Senior Software Engineer GCP & React
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Job Summary
Fulcrum Digital is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to anchor the technical direction of a full-stack product team building cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will architect and build across the stack in Java/Python and React set engineering standards and mentor a squad of engineers while staying close to the code.
You will work alongside product design and client stakeholders to translate business goals into resilient scalable solutions and act as a strategic technical partner rather than an order-taker. This role suits an engineer who enjoys owning outcomes end to end from architecture through to production reliability.
Solution design Own the end-to-end architecture of cloud-native applications on GCP balancing performance cost security and maintainability.
Standards Design develop and optimize queries and analytics using BigQuery for reporting and data insights. Manage deployments monitoring and troubleshooting in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Decisions Make and document key technical decisions weighing trade-offs transparently for stakeholders.
Full-stack build Design and build backend services and APIs in Java (Spring Boot)/Python and modern responsive front-ends in React.
Cloud delivery Deploy monitor and optimise workloads on GCP using managed services containers and CI/CD pipelines. Work with GCP services such as Cloud Run Cloud Functions Cloud Storage Pub/Sub API Gateway BigQuery or equivalent services based on project requirements.
Quality Contribute production-quality code conduct code reviews and uphold test coverage and quality gates.
Mentorship Mentor and grow a squad of mid and junior engineers; provide technical coaching and career guidance.
Stakeholders Partner with product owners designers and client stakeholders to shape scope and sequence delivery.
Delivery Support estimation sprint planning and risk management as part of an agile delivery team.
We expect a strong hands-on engineer with a proven track record of leading full-stack teams in a cloud-first environment.
Area | What were looking for |
Experience | 8 years in software engineering including 2 years in a technical lead or senior lead capacity. |
Java / Python (Backend) | Deep expertise in Java and Spring Boot/Python; RESTful API design microservices and strong understanding of concurrency JVM performance and Components |
React (Frontend) |
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Google Cloud (GCP) | Practical experience with GCP services such as GKE Cloud Run Cloud Functions Pub/Sub Cloud SQL / Firestore and IAM. App Engine (application deployment scaling monitoring) Cloud Datastore / Firestore (data modeling indexing query optimization) BigQuery (ETL complex queries performance tuning) |
DevOps & CI/CD | Containerisation (Docker) Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines; infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) is a strong plus. |
Architecture | Demonstrated ability to design scalable secure distributed systems and to reason about trade-offs. |
Ways of working | Agile / Scrum delivery Git-based workflows and a test-first quality-driven mindset. |
Leadership | Evidence of mentoring engineers leading design discussions and communicating clearly with technical and non-technical audiences. |
GCP Professional certification (Cloud Architect or Cloud Developer).
Experience with event-driven or serverless architectures at scale.
Exposure to observability tooling (Cloud Monitoring Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry).
Familiarity with domain-driven design and API-first / contract-first development.
Prior experience in a consulting or client-facing delivery environment.
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
Required Skills:
ReactPython/JavaGCP
