Full Stack Developer jobs in United Kingdom

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer‑to‑peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work‑life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to build modern, cloud‑native applications using the latest front‑end frameworks, scalable microservices, and hyperscaler cloud services. You will work across the entire technology stack designing intuitive user interfaces, implementing resilient backend microservices, developing event‑driven components, and deploying solutions using cloud‑native CI/CD pipelines.

You will work with technologies such as React or Angular, Java/Spring Boot, .NET Core, Node.js, Python, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, serverless functions, and event streams. You may build solutions on AWS services like Lambda, EKS, DynamoDB, and CloudFront, or Azure services like AKS, App Services, APIM, Event Grid, Cosmos DB, and Azure Functions.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges, working in Agile teams, and building end‑to‑end cloud‑native products using modern tools and frameworks. Whether you are delivering features, guiding technical decisions, or owning key services, you will play a key part in building high‑performance, scalable, and secure applications.

If you want to work with next‑generation cloud‑native architectures and full‑stack engineering, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop full‑stack cloud‑native applications using microservices, APIs, and modern UI frameworks.
• Build front‑end applications using React or Angular (SPA or microfrontends).
• Develop scalable back‑end services following 12‑factor principles and event‑driven patterns through Domain‑Driven Design (DDD).
• Design Relational SQL and NoSQL data models for cloud‑hosted applications.
• Build applications using languages such as Java, .NET, Node.js, or Python.
• Deploy and manage containerised or serverless workloads using AWS or Azure cloud services.
• Work with event‑driven tools such as Kafka and cloud messaging services.
• Apply cloud‑native CI/CD, DevSecOps practices, and Test‑Driven Development.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams and support high‑quality delivery across the stack.
• Depending on experience, guide other developers or lead technical components

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Front‑End

• SPA and microfrontends
• Responsive Design
• React or Angular

Back‑End

• Common Design Patterns
• REST and event‑driven APIs
• SQL and NoSQL modelling

Programming Languages / Runtimes

• Node.js
• Python
• (Proficiency in at least one)

Frameworks

• Spring Boot (must have)
• Quarkus
• Express.js
• Django

Cloud (AWS and/or Azure)

• Compute & PaaS:
  • AWS: EKS, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, ROSA
  • Azure: AKS, Azure VMs, ACR, App Services, Functions, Service Fabric
• Routing / API
  • AWS: API Gateway, ALB/NLB, Route 53
  • Azure: APIM
• Databases
  • AWS: Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB
  • Azure: SQL DB, Cosmos DB, Redis
• Storage
  • AWS S3
  • Azure Blob Storage
• Observability
  • AWS CloudWatch, X‑Ray, EventBridge
  • Azure Monitor, App Insights
• Networking
  • AWS VPC, EC2
  • Azure VNet
• Kafka
• Zookeeper

DevSecOps / CI/CD

• Source Control: GitHub
• Security: IAM, Cognito, KMS, Secrets Manager
• Git‑based workflows (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
• Serverless architectures
• Microservices‑oriented design

This role is subject to pre‑employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Google Professional Cloud Developer

• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert

• Meta Full Stack Developer Professional Certificate

• IBM Full Stack Software Developer Professional Certificate

• Oracle Java SE Programmer

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Job Title

Full Stack Developer

Job ID

91119

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Hampshire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Lanarkshire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

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