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Full Stack Mobile Engineer About the Role We are seeking an experienced Full Stack Mobile Engineer to join our mobile application development team. You will work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, designers, testers and fellow engineers to deliver high-quality digital products used by thousands of learners and driving instructors across the UK. The role has a strong focus on Java backend development, REST API development, database integration and end-to-end software delivery. Experience with Flutter is desirable, while knowledge of AWS and Sitecore would be advantageous. You will take ownership of features from discovery through implementation, deployment and production support. You will also contribute to modern engineering practices and the responsible use of AI-assisted software development tools. Key Responsibilities * Design, develop, test, deploy and support full-stack mobile application features. * Develop scalable and maintainable backend services using Java. * Design and develop RESTful APIs connecting mobile applications with backend services. * Integrate applications with relational and NoSQL databases, content management systems and third-party services. * Contribute to mobile application development using Flutter and Dart where required. * Take ownership of features from discovery and requirements gathering through to production support. * Work with product owners and business stakeholders to understand business challenges and translate requirements into technical solutions. * Investigate and resolve application, API, integration and production issues. * Write secure, maintainable, reusable and well-tested software. * Participate in code reviews, automated testing and continuous integration activities. * Work with AWS and modern cloud deployment and operational practices. * Collaborate with engineers, testers, designers and technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Contribute to Agile planning, technical discussions, solution design and retrospectives. * Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly while reviewing and validating generated code and solutions. * Contribute to improvements in engineering processes, development tools, technical standards and ways of working. Essential Skills and Experience The successful candidate should have strong commercial experience in software engineering, backend development or full-stack development, together with proven hands-on experience developing Java-based backend services. You should have practical experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and integrating backend services with mobile applications and databases. Experience with relational or NoSQL databases, SQL, Git, automated testing and modern software development practices is required. You should understand software development lifecycle principles, continuous integration, code review, secure coding and production support. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are essential, together with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Desirable Technical Experience Experience with Flutter and Dart for cross-platform mobile application development would be beneficial. Knowledge of AWS services such as Lambda, SQS and CloudFormation is also desirable. Experience with Sitecore or other headless Content Management Systems would be advantageous. Additional experience with SQL Server, database design, Jest, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, CI/CD, microservices or cloud-native development would be useful. Experience working within Agile or Scrum product teams and using AI-assisted software development tools is also desirable. Personal Profile We are looking for an engineer who enjoys solving problems as much as developing software. You should be naturally curious and interested in understanding the business challenge behind a technical requirement. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong engineering judgement and be able to balance customer value, delivery speed, software quality, security, maintainability and operational stability. You should be collaborative, adaptable and comfortable learning new technologies. You will be expected to take ownership of your work and remain accountable for the quality of solutions delivered. You should also be comfortable using AI-assisted development tools responsibly. This includes critically reviewing AI-generated code, validating technical recommendations and ensuring that all delivered software meets appropriate standards for security, quality and maintainability. Technology Stack The core technology environment includes Java, REST APIs, mobile application development, Flutter, Dart, AWS, Sitecore, SQL, SQL Server, relational databases, NoSQL databases, Git, CI/CD, automated testing and DevOps. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work across backend services, mobile applications, APIs, databases and cloud technologies while contributing to the continued improvement of engineering practices. Education and Qualifications A degree or equivalent qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline is desirable. Equivalent professional software engineering experience will also be considered. Relevant certifications in Java, AWS, Cloud, DevOps or Agile methodologies would be advantageous but are not essential. Key Skills Java, Full Stack Development, Mobile Development, Backend Development, REST APIs, Flutter, Dart, AWS, Sitecore, SQL, SQL Server, NoSQL, Git, CI/CD, DevOps, Automated Testing, Cloud Computing, Agile, Microservices, Software Engineering and AI-Assisted Development

Job Description Who this is for An early-career engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. Security or observability background — either is welcome.  You have been working for eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role — a platform team, a SOC or security engineering team, an MSP or MSSP, an infrastructure or DevOps team, a vendor’s support or professional services desk — and you are looking for your first move. You have had your hands on something that runs in production and matters to somebody. You want to go deeper, faster, in a smaller business where the work you do is seen. This is not a graduate scheme and it is not a helpdesk. It is a real engineering seat with real customers, real supervision and a clear path up.   The Role  This is a hands-on engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. You will help run customer telemetry platforms day to day, improve them, and contribute to the platform that lets us run them well. You will do this as part of a small engineering pool, with a senior engineer checking your work before it reaches a customer and a line manager who is accountable for your development.  Operate has two shapes and you will work in both.  Operate Core is always-on. It is continuous ownership of a customer’s platform — health, ingestion, data quality, alerting, upgrades, capacity. There is no handover and no final deliverable. The platform is ours to keep healthy for as long as the customer is ours. Success is measured in the absence of surprises and in the platform being demonstrably better in six months than it is today.  Operate Attach is sprint-based improvement. A customer has a defined problem — noisy alerts, a data source that will not normalise, ingest costs running away, a detection gap, a migration — and we take a scoped block of work and fix it. Attach has a start, a shape and an end. It sits on top of Core, for the same customers, with the same engineers.  Alongside that you will take a share of professional services delivery: shorter, project-shaped engagements that are usually how a customer first meets us.  What You’ll do Everything below is done with supervision at first and with increasing independence as you show you can carry it. We will be explicit with you about where that line is and how it moves.  Day-to-day health of customer platforms. Ingestion pipelines, data quality, alerting, licensing and capacity, upgrades and patching. You will start by owning a slice of a named customer estate, and you will be expected to notice problems before the customer does.  Incident and problem work. Triage, diagnosis and resolution — and then the harder part, which is the root cause and the permanent fix so it does not come back.  Content and configuration. Detections, dashboards, parsers, normalisation, alert rules, pipeline routing — built properly, peer reviewed, version controlled, documented.  Attach sprints and PS work. Taking a defined piece of a scoped improvement, delivering it, and being able to show what changed.  Automation. If you do something manually three times, we expect you to want to automate the fourth. Most of our platform tooling started as an engineer being annoyed by something.  Documentation and runbooks. Your own, to a standard, every time. Undocumented work is unfinished work.    What this role is NOT  Being clear about this matters as much as the role definition itself.  It is not a SOC analyst seat. You are not sitting in a queue triaging alerts against someone else’s runbook. You help build and run the platform that the analysts depend on.  It is not a service desk or first-line support role. You will talk to customers about technical matters, but the work is engineering, not ticket handling.  It is not a data science role. We work with very large volumes of machine data, but the work is systems and operations engineering, not modelling or statistics. Python and dashboards are not the same thing as running a platform.  It is not a graduate scheme. We paused our graduate hire to open this role instead, because we want someone who has already spent time in a production environment and knows what it feels like when something breaks at an awkward hour.  It is not a project role with a finish line. Core has no end date. If what you enjoy is shipping a thing and walking away, you will find the continuous half of this job frustrating.    Who we are looking for We are indifferent to whether your background is security or observability. Either one is a good starting point, and the interesting work at Apto sits where the two meet — the same telemetry usually has to serve both a security question and an operational one. What we need is depth in one and genuine curiosity about the other   Experience we’re looking for Roughly eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role. We care much more about what you have actually done than about the number of months attached to it, and we know that at this stage most of what you have done was somebody else’s decision. That is fine. We are looking for the shape of it.  You have had your hands on a telemetry, SIEM, observability or monitoring platform that was running in production — not only in a course or a home lab. You have onboarded a data source, tuned an alert, applied an upgrade, or been the person who had to work out why the data stopped arriving.  You have carried something over time rather than only delivering a task and moving on — a set of alerts you looked after, a customer estate you knew well, an on-call rotation, a service that was yours to keep healthy.  You are comfortable in Linux, in at least one query language, and you have written scripts that did something useful. Python is what we mostly use; anything credible is a fine starting point.  You have automated or fixed something real and you can show it. A script, a repo, a before-and-after number, a description concrete enough for us to ask sensible questions about.  You can write. A clear runbook, a readable incident note, a straight message to a customer. This is a customer-facing role.  You have worked in at least one of our vendor families — Splunk, Cribl, Sentinel, Grafana, Datadog, Elastic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry — or a close analogue. The specific product is negotiable. Real exposure is not.  If you meet most of this and not all of it, apply anyway and tell us which parts you do not have. We would rather read an honest gap than a padded CV.    The platform work – why this is interesting Most managed service jobs are the same job with a different logo on the ticketing system. This one is not, because we are building our own platform underneath the service and you will work on it. We have replaced a vendor-licensed telemetry backend with an open-source stack we run ourselves. A base platform (secret  ;-)) On top of that sits multi-vendor collection — the pattern that lets us onboard a Splunk, a Cribl or a Sentinel customer without rebuilding it from scratch each time. Beyond that, the vendors are all shipping AI and agentic layers — MCP servers, agentic investigation, cross-vendor gateways — and we already have that work live with a customer. You will get early, hands-on exposure to it while most of the industry is still writing slide decks about it.    Occupations Systems-Process Engineering, Computer-Network Security, Enterprise Software Implementation & Consulting, General-Other: IT-Software Development, Security Intelligence & Analysis Salary £35000 to £42000 depending on capability