with strong security and UK data-residency controls.
• Test-gated builds, deployments and production alerting.
• Engineering standards covering testing, type safety, accessibility and security.
• Architectural decisions for a platform handling children’s special-category data.

What they’re looking for

• Substantial experience building and operating production web applications across frontend and backend systems.
• Strong TypeScript, React and server-side PHP experience.
• Relational data-modelling and safe database-migration experience.
• Cloud infrastructure ownership and infrastructure-as-code skills.
• Security-minded engineering and clear written communication.
• Confident, considered use of agentic coding tools such as Claude Code.

Location and working pattern

This is a permanent, full-time, UK-based remote-first role. Bloom would prefer someone in Brighton or within commuting distance, with the expectation of co-working with the CTO in Brighton one or two days a week.

Salary and benefits

The salary is £60,000. The role includes 31 days of holiday including bank holidays.

Eligibility

The role requires UK residency and right to work, and is subject to safeguarding and pre-employment checks.