Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer

Location: Very flexible - we're happy for folks to work WFH and lots of us do. We only ask that you come into our London office a couple of times a month for team strategy days and socials - but of course, you're more than welcome to come in as much as you like! (+ we're working a 4 day work week - Fridays off!)

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £72,000 - £82,000 + benefits listed below

About Cuvva!

We are making cars multiplayer

We're creating truly flexible products that meet people's real needs. Using lightning-fast technology to unlock better experiences and fairer prices for our customers, Cuvva is building the future of insurance every day.

Cuvva was the first to sell hourly insurance to borrow a car through an app in the UK back in 2016. And we haven't stopped innovating since.

We're a world-class team of 100 people, passionate about solving our customers' problems. Join us.

Our Product Engineering Teams

At Cuvva, Product Engineering is made up of cross-functional squads, each with full ownership over an area of the product or platform. These teams bring together FullStack, Backend, iOS, Android, Cloud Engineers, Product Managers, Designers and Data to work autonomously, make decisions quickly, and build impactful, reliable, user-centred products. We'll be looking for you to join our New Ventures team to start off with.

New Ventures - Operating as Cuvva's internal incubator, New Ventures explores high-potential opportunities that can become significant growth drivers for our business. New Ventures is designed to look further ahead, balancing discovery and delivery while taking calculated risks on ideas that could transform our business.

Core - Dedicated to growing our market-leading short-term car insurance product. As a cross-functional team, we focus on enhancing the user experience by deeply understanding customer needs, introducing new products and features to solve their problems, whilst continually optimising all aspects of the funnel.

Platform - Owners of the technical foundations that drive the business. The Platform team enables other teams within the business to move faster, reduce costs and succeed. Tackling some of the most complex challenges for the business, the Platform team maintains stability, whilst driving profit growth through automation.

At Cuvva, Engineers come from a variety of backgrounds and have different but complementary skill sets for ultimate collaboration. Within Engineering, you're not required to have a degree, many of us are self-taught.

Our 2025 Engineering Strategy:

We're not just here to write code, we're here to redefine how insurance works. Our 2025 engineering strategy is built on five principles:

1. AI-first: We're investing in automation and building AI-powered features to serve customers better and faster
2. Proactive mindset: We take initiative, spot problems early, and act fast
3. Data-driven decisions: Hypotheses are tested. Gut feel isn't good enough
4. Pareto principle: Get 80% of the value with 20% of the effort – polish only when it matters
5. Testing-first mindset: Stability matters. We test, we ship, we learn

Our Tech Stack:

• Frontend: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Redux (with Redux-Sagas)
• Backend: NodeJS and Golang, with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Architecture: Microservices, APIs, and serverless services Infrastructure & tooling: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, CI/CD pipelines
• Practices: Automation-first, metrics-driven, incident write-ups and observability baked in

About the Role:

As a Full Stack Engineer in the New Ventures team, you'll work across both frontend and backend to design, build, and scale new products and features. You'll help bridge the gap between disciplines, collaborating with backend, web, product and design to deliver seamless, user-centric solutions.

You won't just ship code, you'll help shape how we work. Whether that's building new features, new services, building out internal dashboards, expanding our design systems, or optimising developer experience. You'll move between product delivery and platform improvement, bringing a positive, proactive and collaborative mindset to the team.

On a day-to-day basis you'll:

• Write clean, maintainable, scalable, and well-tested code across frontend and backend (React, Go, Node etc.)
• Collaborate closely with designers, PMs, and engineers to scope, design, and deliver features end-to-end
• Build and maintain services, APIs, and internal dashboards that improve both customer experience and internal operations
• Support infrastructure changes, deployment pipelines, and automation initiatives
• Contribute to design systems and ensure pixel-perfect implementation on the frontend. Proactively identify and solve both functional and technical problems in the product
• Share knowledge across teams, helping to raise the bar for the full stack discipline at Cuvva
• Participate in standups, retros, and team ceremonies, keeping work visible and moving smoothly
• Support onboarding of new joiners and contribute to improving our engineering practices

You'll do great here if you have:

• Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks (React, Redux)
• Solid backend knowledge, ideally with Golang and/or NodeJS, plus experience with APIs and microservices
• Familiarity with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and serverless services
• An understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and scaling distributed systems
• Experience building and maintaining both frontend and backend infrastructure
• A proactive, collaborative approach – you like working with like-minded teammates across disciplines and sharing what you know
• An eye for continuous improvement, both in systems and processes
• Comfortable with ambiguity – you're curious, adaptable, and eager to experiment in an incubator-style team, helping shape ambiguity into clarity

It's a bonus if you:

• Have worked in a startup or scale-up environment
• Are used to operating as a Product Engineer, owning problems end-to-end, not just writing code
• Have the ability to pivot with enthusiasm and maintain speed when priorities shift

Please note: This role requires you to already hold the right to live and work in the UK on an ongoing basis, as we're unable to offer visa sponsorship or future renewal/extension support at this time.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive salary (£72k-£82k depending on experience) and benefits of working at Cuvva include:

• Very flexible WFH set up, we only ask folks to come in a couple of times a month for team strategy days and socials - but of course, you're more than welcome to come in as much as you like!
• A four day work week (Fridays off!)
• Transparent salary model and bands for all roles (without sharing anyone's individual salary of course!)
• 21 days of holiday a year + public holidays - rising with each year at Cuvva (holidays have been prorated based on our 4DWW)
• Quarterly team socials and company events
• Private medical insurance with Bupa
• Professional development budget
• Health, WFH and wellbeing budget
• Increases to all allowances year on year
• Enhanced parental leave
• We'll provide you with any tech equipment that you need
• Cycle to work scheme
• A day off to volunteer
• Mental Health and Coaching Support - We offer free and confidential access to comprehensive mental healthcare and coaching through Oliva. Giving you the space to talk to a coach or therapist about anything you like
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