Full Stack Engineer , Cuvva

• 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

Desirable

• 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-potental 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
• 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:
• AI-first: We’re investing in automation and building AI-powered features to serve customers better and faster
• Proactive mindset: We take initiative, spot problems early, and act fast
• Data-driven decisions: Hypotheses are tested. Gut feel isn’t good enough
• Pareto principle: Get 80% of the value with 20% of the effort – polish only when it matters
• 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
• 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
• 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

• Initial chat Engineering Manager (60 mins)
• Technical interview & live challenge with team mates (90 mins)
• Key stakeholder review with CTO (30 mins)
• Founders chat with our CEO & Founder, Freddy (20 mins)