Senior Full-Stack Developer (Hiring Immediately)

🧭 About the Role

Woozle Research is the home of investment-grade primary research. We help hedge funds, private equity firms, and consulting practices make smarter decisions through bespoke surveys, expert interviews, and channel intelligence.

We’ve just built a brand-new research portal to transform how we deliver insights to clients ; replacing email threads, spreadsheets, and manual workflows with a secure, scalable platform. Now we need someone to own it.

This is a foundational hire. You’ll be our first in-house technical team member, reporting directly to leadership. You’ll have significant autonomy to shape how we build, ship, and scale our technology ; including upcoming AI-powered features like automated expert interviews.

💼 What You’ll Do

As our Senior Full-Stack Developer, you’ll:

• Own and ship new features end-to-end ; from design through deployment

• Maintain and improve our platform (React + NestJS + PostgreSQL on AWS)

• Manage our cloud infrastructure (ECS, RDS, S3, Cognito, CloudWatch, Terraform)

• Integrate AI/GenAI tools like Eleven Labs for automated expert interviews

• Work directly with founders to translate business needs into technical solutions

• Evaluate and coordinate external partners when additional development support is needed

• Shape the technical roadmap and help build the team as we scale

🛠️ Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, AWS Amplify
• Backend: NestJS (TypeScript), REST APIs, modular monolith
• Database: PostgreSQL (AWS RDS)
• Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, S3, Cognito, CloudWatch, ALB), Terraform, GitHub Actions
• Data/Messaging: Kafka, Redis (Valkey)

Requirements

🙌 Who You Are

Essential (must have):

• 10+ years of professional software development experience

• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills across frontend and backend

• Production experience with React (hooks, state management, component architecture)

• Backend experience with Node.js (NestJS strongly preferred, Express acceptable)

• Solid PostgreSQL skills (schema design, query optimisation, migrations)

• Working knowledge of AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Cognito or similar auth services)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

• Comfortable working autonomously with minimal supervision

Desirable (nice to have):

• Terraform or infrastructure-as-code experience

• Experience integrating AI/ML APIs or building GenAI-powered features

• Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, or event-driven architectures

• Experience with OAuth integrations (LinkedIn, etc.)

• Previous startup, scale-up, or small-team experience

Benefits

✨ What You’ll Get

Compensation

• £75,000 base salary

• Performance-based annual bonus

• Annual profit sharing plan

• Regular micro-bonuses for standout contributions

🩺 Health & Insurance

• Full medical insurance

• Full dental insurance

• Full vision insurance

• Generous pension contributions

🏡 Working & Time Off

• Flexible hybrid working ; 3 days from home, 2 in Glasgow office

• Generous paid holiday allowance + bank holidays

• Paid parental leave

• Paid sick leave, bereavement, and jury duty

📚 Growth & Learning

• Annual personal study allowance

• Sponsored professional qualifications and certifications

• Structured career path with clear progression

• Opportunity to build and lead a technical team as we grow

🎉 Culture & Perks

• Team and company seasonal social events

• Quarterly and annual recognition events

• Commuter benefits and discount gym membership

• Membership to well-being applications

• Employee discount and reward programmes

• Culture of radical transparency, meritocracy, and continuous improvement

🚀 Why This Role?

• Ownership: Be the technical voice at the leadership table

• Impact: Your work directly enables investment decisions at top-tier firms

• Innovation: Build cutting]]> <