Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
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05-07-2025
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Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Want to use AI to make roads around the world safer and greener Were looking for an energetic Engineer with a passion for data and web applications to join our team and help us transform transport.
Salary: 60k - 80k
Reporting to: Franois-Xavier Decroix Engineering Manager
Location: primarily based in our London Office with flexible and hybrid working (ideally 2 days per week in the office).
About the role
Youll join our 7-person cloud and AI team who are responsible for producing and surfacing insights from innovative transport datasets using computer vision technologies. Your role will focus on the rich web applications which display graphs analyses and summaries to our users in transport authorities around the world. You will play a leading role in extracting value from the trillions of data points per year which flow from our smart traffic sensors to government clients.
As a senior full-stack engineer you will architect develop and own varied projects guiding technical direction to make a significant impact for customers helping to make roads around the world safer and greener. You will mentor junior and mid-level engineers through pair programming and code reviews and drive significant technical initiatives within our stack.
About you
You bring energy curiosity and a bias for action and you love collaborating to ship impactful software. You prioritise getting to the best outcome for our customers and take an active interest in the why not just the what. Youve written Typescript and/or Go commercially for years and have led major system designs. You can point to large architectural challenges youve overcome and large new product features or capabilities youve driven to market. You prioritise communication accountability and attention to detail and you emphasise the broader teams impact over your own in order to deliver on-time and on-scope.
About us
At VivaCity we make cities smarter safer and more sustainable using the latest in AI and IoT technologies. We have over 6000 AI sensors around the world gathering real-time anonymous data on transport modes traffic flow and travel patterns. This is used to gather actionable insights to support strategic decisions to improve the global transport network. All our solutions are community-centric using privacy by design principles. We pride ourselves on a collaborative open culture that fosters innovation learning and encourages everyone to do their best work whilst building a sense of community and collaboration. Read more about what its like to work at VivaCity.
Requirements for the role:
- JavaScript and a statically-typed language (eg Go Typescript): extensive experience required
- Designing & deploying cloud applications: strong ability and knowledge of concepts and modern best practices required
- SQL or other structured query language: strong ability and knowledge of concepts and best practices required
- Version control (Git) and command line: strong ability and knowledge of concepts and best practices required
- Problemsolving mindset and willingness to tackle unfamiliar domains
- Clear written and verbal communication with a collaborative and open approach
- Strong sense of personal accountability and attention to detail
- 50% - Proactive technical work (e.g. product development reliability enhancements DevX enhancements)
- 30% - Reactive technical work (e.g. incident response support requests code review)
- 10% - Technical leadership (e.g. coaching junior staff initiatives to promote best practices inputting on product roadmap)
- 10% - Planning and administration
Your time will be spent roughly as follows:
This is a unique opportunity to work with exciting technologies for a good cause whilst building your experience across a wide variety of skillsets.
The following would further strengthen an application:
- Passion for transportation or sustainable technologies
- Deeper experience with parts of our stack eg Go Typescript react
- Terraform or other InfrastructureasCode tooling
- Exposure to Kafka eventdriven architectures or message queues
- Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault or other secrets management tooling
- Deeper knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
- Experience in a start-up or scale-up environment
You dont need to have done all of these things before but to excel in this role you will need to be keen to learn and comfortable working in a dynamic fast-paced environment. If youre close to what were looking for please consider applying. Experience comes in many forms skills are transferable and passion goes a long way.
Hiring process:
- 30 minute screening interview.
- 1 hour pair programming interview where you will work together with a VivaCity engineer
- 2.5 hour final round interview split into a 60 minute technical experience interview 60 minute soft skills interview and 30 minute director interview
We know that diverse ideas and perspectives drive innovation and make us better. We are creating an environment where everyone from any background can do their best work. Were an equal opportunities employer and all applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation nationality disability age or social background. If you need any reasonable accommodations to help you perform at your best during the application process please let us know.
What we offer:
- 25 days of holiday
- Flexible working hours and work from home
- Up to 30 days per year work from abroad
- Up to 3 flexible bank holiday days
- 3% employer pension contribution
- 850 Learning & Development budget
- 200 total working from home budget
- Enhanced parental leave
- Up to 3 childcare or dependant days per year
- Mental health support through Spill
- Discounted gym memberships through GymFlex
- 50 per person per quarter team social budget
- Additional entertainment budget and company parties
- Office food and drinks
- Optional Bupa healthcare and dental care through salary deduction
- Eye care vouchers
- Seasonal Flu jabs
- Cycle to work scheme
- Payroll giving through salary sacrifice
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
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