Senior Full Stack Engineer - Python/React or Angular in Cardiff

Here at Venator, we are working with an eCommerce company who have the UK's biggest technology platform. They have a live mobile application as well as a web-based application, and the company is now looking to grow!

Please note this is a hybrid role but will require you to be in the office (London) 4 days per week. You will have 20 work from anywhere days added on top which you can use to make some weeks 2 days a week from home. Please also note that sponsorship is not an option here unfortunately.

The role

• Understand complex business problems then propose and implement technical solutions.
• Have input into the architecture, working closely with the Head of Technology and other senior team members.
• Work with other engineers and the business to improve user experiences.
• Bring your experience and enthusiasm to our engineering culture.
• Promote excellence with technical mentoring, feedback, and code reviews.
• Participate in planning sessions, retrospectives, stand-ups and demos.
• Join us in curating a codebase to be proud of, driving for quality, maintainability and testability.

The candidate

• You have built great products for the web and/or mobile.
• You have analysed business problems then scoped and built technical solutions to solve them.
• You can quickly become productive using our backend or frontend technologies, or both.
• You’re excited about understanding the real problems working people come up against and fixing them with technology.
• You can work well in small teams to deliver radical improvements.
• You will be proud to show how you’ve impacted other parts of a business and delivered results.
• You will be pushing frameworks and languages for good business reasons.
• You stay up-to-date with developments in AI and are comfortable using AI tools to boost your productivity and problem solving.

The tech

• Our core technologies are: Python on the server side, using Django as a web framework, and Django Rest Framework for our API.
• Angular and TypeScript on the client side for our mobile apps and booking flow.
• Next.js and React for parts of our marketing website.
• Ionic for hybrid and progressive mobile apps.
• PostgreSQL for our database, using some of its advanced geographic modelling capabilities.
• Metabase for analysis and self-serve data exploration.
• Redis for caching and task queues.
• GitHub, Codeship and Heroku for seamless code review, integration and deployment.
• Claude Code for agentic coding.
• AWS S3, CloudFront and Lambda for storage and content delivery.
• Cypress for end-to-end testing.
• Third party APIs: OpenAI, Stripe, Twilio, Sendgrid, Mailchimp and more.

Our tech culture

• We follow an agile development process with fortnightly sprints.
• We keep meetings to a minimum, but the ones we do have are highly valuable.
• We strongly believe in ownership and you will be responsible for taking your features from development through to testing, deployment and design review with end users.
• We take code quality seriously. We have a preferred code style and we use automated linting, code formatting and other code inspection tools to detect common errors and ensure consistency.
• We run an extensive suite of unit, integration and end-to-end tests on every git push and deploy.

Perks

• Share options.
• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays.
• Flexible hours and work-from-anywhere days.
• Free trial cleans and discounted recurring cleaning.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Salary sacrifice gym membership scheme.
• Access to Employee Pricing Programs.
• Sponsored learning, including conference tickets and travel.
• Choice of hardware, OS and IDE – you do you.
• Posh Christmas and Summer parties.
• Tons of sponsored team socials.
• Casual dress code.