Junior Software Engineer

Junior Full Stack Developer (Next.js / React) - up to £70k, London

The Overview

Our client helps brands and rights holders protect their intellectual property globally, combining smart technology with deep expertise to fight counterfeiting and piracy at scale. They're mid-way through a major digital transformation, and this is a great opportunity to join a growing engineering team and help shape modern, cloud-native platforms from the ground up.

The Role

This is a full stack position with a backend lean - you'll be working across the stack in Next.js and React, but spending more time on the APIs, databases, and backend services that power everything behind the scenes.

You'll be:

🔹 Building and maintaining features across the stack, with a focus on backend logic and APIs

🔹 Working closely with senior engineers to turn requirements into shipped features

🔹 Building and maintaining RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs and backend services

🔹 Helping keep applications performant, secure, and accessible

🔹 Getting stuck into code reviews as part of a collaborative team

What You'll Bring

✅ 2-4 years' professional software development experience

✅ Solid experience with Next.js, React, and TypeScript

✅ Comfortable across the full stack, with a backend leaning

✅ Experience building RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs

✅ Understanding of SSR/SSG

✅ SQL and/or NoSQL database experience

✅ Some cloud exposure (AWS preferred) and Docker

✅ Solid grasp of web fundamentals (HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP)

Nice to have: Go/C# backend experience, microservices, Terraform/CloudFormation, CI/CD, OAuth/JWT/SSO.

The Details

📍 London - 1-2 days per week on-site

💰 Up to £70,000, dependent on experience

📈 Join a business investing heavily in its engineering culture and platform

Sound like you? Drop me a message or send your CV over - I'd love to have a chat! 👇