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Job title: Junior Full Stack Developer - Backend leaning
Location: London, UK (near Brixton station)
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 depending on experience
Work type: Hybrid - 1-2 days in office per week
Experience: junior 1-3 years
About the role
We're a small, fast-moving market intelligence company focused on Africa and the Middle East. We're looking for a full stack developer to take dedicated ownership of our frontend and API layer across a suite of data products - from a distributor directory used by FMCG commercial teams, to retail analytics tools and a content platform.
This is a high-autonomy role. You'll work directly with a lead data product engineer and a small research team, owning features end-to-end - from API design to deployed UI. You won't know everything on day one, and that's fine. What matters is that you pick things up fast, take pride in what you ship, and are comfortable being thrown into unfamiliar codebases.
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We expect experience with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) - not as a crutch, but as a force multiplier that lets a small team punch above its weight.
What you'll work on
- Feature development and redesign of our core tools (Vue.js + AWS Lambda + Aurora PostgreSQL)
- Backend API layer - Lambda endpoints, API Gateway, FastAPI/Python
- Natural language search and AI-powered features (embeddings, vector search)
- A content platform built on a CMS
- Database schema design, queries, and async data access patterns
Core skills we're hiring for
- JavaScript and Vue.js - comfortable building and maintaining component-based UIs
- Python - FastAPI or similar, writing Lambda endpoints
- PostgreSQL - confident writing queries and understanding schema design
- AWS basics - Lambda, API Gateway, S3
- Git and clean working practices
Good to have
- Experience with AI/LLM integrations - embeddings, vector search, RAG
- Auth0 or similar auth provider
- headless CMS
- Figma / UI design sensibility
- Airtable as a data layer
- Google Analytics, User analytics skills
- Deck.gl or other mapping libraries
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Who this is for
You might be a year or two into your career, or self-taught with strong project work. What we care about more than years of experience:
- You take full ownership - no ticket-monkey work here, you'll see features through from design to production
- You're energized by a broad scope, not intimidated by it
- You default to figuring things out rather than waiting to be told
- You're comfortable with ambiguity and iterating quickly
- You write code you'd be happy for others to read
What you get
- Direct impact on products used by commercial teams across 70+ countries
- End-to-end ownership from day one
- A small, senior team - no bureaucracy, fast decisions
- Exposure to AI-native development practices and a modern data stack
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