Senior Full Stack Developer - Web

Date: 16 Oct 2026

Location: Gatwick, GB

Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time

Security Level: SC

Location: Gatwick – Hybrid

Visa Restrictions: This position does not offer visa sponsorship

Closing Date:
Friday 6th November 2026

Screening Calls: w/c 9th November 2026

Interviews: from w/c 16th November 2026

We are the UK's aviation and aerospace regulator and recognised as a world leader in its field. Our activities are diverse, enabling the aviation industry to meet the highest safety standards, and we pride ourselves on our ability to adapt to the constantly evolving aviation environment.

The Role

The CAA is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer to lead the development work within a small, mature Dev Ops team, which has responsibility for developing and supporting a growing portfolio of websites and web applications.

This role combines hands on software engineering with technical leadership. The successful candidate will help shape solution architecture, engineering standards, delivery practices and platform evolution while contributing directly to the development and support of business critical services.

You’ll be working within the IT department utilising Agile and Dev Ops methodologies. The CAA delivers applications which meet WCAG 2.2 AA compliance standards.

Leading the delivery of new solutions, supporting processes and on-going application support including;

• Requirements capture and analysis
• Design of new functionality
• Consideration of application architecture to follow CAA design principles
• Development of both traditional MVC solutions and single page applications
• Delivering applications that meet WCAG 2.2 AA compliance standards
• Designing integration services with other solutions as necessary
• Maintenance of build and deployment pipelines
• QA of colleagues code
• Writing technical documentation for the supported solutions
• Performance analysis of applications and individual functional components
• Back-log refinement and work estimation

This role is focused on full life cycle development and support of new and existing solutions. We use Dev Ops technologies for work planning, and CI/CD pipelines.

There will be opportunities to mentor junior developers within the IT department.

About You

You will have a background in software development, working within a software development and delivery team. You will be expected to keep abreast of new and evolving technologies with respect to how they will impact or influence the work of the team.

• Web application design, development, and support
• C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET 8+, RESTful APIs and modern software engineering practices.
• MVC, Web API and Entity Framework
• HTML, CSS, Type Script and modern Angular development.
• Experience of the development and implementation of a CMS product such as Umbraco
• Capturing and converting business requirements into application specifications
• User-based design; a good understanding of UI, UX and responsive design
• Experience in delivering accessible applications
• Experience of secure application development practices, including addressing OWASP security concerns
• Experience of code quality/pull request reviews
• Prototyping new techniques and solutions
• Experience developing and supporting solutions hosted in Microsoft Azure
• Experience working with Azure Dev Ops or equivalent delivery platforms
• Understanding of cloud-native application design principles
• Experience working in a regulated or safety-critical environment
• Experience with Azure PaaS services
• Experience with containerisation technologies
• Experience with identity and authentication services (Entra /Azure AD)
• Experience of platform modernisation programmes
• Experience leading technical work streams or development teams
• SQL server

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