Full Stack Engineer (Contract Role)
$1,456,000–$1,768,000 year
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Design, build, and ship end-to-end features across APIs, services, and responsive user interfaces using C#/.NET, Python, React, or Angular. Develop and run cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure, integrating with external market platforms and vendor SaaS products via API-first and event-driven patterns. Implement AI-enabled product features using retrieval-augmented generation and tool integration, while leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools like Claude Code in your daily workflow. Practice test-driven development to write secure, maintainable code applying authentication, authorization, and data protection standards. Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to shape greenfield architectural standards, review code from in-house and partner engineers, and mentor others. This 6-month contract role is Inside IR35 at £700–£850 per day.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive experience of professional software engineering experience
- Experience in insurance, reinsurance or wider financial services
- Strong programming skills in C#/.NET or Python
- Solid API design
- Strong SQL
- Practical experience building modern user interfaces with React or Angular and TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with Azure
- CI/CD tooling such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- Experience building to architectural standards
- Applying common patterns such as microservices, event-driven and API-led design
- Strong grounding in security patterns (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, Entra ID, RBAC)
- Secure coding practices
- Comfortable working with relational databases
- Data-heavy application features
- Eye for query performance
- Experience building with LLMs and AI-enabled solutions
- Clear appetite to learn
- Familiarity with agentic patterns
- Prompt design
- Evaluation
- Fluency in test-driven development
- Automated testing
- Eye for maintainable design
- Good judgement about when to keep things simple
- Ability to work closely with product stakeholders and delivery partners
- Explain technical trade-offs clearly
- Inside IR35
- £700 - £850 per day
- 6 month Contract Role
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Claude Code or Claude Cowork
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation
- Tool and API integration
- Human-in-the-loop design
- Experience with data analytics and modern cloud platforms
- Experience building conventional services
- Experience building AI-enabled features
- Experience working across the whole stack
- Comfortable building conventional services and AI-enabled features
- Experience with data, analytics and modern cloud platforms
- Experience with APIs and services
- Experience with responsive, accessible user interfaces
- Experience with PaaS services
- Experience with containers
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code
- Experience with external market platforms
- Experience with carrier and client systems
- Experience with vendor SaaS products
- Experience with API-first and event-driven patterns
- Experience with authentication and authorisation
- Experience with Entra ID
- Experience with OAuth 2.0
- Experience with data protection and privacy
- Experience with design discussions
- Experience with reviewing code from in-house and partner engineers
- Experience with mentoring others
- Experience with a greenfield estate
- Experience with traditional and AI-native development
- Experience with a fast-moving environment
- Experience with cutting-edge analytical solutions
- Experience with statistical models
- Experience with advanced technologies
- Experience with risk selection
- Experience with portfolio optimization
- Experience with capital management
- Experience with advanced modeling
- Experience with analytical capabilities
- Experience with science
- Experience with quantification of risk
- Experience with a diverse, inclusive, and flexible work environment
- Curious
- Collaborative
- Ambitious
- Curious, collaborative and ambitious
- Leads with heart
- Builds with courage
- Future led
- Forward thinking
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