About the Role:

As a Full Stack Engineer (Backend leaning), you'll help shape the next generation of Cuvva's products, taking ideas from early experiments through to production and putting them in the hands of more than 1.5 million drivers.

You’ll help bridge the gap between disciplines, collaborating with backend, web, product and design to deliver seamless, user-centric solutions.

You won’t just ship code, you'll have the autonomy to challenge ideas, influence technical decisions and help shape the future of our products from discovery through to production.

Whether that’s building new features, new services, building out internal dashboards, expanding our design systems, or optimising developer experience. You’ll move between product delivery and platform improvement, bringing a positive, proactive and collaborative mindset to the team.

On a day-to-day basis you’ll:

• Write clean, maintainable, scalable, and well-tested code across Frontend and Backend (React, Go, Node etc.).
• Collaborate closely with Designers, PMs, and fellow Engineers to scope, design and deliver features end-to-end.
• Build and maintain services, APIs and internal dashboards that improve both customer experience and internal operations.
• Support infrastructure changes, deployment pipelines, and automation initiatives.
• Contribute to design systems and ensure pixel-perfect implementation on the frontend.
• Proactively identify and solve both functional and technical problems in the product.
• Share knowledge across teams, helping to raise the bar for the full stack discipline at Cuvva.
• Participate in standups, retros, and team ceremonies, keeping work visible and moving smoothly.
• Support onboarding, mentor teammates where appropriate and contribute to improving our engineering practices.

You’ll do great here if you have:

• Solid Backend knowledge, ideally with Golang and/or NodeJS, plus experience with APIs and microservices.
• Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks (React, Redux).
• Familiarity with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless services.
• An understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and scaling distributed systems.
• Take ownership of features from idea through to production, balancing speed, quality and customer impact.
• An automation-first mindset, using AI thoughtfully to accelerate development, improve developer productivity and maintain high standards of engineering quality.
• A proactive, collaborative approach – you like working with teammates across disciplines and sharing what you know.
• An eye for continuous improvement, always looking for better ways to build software, improve developer experience and raise engineering standards.
• Comfortable with ambiguity – you're curious, adaptable, and enjoy turning uncertain ideas into valuable products.

It’s a bonus if you have:

• Worked in a startup or scale-up environment.
• Operated as a Product Engineer, owning problems end-to-end, not just writing code.
• The ability to use data and experimentation to inform engineering and product decisions.
• The ability to pivot with enthusiasm and maintain speed when priorities shift.

The Hiring Process:

1. Initial chat with People Team (60m)
2. Technical interview & live challenge with fellow Engineers (90m)
3. Key stakeholder review with Head of Engineering (45m)
4. Founders chat with our CEO, Freddy (20m)

Benefits:

As well as a competitive salary (£72,000 - £82,500 depending on experience), benefits of working at Cuvva include:

• Very flexible WFH set up, we only ask folks to come in a couple of times a month for team strategy days and socials - but of course, you're more than welcome to come in as much as you like!
• A four day work week (Fridays off!)
• An office worth visiting - Old Sessions House is a stunning private members club with a rooftop, infinity pool and regular members events. Not your average workplace!
• Transparent salary model and bands for all roles (without sharing anyone's individual salary of course!)
• 20.5 days of holiday a year + public holidays - rising with each year at Cuvva 🌞 (holidays have been prorated based on our 4DWW)
• Quarterly team socials and company events
• Private medical insurance with Bupa
• Professional development budget
• Health, WFH and wellbeing budget 🧘‍♂️
• Increases to all allowances year on year
• Enhanced parental leave and pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Mental Health and Coaching Support - We offer free and confidential access to comprehensive mental healthcare and coaching through Oliva. Giving you the space to talk to a coach or therapist about anything you like
• Hundreds of perks and discounts with Perkbox
• £100 a month towards your Cuvva car insurance
• Referral bonus when you bring your friends to join the Cuvva team 💸

Referrals:

Know someone who could be right for this job? We’d love to hear from them, please drop us a note at jobs@cuvva.com to let us know who you'll be referring and for which role. If they get the job, you will receive an Apple Watch! If someone has already applied to the role before we receive your email they will not be considered a referral, so please check with them beforehand to make sure 🙂

Cuvva Ways of Working:

We’re dedicated to creating a place where people want to work, a place where people believe in what they’re doing, have clear expectations and a bunch of freedom.

Our approach to hybrid working is very flexible: we only ask people to come a couple of times a month for team building or company events. The rest of time it’s up to you where and how you work. You can of course come into the office as much as you like!

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Cuvva:

At Cuvva, we’re dedicated