Full Stack Developer

Job Description

Location(s):

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job Title: Full Stack Developer

Location: Bristol

Grade: GG11

Referral Bonus: £5000

As a key member of a Software Engineering team, you’ll be working with our Law Enforcement Customers to build systems that support their core mission capabilities. You’ll work as part of agile teams with regular contact with end-users to flexibly and efficiently understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain secure applications and services. You’ll be encouraged to identify new ways of solving problems and have the potential to work in a range of different teams across our customer organisations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust, scalable, and secure back-end services using Node.js
• Build dynamic, responsive, and user-friendly front-end interfaces using React.js
• Develop and integrate APIs (GraphQL etc.)
• Collaborate with product managers, and other engineers to define and build new features
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices (TDD, CI/CD, etc.)
• Manage databases and optimize queries (e.g. PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.)
• Debug and resolve technical issues across the stack
• Ensure application performance, scalability, and security
• Participate in code reviews when needed
• Stay current with emerging technologies and tools

Required Experience

• Proven experience as a full stack developer
• Strong proficiency in using JavaScript/TypeScript, NodeJS and ReactJS
• Solid back-end development skills using Node.js and frameworks
• Strong front-end development experience with React.js, including hooks, state management, and component architecture
• Experience with front-end tooling (Vite, ESLint)
• Familiarity with database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) and Structured verses Unstructured data.
• Knowledge of API design, authentication (OAuth2/JWT), and security best practices
• Experience with Git, agile methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines
• Good understanding of containerization tools like Docker or Kubernetes

Applicants will need to be eligible to work in the UK and hold (or be eligible for) UK security clearance, including enhanced customer clearance (eSC).

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.