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Full Stack Developer (Principal / Senior)

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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
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StrongYour economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.
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You’ve got the grades and the economics background, and your bank internship is exactly the experience this scheme looks for. Apply soon — deadlines close within the month.
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Your summer at the bank plus your econometrics coursework map directly to the day-one responsibilities on this scheme — client modelling, market briefings, and deal support.
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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


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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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