Full Stack Engineer
Summary
This role is a full-stack and GitOps engineering position focused on building schema-driven UIs and configuring API gateways using GitOps workflows. The engineer will work with technologies including React, Next.js, Python/Go/Java, and API gateway tools like Kong and Envoy.
Full-Stack / GitOps Engineer
Contract-Inside IR35
London, UK- 5 Days Onsite
Budget: £425/Day-Inside IR35
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Frontend engineering: Advanced proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript, with strong hands-on experience building applications in React.js and Next.js.
- Backend engineering: Proficiency in one or more backend languages Python, Golang, or Java.
- Schema-driven experiences: Experience building dynamic, schema-driven UIs and services from structured contracts such as the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) or JSON Schema.
- API gateway configuration: Professional experience configuring API gateways - Kong, Envoy, Akamai/CloudFront including routes, services, upstreams, and plugins.
- GitOps model: Hands-on experience with GitOps-based delivery - author intent → PR → validate → merge → reconcile — with automated rollback on failure.
- CLI & code-editor tooling: Comfort with CLI-driven and code-editor–based workflows for gateway onboarding - authoring, validating, and committing configuration directly as code.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Kong: Deep, hands-on experience with Kong API Gateway (plugins, consumers, upstreams, schema validation).
- Envoy: Hands-on experience with Envoy Proxy or Envoy Gateway (routes, filters, and configuration).
- Akamai / CloudFront: Familiarity with edge configuration (CDN, WAF, GTM, certificates, property versioning/activation).
- Config reconciliation & drift: Experience building drift detection and desired-state reconciliation between Git and live systems.