Senior Full-Stack Developer

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 have 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 will be our first in‑house technical team member, reporting directly to leadership. You will have significant autonomy to shape how we build, ship, and scale our technology, including upcoming AI‑powered features like automated expert interviews.

• Own and ship new features end-to-end; from design through deployment
• Maintain and improve our platform (React + NestJS + Postgre
  
  SQL on AWS)
• Manage our cloud infrastructure (ECS, RDS, S3, Cognito, Cloud Watch, 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
• Frontend:
  React, Type Script, Tailwind CSS, AWS Amplify
• Backend:
  NestJS (Type Script), REST APIs, modular monolith
• Database:
  Postgre
  
  SQL (AWS RDS)
• Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, S3, Cognito, Cloud Watch, ALB), Terraform, Git Hub Actions
• Data/Messaging:
  Kafka, Redis (Valkey)

• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong Type Script/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 Postgre
  
  SQL 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

• 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 (Linked In, etc.)
• Previous startup, scale‑up, or small‑team experience

• What Youll Get

• £75,000 base salary
• Performance‑based annual bonus
• Annual profit sharing plan
• Regular micro‑bonuses for standout contributions

• Full medical insurance
• Full dental insurance
• Full vision insurance
• Generous pension contributions

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Ownership:
  Be the technical voice at the leadership table
• Impact:
  Your work directly enables investment decisions at top‑tier firms
• Innovation:
  Build cutting‑edge AI features (Eleven Labs, GenAI interviews)
• Autonomy:
  Shape the technical direction without layers of bureaucracy
• Growth:
  Build and lead a team as we scale