Sanderson are working with a leading financial services organisation that places customers at the centre of its digital strategy. The organisation is continuing to invest heavily in its Customer Experience Platform, creating an exciting opportunity for a Staff Engineer to take on a senior technical leadership role within a growing technology function.

As a Staff Engineer, you will work across squads and delivery partners, owning technical outcomes end to end while remaining deeply hands-on. You will influence architecture, challenge existing approaches, and ensure the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-quality customer-facing solutions built on Adobe technologies.

The Details

• Location: Remote-first, with quarterly on-site workshops/events
• Salary: Up to £84,000
• Contract: Full-time, permanent
• Key Tech: Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), Cloud (GCP/Azure)
• Please note: You must be a UK resident to apply for this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across squads, owning technical decisions from requirements through to live release.
• Act as the senior technical authority, tackling the most complex, ambiguous, or high-risk engineering challenges.
• Define, own, and communicate clear technical direction, raising engineering standards across code quality, testing, security, and delivery.
• Lead the design and implementation of solutions built on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and the wider Adobe ecosystem.
• Maintain a strong hands-on presence through coding, code reviews, prototyping, and problem-solving.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including security, performance, resilience, scalability, and operability.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering strong technical capability, confidence, and ownership across teams.
• Collaborate closely with product, delivery, and senior technical leadership to shape and progress the CXP technical roadmap.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience operating at Senior Tech Lead or Staff Engineer level, supporting multiple teams or complex platforms.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
• Strong understanding of the wider Adobe ecosystem, including AEP, CDP, and Audience Activation.
• Demonstrable hands-on software engineering background with the ability to write and improve production code.
• Experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, customer-facing platforms.
• Confidence owning technical decisions and challenging peers, seniors, and third parties constructively.
• Strong communication skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Apply now or contact [email protected] for further details.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Senior Full Stack JavaScript Developer

• Salary: Up to £65,000
• Working Arrangement: Hybrid 2-3 days p/w onsite in Bristol
• Reports to: Director of Technology

We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack JavaScript Developer to join our client in the automotive sector. You’ll be working on their core applications, helping them build scalable and maintainable solutions using a modern JavaScript-based tech stack.

• Front-End: Vue.js (or another JS framework), CSS frameworks
• Back-End: Node.js, MySQL (Desirable: Java or PHP)
• General: Full JavaScript/TypeScript stack for simplicity and consistency

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain scalable front-end applications using Vue.js (or similar JS frameworks)
• Build and optimise backend services using Node.js/Deno and MySQL
• Ensure responsive, accessible, and performant UI/UX
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimise performance across the stack

Requirements:

• Commercial experience as a Full-Stack JavaScript Developer in a Senior capacity
• Strong proficiency in Vue.js (or another front-end framework like React/Angular)
• Solid experience with Node.js or Deno for backend development
• Proficiency in MySQL and database design principles
• Experience working with CSS frameworks (e.g., Tailwind, Bootstrap)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and best practices for backend services
• Ability to write efficient, scalable, and maintainable code
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Sanderson Government and Defence are supporting a commercial supplier to government in their search for a Cloud Application Developer to work out of either London, Manchester or Gloucestershire. This client, aside from offering a very strong package, offer an excellent development programme, with a real willingness to support both financially and otherwise.

Tech wise, we have requirement for both Java and Python backend languages, and cloud experience would also be very helpful indeed. AWS is by far the most prevalent, but we will look at individuals with transferable experience in this area.

Role Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project stakeholders to develop a strong understanding of the business environment, technical landscape, and organisational strategic objectives.
• Advise customers on emerging technologies and best-practice methodologies, designing and delivering innovative, automated solutions to complex challenges.
• Interpret and apply security policies, ensuring all implemented solutions meet required security standards.
• Design and implement highly available, scalable, and resilient systems.

Desirable Skills and Technologies

• Proven experience with cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Azure Virtual Desktop.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, React, and Go.
• Experience deploying applications within cloud architectures,
• Hands-on experience with web application services.
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development and Behaviour-Driven Development
• Experience in API design, development, and integration.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability systems.
• Understanding of modern digital delivery processes and agile methodologies.
• Working knowledge of the Atlassian toolset.
• Experience with JavaScript front-end frameworks and core front-end technologies.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming concepts and associated design considerations.
• Knowledge of database schema design and query languages.
• Experience with source control and version management systems.
• Understanding of deploying and configuring AWS components in environments with strict security requirements.
• Awareness of identity, access management, and authentication mechanisms and related security tools.

This role will require you to be willing and eligible to undergo a high level of UK security clearance.

If you’re interested in the above, apply or reach out to [email protected]

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Sanderson are working with a leading financial services organisation that places customers at the centre of its digital strategy. The organisation is continuing to invest heavily in its Digital Experience Platform, creating an exciting opportunity for a Staff Engineer to take on a senior technical leadership role within a growing technology function.

As a Staff Engineer, you will operate at a senior technical leadership level, working across multiple squads to shape architecture, raise engineering standards, and drive the delivery of secure, scalable, and high-performing digital solutions. This role blends hands-on engineering with strategic influence, acting as a technical authority and escalation point across the value stream.

The Details

• Location: Remote-first, with quarterly on-site workshops/events
• Salary: Up to £84,000
• Contract: Full-time, permanent
• Key Tech: React, Node, Nest, Micro Frontends (MFE), Backend-for-Frontend (BFF)
• Please note: You must be a UK resident to apply for this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple squads, supporting the delivery of complex, cross-cutting initiatives.
• Act as the final technical escalation point, tackling the most complex, high-risk, or ambiguous engineering challenges.
• Apply a strategic, end-to-end view across the platform while remaining hands-on through coding, prototyping, and solution validation.
• Define, own, and present technical solutions in collaboration with architects and senior technical stakeholders.
• Drive architectural alignment and adoption of modern patterns, including Micro Frontends (MFE) and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) approaches.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including security, performance, scalability, and operability.
• Lead improvements to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, engineering quality, and secure delivery practices.
• Mentor and coach engineers, raising the technical bar and promoting engineering best practices across squads.
• Work closely with product, delivery, and technical leadership to shape the technical roadmap and support planning cycles.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience operating at Senior Tech Lead or Staff Engineer level, supporting multiple squads simultaneously.
• Strong hands-on background with React, Node, and NestJS, with the ability to actively code and prototype.
• Deep architectural understanding, particularly across Micro Frontend (MFE) and BFF architectures.
• Experience designing and operating scalable, cloud-native systems.
• Comfortable influencing technical direction and outcomes without direct line management authority.
• Clear and confident communicator, able to explain complex technical concepts to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Proactive, self-driven mindset with the ability to identify risks, gaps, and opportunities independently.

Apply now or contact [email protected] for further details.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Role: Senior Mobile Applications Developer
Clearance: SC required
Location: Hybrid – up to 2 days onsite in High Wycombe (as required)
Working Pattern: Full-time
IR35: Inside IR35
Start Date: ASAP
Contract End Date: 27 February 2026

Role Overview:
We are looking for an experienced Senior Mobile Applications Developer to support the ongoing development of existing mobile applications. The role will focus on implementing new features and ensuring applications are updated and compatible with the latest operating system versions.

Key Skills & Experience:

• Strong experience in iOS development using Swift and UIKit

• Experience with Java

• Ability to work effectively in a secure, collaborative environment

• Active SC clearance is essential

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Location: Malvern, Farnborough and Southampton/Portsmouth (Hybrid working available)
Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Hours: 37 hours per week
Security Clearance: SC clearance (or eligibility) required

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join a highly capable engineering team delivering complex, mission-critical systems within the defence and national security domain.

You will work on projects spanning the full technology lifecycle – from early proof-of-concept and demonstrators through to fully deployed production systems – across a range of advanced capability areas. This is an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology alongside experienced engineers, scientists and customer stakeholders.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting the delivery of advanced software projects across multiple technology areas, including RF/Optical Communications, RADAR/Electronic Warfare, GNSS, Cyber/Crypto-Security and Joint Air, Land and Maritime domains

• Designing, developing and testing high-quality software in line with industry best practice

• Applying your expertise across the full software development lifecycle

• Contributing to and influencing systems architecture and technical design decisions

• Collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering teams and customer-facing delivery teams

• Championing modern development practices to enable efficient delivery and high-quality outcomes

• Building strong relationships within the customer community to support ongoing programmes and future growth

Essential Experience

• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle with experience delivering complex software systems

• Experience contributing to and influencing systems architecture and design

• Proficiency with Java, Spring, and React

• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD)

• Strong background in Agile software engineering practices (Scrum, CI/CD, BDD)

• Experience using Git, GitLab, and Jira to manage and drive development

Location & Working Pattern

This role is based in Malvern, Portsmouth or Farnborough with hybrid working available, depending on project and security requirements.

Benefits

• Competitive salary

• Matched pension contribution with life assurance

• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days

• Private Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance and Health Cash Plan options

• Employee discount portal covering insurance, travel, leisure and retail

• Volunteering opportunities and support for the Armed Forces community

Security Clearance

Applicants must hold active SC clearance as a minimum. Existing clearance may be transferable. Due to the nature of the work, nationality or residency restrictions may apply.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

ServiceNow Developer – CSDM / CMDB

Rate – £475 – £525 per day Inside IR35, total to umbrella

Duration – 6 months initial

Location – London (Twice a week on site)

Additional ServiceNow developer resource to complement in-house developer to assist with the Hardware Asset Management and Software Asset Management projects.

What you’ll do over the duration:

• Complete the configuration of:

• the CMDB Health Dashboards
• the default views for each CI Class
• and complete any remaining work related to the CI Class Manager
• Complete any outstanding User Stories for Governance and Compliance, including the new service transition workflow
• Work on integration with the ITSM applications, including Incident and Problem Management, Change Enablement and Request Fulfilment

Strengths and Experience

ServiceNow

• Primarily significant experience of implementing CMDBs
• Experience with CSDM
• Hardware and Software Asset Management implementation
• A thorough understanding of how other applications and modules integrate with the CMDB data

Soft Skills

• Analysis
• Ability to work with business users, talking without non-technical jargon
• Confident when presenting work to small groups of people, including senior managers
• Good at writing technical documents and business processes
• An understanding and experience of working in a formal testing environment

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Software Engineer

Location: Cheltenham

Business Unit: Central Government, Law Enforcement and National Security

Level: Mid-Senior

Employment Type: Permanent

Clearance: Must hold active UK Security Clearance

About the Opportunity

We are partnering with a leading Engineering business seeking experienced Java Software Engineers to help deliver mission-critical capabilities that protect the UK’s security and prosperity. You will work at the intersection of advanced engineering and real-world problem-solving, developing cutting-edge products that counter evolving threats.

Our teams work with leading technologies across AI/DS, Cyber, Cloud, DevOps/SRE, and Platform Engineering, supporting customers across the National Security, Defence and Intelligence community. With long-term programmes secured, this is an opportunity to join a high-growth environment with genuine impact.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing, developing, and maintaining secure, scalable Java applications and microservices using Spring Boot.
• Translating technical designs into clean, test-driven, production-ready code aligned with engineering best practices.
• Building and maintaining RESTful APIs and integrating them with databases, messaging systems, and external services.
• Supporting and evolving core architectural components, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborating with product, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver solutions aligned with user and business needs.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies and contributing to technical strategy, continuous improvement, and innovation.

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience with Java and Spring Boot in enterprise or microservices environments.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design, service-oriented architectures, and integration patterns.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases and ORM frameworks such as JPA/Hibernate.
• Proficiency with automated testing frameworks and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Familiarity with Maven or Gradle and working across application, service, and data layers.
• Strong documentation and design discipline, with a curiosity for emerging Java and backend technologies.

Why Join?

You’ll be part of a trusted engineering organisation with over 60 years of heritage in sensors, communications, cyber, AI and ML. They solve complex challenges that make a tangible difference protecting people, platforms and missions, today and for the future.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Full Stack Software Engineer

Location: Gloucester (Hybrid)
Salary: £50,000 – £65,000 + Benefits and Bonus
SC clearance required to start.

Applicants must be a sole British national due to the nature of the work being within National Security

What you’ll be doing

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you’ll build cutting-edge products that protect people, platforms, missions, and information from evolving threats.

You’ll collaborate directly with customers, help shape technical strategy, and apply emerging technologies to complex, operational challenges – bringing the physical and digital worlds together.

Key responsibilities

• Develop clean, secure, test-driven code

• Produce high-quality technical designs and documentation

• Build solutions that are open, reusable, and scalable

• Translate logical designs into robust, real-world implementations

• Work with both established and emerging technologies to identify the right patterns

• Integrate APIs, UIs, data stores, and backend services

• Maintain and enhance data pipelines, data stores, and REST APIs

• Contribute to Agile delivery and team ceremonies

• Support teammates in understanding new API features and impacts

• Work closely with user researchers to represent real user needs

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

Full Stack Software Engineer

Location: Gloucester (Hybrid)
Salary: £50,000 – £65,000 + Benefits and Bonus
SC clearance required to start.

Applicants must be a sole British national due to the nature of the work being within National Security

What you’ll be doing

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you’ll build cutting-edge products that protect people, platforms, missions, and information from evolving threats.

You’ll collaborate directly with customers, help shape technical strategy, and apply emerging technologies to complex, operational challenges – bringing the physical and digital worlds together.

Key responsibilities

• Develop clean, secure, test-driven code

• Produce high-quality technical designs and documentation

• Build solutions that are open, reusable, and scalable

• Translate logical designs into robust, real-world implementations

• Work with both established and emerging technologies to identify the right patterns

• Integrate APIs, UIs, data stores, and backend services

• Maintain and enhance data pipelines, data stores, and REST APIs

• Contribute to Agile delivery and team ceremonies

• Support teammates in understanding new API features and impacts

• Work closely with user researchers to represent real user needs

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.