Full Stack Developer (Principal / Senior)

Hays are now looking for a Full Stack Developer for one of our local retail clients:

Flexible Rate - Inside IR35

3 days a week onsite

Location is Bury

We're supporting a leading global footwear retailer as they build Marketplace and Conversion Optimisation squads to deliver improvements across their digital commerce platforms. We're looking for hands-on engineers who combine strong full stack technical expertise with product thinking, software craftsmanship and a passion for building customer-facing solutions.

What you'll be doing

Design, build and deploy scalable cloud-native applications across marketplace and ecommerce platforms

Develop customer-facing features that improve conversion, customer experience and commercial outcomes

Take features from discovery through to production

Lead technical delivery through hands-on engineering and coding

Build and maintain REST APIs, microservices and modern web applications

Drive code quality, software craftsmanship and engineering best practices

Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews and day-to-day delivery

Embed automated testing, security and quality throughout the development lifecycle

Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes and developer experience

Design scalable, maintainable solutions and reduce technical debt

Drive automation and continuous improvement across engineering teams

Utilise AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity, code quality and troubleshooting

What we're looking for

Strong commercial full stack software engineering experience

React and/or Next.js experience

Node.js and TypeScript experience

AWS cloud-native development experience

REST APIs and microservices architecture

CI/CD and modern software delivery practices

Automated testing experience

Experience delivering cloud-native digital products within Agile teams

Strong understanding of modern engineering, DevOps and software development best practices

Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers through hands-on delivery

Ability to balance rapid delivery with long-term engineering quality

Nice to have

CommerceTools or similar composable commerce platforms

Terraform or Infrastructure as Code

GitHub Actions

Docker and Kubernetes

Event-driven architecture

Monorepo environments

Observability platforms

Feature flag frameworks

AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code or Gemini Code Assist

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