Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Bloom (Gaia Learning) Brighton & Hove Gaia Learning is looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to take day-to-day technical ownership of Bloom, its live online education platform for young people with SEND and EHCPs. This is a hands-on role working across the product, API, cloud infrastructure and delivery pipeline. What you’ll own Full-stack product development across a React and TypeScript single-page application and PHP API.Google Cloud environments and infrastructure-as-code, with strong security and UK data-residency controls.Test-gated builds, deployments and production alerting.Engineering standards covering testing, type safety, accessibility and security.Architectural decisions for a platform handling children’s special-category data. What they’re looking for Substantial experience building and operating production web applications across frontend and backend systems.Strong TypeScript, React and server-side PHP experience.Relational data-modelling and safe database-migration experience.Cloud infrastructure ownership and infrastructure-as-code skills.Security-minded engineering and clear written communication.Confident, considered use of agentic coding tools such as Claude Code. Location and working pattern This is a permanent, full-time, UK-based remote-first role. Bloom would prefer someone in Brighton or within commuting distance, with the expectation of co-working with the CTO in Brighton one or two days a week. Salary and benefits The salary is £60,000. The role includes 31 days of holiday including bank holidays. Application process Applicants should email Zaq Mughal, CTO, with a CV and an explanation of how they use agentic coding tools in their day-to-day workflow. The role requires UK residency and right to work, and is subject to safeguarding and pre-employment checks.