Etch
Full-Stack Engineer (AI-enabled)
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Full-Stack Engineer (AI-enabled)
We're looking for a Senior/Lead Full-Stack Engineer with an AI-native mindset to join Etch. Depending on where you are in your career, you'll either be delivering exceptional digital products as a strong senior contributor or stepping up to lead and shape how we build them. Either way, you'll be hands-on, working in small, cross-functional teams alongside designers, strategists, and product thinkers, owning a product from problem to production, with AI as a first principle from day one.
Salary: £65,000 to £100,000 DOE
Location & Working Arrangement:
- Full-time Employed
- Hybrid (2 days per week in-person in Southampton)
The Opportunity
This is a role that demands real craft and real impact. You'll work on ambitious digital products for clients, often embedded within their teams and codebases, with the freedom to bring your own ideas rather than merely executing briefs.
AI has fundamentally changed digital product development, and we’re looking for someone who:
- Already delivers production-grade AI solutions with speed and quality.
- At senior level, you’ll excel as an individual contributor across the stack while growing your influence within the team.
- At lead level, you’ll shape product technology decisions, set standards, and drive the team forward. Both senior and lead roles matter equally to us — our-choice will align with the right fit.
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Responsibilities
At both levels:
- Deliver digital products and experiences across the full stack, end-to-end, with minimal handovers, leveraging agile, continuous loops rather than phase-gated processes.
- Collaborate shoulder-to-shoulder with designers and product teams from day one, translating ambiguous requirements into well-defined, shipped solutions.
- Use AI agents and tooling (core to your workflow) to push velocity in building, testing, and deploying.
- Drive continuous improvement in client products, identifying AI-driven accelerations for quality and delivery.
- Participate in workshops and sprint planning, shaping user stories, acceptance criteria, and estimations.
- (Senior): Contribute to AI-led engineering ways of working (e.g., standards, tooling, best practices).
- (Lead): Own the ways of working, including documentation, tech standards, and SOPs.
Lead-specific responsibilities:
- Mentor and upskill engineers.
- Identify and lead R&D opportunities.
- Translate technical details for non-technical stakeholders.
- Act as a technology evangelist, keeping the team updated on AI advancements.
- Continuously measure and refine methodologies and processes.
Requirements
Essential
- Proven full-stack engineering experience, capable of writing secure, performant, and maintainable production code (frontend and backend).
- Ownership of entire software delivery lifecycle, from designers to deployment.
- Practical experience with AI developer tooling (e.g. Claude Code, Codex) in production settings.
- Confidence working at pace in existing/legacy codebases under real-world constraints.
- Knowledge of modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (React, Next.js, Vue, Node.js, etc.).
- Proficiency in BDD/TDD and component-driven approaches (Storybook or similar).
- Strong REST/GraphQL API design and consumption skills.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices (CI/CD, containerisation/Docker, Infrastructure as Code).
- Ability to identify bottlenecks others overlook.
- Desire to continuously improve technical practices and knowledge.
- Experience working in agency environments or across multiple client projects.
- Effective communication in distributed/embedded teams.
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Lead-specific (or for high-potential seniors)
- Engagement in solution design/architecture debates.
- Experience establishing technical standards or engineering patterns.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and owning code review processes.
- Direct contributions to product decisions beyond technical execution.
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