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Outside Spy
Mar 04, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Backend Engineer at Pulselive, London Kennington, 3 Months+, £400-£500 per day (Outside IR35) at Pulse Innovations Limited, Multiple Locations, £Contract Rate
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Contract Description Senior Backend Engineer - Contractor (Outside of IR35) Senior Software Engineer – Java (Contract - Outside of IR35) Duration: 3 Months Plus Start Date: ASAP Day Rate: £400 - 500 per day As a Senior Software Engineer (Java) – Contractor at Pulselive, you’ll be focused on delivering robust, high-performance backend services and APIs that power digital experiences for millions of sports fans globally. This role is ideal for an experienced, hands-on engineer with strong Java and Spring expertise who thrives in a collaborative and fast-paced delivery environment. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to build, integrate, and optimize systems that handle real-time sports data, video, and live commentary. This position is project- and delivery-focused, with no line management or people-leadership responsibilities required. Key Responsibilities: Design and develop scalable backend systems using Java and Spring Boot Deliver...
Outside Spy
Mar 04, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Backend Engineer Node.js/TypeScript at SR2 - Socially Responsible Recruitment, London, 6 Months, £500-£525 per day
£500 - £525 per day
Outside Spy London, UK
Outside IR35 | £500-£525/day | 6 Months Remote - UK We're looking for experienced Backend Engineers to support the development and scaling of Back End platforms powering a range of digital products and internal systems. This is a hands-on contract role suited to senior engineers who enjoy technical ownership, improving system performance, and contributing to architectural decisions while remaining actively involved in delivery. The Role Develop Back End services using Node.js and TypeScript Build and enhance APIs and system integrations Improve scalability, reliability and overall platform performance Contribute to system design and technical decision-making Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams Provide technical guidance where required Technology Environment Node.js TypeScript/JavaScript APIs and microservices Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure) Distributed Back End systems Experience Required Strong commercial Back End engineering...
Outside Spy
Feb 26, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Backend Engineer at Trust In Soda, London, 6 Months, £500-£600 per day,
Outside Spy London, UK
Lead Backend Engineer - HIRING ASAP Start Date: ASAP Duration: 6 Months Location: Remote Rate: £500 - £600 per day, outside IR35 Summary This position is suited for Senior folks, who are motivated, proactive, not afraid to take leadership and are confident to make decisions but are also good team players and have a very good technical skill. Tech stack you will be working in is NodeJS + PSQL + AWS. Responsibilities NextGen and MDM systems, which are the main engines that are powering our clients' websites. You should take a tech lead on these services and be able to mentor others, work with EM/Delivery/Product etc. Good tech skills and design principles are probably key here. Key Skills Experience within NodeJS + PSQL + AWS. iGaming, or Casino Betting industry experience preferred.
Outside Spy
Feb 25, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Backend Engineer at Trust In Soda, London, 6 Months, £500-£600 per day,
Outside Spy London, UK
Senior NodeJS Engineer - HIRING ASAP Positions Available: 2 Start Date: ASAP Duration: 6 months Location: Remote (Can be based anywhere in Europe) Rate: £500 - £600 per day, outside IR35 Summary These positions are suited for Senior folks, who are motivated, proactive, not afraid to take leadership and are confident to make decisions but are also good team players and have a very good technical skill. Tech stack you will be working in is NodeJS + PSQL + AWS. Responsibilities for Role #1 CDM + HubSpot - extending our clients' Commercial Data Manager including tech improvements and new features, but also taking over maintenance and lead on HubSpot that was built for them by an external agency, however now they're looking into continue expanding it and maintaining it in house. The role will be split 70% CDM and 30% HubSpot, with this person being the key developer looking after HS, alongside with their architect, so for this role previous experience with HubSpot will be...
Outside Spy
Mar 02, 2026
6 Months or more
Staff Engineer- Backend JavaScript -outside IR35 at GCS, London, 6 Months, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London, UK
Staff Engineer- Backend JavaScript (Node.js/TypeScript) Contract - Outside IR35 Location: London/Hybrid (once every two weeks) Contract: Outside IR35 Duration: 6 months initial (extension likely) Our client, an innovative and forward-thinking technology business, is looking for a Backend JavaScript Staff Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly experienced, hands-on Back End engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, building scalable systems, and providing technical leadership across teams. You will play a key role in shaping Back End architecture, improving platform reliability and performance, and raising engineering standards while remaining deeply involved in hands-on delivery. The Role As a Staff Engineer, you will work across multiple teams to drive technical direction and deliver robust Back End services. You'll lead by example through high-quality code, architectural guidance, and...
Outside Spy
Feb 27, 2026
6 Months or more
Senior Rust/Polyglot Engineer at Gravitas Recruitment Group Ltd, London, 12 Months, £550-£600 per day
£550 - £600 per day
Outside Spy London, UK
Rate: £600/day Outside IR35 Location: Fully Remote (UK) Duration: 12 months Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Rust Engineer to lead the evolution of our Back End systems. You will develop tooling to optimise the worker acquisition funnel, remove manual bottlenecks, and reduce operational costs. This includes implementing skill verification systems, compliance automation, and engineering the migration away from Legacy Ruby to modern services in Java, Python, and Rust. Your leadership will be pivotal in architectural planning, cross-team collaboration, and the successful decommissioning of the Ruby monolith without service disruption. Key Responsibilities * Design and build large-scale Back End systems that streamline the worker acquisition process and reduce Cost per Hire. * Lead engineering initiatives and provide technical guidance across Java, Python, Rust, and Ruby technologies. * Drive system migrations from monolithic architecture to service-based...
Outside Spy
Feb 26, 2026
Duration not stated
Tech Lead - TypeScript - Node (Contract) at Harnham, London, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London, England, United Kingdom
We're partnering with a fast-growing sports/entertainment business looking to hire a Senior Backend Engineer on a 6-month contract (outside IR35), with potential to convert to permanent (£95k). This is a hands-on tech lead role with ownership of core platform systems powering multiple websites and internal services. The Role You'll take full technical ownership of the NextGen CMS and Master Data (MDM) systems, designing, developing, and mentoring a small team of engineers. This role is perfect for someone who thrives in complex, high-scale environments and wants real impact from day one. Key Responsibilities: Lead development across CMS and MDM systems Maintain and expand complex backend systems (not standard CMS) Mentor engineers and set engineering standards/patterns Drive architecture, integrations, and system scalability Work closely with stakeholders to deliver features and improvements Team Environment: 5 Backend, 3 Frontend engineers, 1 Delivery...
Outside Spy
Feb 26, 2026
Duration not stated
Tech Lead - TypeScript - Node (Contract) at Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment, London, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London, UK
We 're partnering with a fast-growing sports/entertainment business looking to hire a Senior Backend Engineer on a 6-month contract (outside IR35), with potential to convert to permanent ( £95k). This is a hands-on tech lead role with ownership of core platform systems powering multiple websites and internal services. The Role You 'll take full technical ownership of the NextGen CMS and Master Data (MDM) systems, designing, developing, and mentoring a small team of engineers. This role is perfect for someone who thrives in complex, high-scale environments and wants real impact from day one. Key Responsibilities: Lead development across CMS and MDM systems Maintain and expand complex backend systems (not standard CMS) Mentor engineers and set engineering standards/patterns Drive architecture, integrations, and system scalability Work closely with stakeholders to deliver features and improvements Team Environment: 5 Backend, 3...
Outside Spy
Feb 18, 2026
Duration not stated
Python Developer at Arrows, London Area, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London Area, United Kingdom
🚀 Senior Backend Engineer (Python) – AI Platform | High-Growth FinTech - £500 Outside IR35 We’re partnering with a rapidly scaling AI company transforming global debt markets. Their platform centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis and high-value workflows for 300+ leading financial institutions worldwide. With strong product-market fit and rapid international expansion, they’re hiring a Senior Backend (Python) Engineer to take technical ownership across high-impact projects. What You’ll Do Lead system design and deliver scalable backend services Build and evolve APIs, data processing pipelines and automation Mentor engineers and run code reviews Collaborate closely with Product and cross-functional domain experts Continuously improve performance, quality and developer experience What We’re Looking For Strong Python (Flask moving to FastAPI with Typing) backend experience Proven experience building APIs within service-oriented architectures...
Outside Spy
Mar 06, 2026
Duration not stated
Software Deployment Engineer - Contract - Outside IR35 at Mindera, London, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London, UK
Mindera are currently looking for a Software Deployment Engineer to deliver, configure, test, and roll out software and device solutions across multiple environments. You’ll work closely with software engineers, product teams, and platform specialists to ensure seamless deployments that support millions of customers and thousands of colleagues. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys hands-on deployment, automation, configuration, testing, and troubleshooting across a wide technology landscape. This is a hybrid position where you will be expected to be onsite in Bracknell 3 days per week. Requirements Deployment & Configuration (Primary Focus) Deploy application releases across Dev, Test, UAT, Pre-Prod, and Production environments. Configure applications, services, and devices according to environment needs. Automate deployment activities through CI/CD pipelines and scripting. Manage deployment schedules, releases, and environment readiness. Validate...
Outside Spy
Mar 06, 2026
Duration not stated
Software Deployment Engineer - Contract - Outside IR35 at Mindera, London, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London, England, United Kingdom
Mindera are currently looking for a Software Deployment Engineer to deliver, configure, test, and roll out software and device solutions across multiple environments. You'll work closely with software engineers, product teams, and platform specialists to ensure seamless deployments that support millions of customers and thousands of colleagues. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys hands-on deployment, automation, configuration, testing, and troubleshooting across a wide technology landscape. This is a hybrid position where you will be expected to be onsite in Bracknell 3 days per week. Requirements Deployment & Configuration (Primary Focus) Deploy application releases across Dev, Test, UAT, Pre-Prod, and Production environments Configure applications, services, and devices according to environment needs Automate deployment activities through CI/CD pipelines and scripting Manage deployment schedules, releases, and environment readiness...
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Mar 06, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior / Lead Full-Stack TypeScript Engineer (GraphQL Specialist) | Contract | TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL | Large-Scale Media Platform | £500-600/day Outside IR35 | 6 Months | London Hybrid 2 days at Owen Thomas | Pending B Corp™, London Area, £500-£600
£500 - £600 per day
Outside Spy London Area, United Kingdom
Senior / Lead Full-Stack TypeScript Engineer (GraphQL Specialist) | Contract | TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL | Large-Scale Media Platform | £500-600/day Outside IR35 | 6 Months | London Hybrid 2 days We’re supporting one of the UK’s largest consumer digital platforms as they scale their engineering capability across several high-traffic products used by millions of customers. They’re looking for Senior / Lead Full-Stack TypeScript Engineers with deep GraphQL expertise to help evolve and scale their API architecture. This role sits within a high-performing product engineering team responsible for building and maintaining critical services that power modern web and mobile experiences. You’ll play a key role in designing and evolving GraphQL schemas, improving API architecture, and delivering performant full-stack applications within a mature engineering environment. This is an opportunity to work on complex distributed systems at significant scale, collaborating...
Outside Spy
Mar 06, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Software Engineer at Switch Tech Talent, United Kingdom, £475-£500 per day
£475 - £500 per day
Outside Spy Remote (United Kingdom)
💻 Role: Senior Full Stack Engineer (Backend leaning/Node/AWS) 🌍 Location: Remote First - MUST be UK based (London HQ once a quarter) 💰 Rate: £475-£500 per day ⚖️ Status: Outside IR35 (6 months rolling) 🛠 Key Skills: TypeScript, Node.js, React, AWS (Serverless) We're partnered with Ecommerce company seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer Engineer who is heavily backend leaning to join the team ASAP. The non negotiables for them are TypeScript, Node.JS, AWS (Serverless). Senior Full Stack Engineer Responsibilities: Perform hands-on software development, including writing code and unit tests, doing proof of concepts, conducting code reviews, and testing in ongoing sprints. Mentoring other engineers, helping to support their professional development. Designing and implementing innovative solutions to challenging web development problems. Participate in system design and specifications, development, testing, debugging, documentation, and support. Providing...
Outside Spy
Mar 06, 2026
Duration not stated
Software Deployment Engineer - Contract - Outside IR35 at Mindera, Multiple Locations, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy United Kingdom
Mindera are currently looking for a Software Deployment Engineer to deliver, configure, test, and roll out software and device solutions across multiple environments. You’ll work closely with software engineers, product teams, and platform specialists to ensure seamless deployments that support millions of customers and thousands of colleagues. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys hands-on deployment, automation, configuration, testing, and troubleshooting across a wide technology landscape. This is a hybrid position where you will be expected to be onsite in Bracknell 3 days per week. Requirements Deployment & Configuration (Primary Focus) Deploy application releases across Dev, Test, UAT, Pre-Prod, and Production environments. Configure applications, services, and devices according to environment needs. Automate deployment activities through CI/CD pipelines and scripting. Manage deployment schedules, releases, and environment readiness....
Outside Spy
Mar 05, 2026
Duration not stated
Engineering Manager at Mindera, London, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London, England, United Kingdom
We are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - designing, building, releasing, and maintaining products. You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team, environment, and culture. This is an initial 6 month contract (outside IR35) that requires you to work on client site 3 days a week in London, Paddington. Requirements Your key accountabilities will include: Team Management: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members. Ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload, balance across projects. Agile...
Outside Spy
Mar 05, 2026
Duration not stated
AWS DevOps Contractor at SoCode Limited, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, £550 to £700 per Day
£550 - £700 per day
Outside Spy Marlow, Buckinghamshire
AWS Contractor | 2 Months | Hybrid | Marlow, Buckinghamshire I am currently recruiting for a global leader in designing and manufacturing of audio and content creation tools, from microphones to audio interfaces, using AI technologies to enhance the future of audio and video processing. We are looking for a hands-on platform engineer with enough real-world scar tissue to know where production systems tend to snap. You’ll assist in taking a cloud-native, AI-enabled backend from “works” to production-grade. You’ll strengthen AWS foundations, improve deployment safety, harden security, upgrade observability, and ensure our inference and pipeline workloads can scale reliably and cost effectively. Key Skills Needed: Strong AWS delivery experience across: IAM, VPC/networking, compute (ECS/EKS/Lambda/EC2), load balancing, RDS/Aurora, DNS, logging/monitoring, security services. Proven ability to take systems into production (not just “I can Terraform a VPC”). Deep IaC experience...
Outside Spy
Mar 03, 2026
Duration not stated
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (AI/ML Specialist) at Careerwise, London Area, £500 per day
£500 per day
Outside Spy London Area, United Kingdom
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (AI/ML Specialist) Contract role, 12 months duration Rate- £500/day Outside ir35, fully work from Home The role is with one of our Global Clients looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with deep expertise in AI-powered application development to join their team. This is a senior individual contributor role with opportunities to work on complex, high-impact AI projects across Azure cloud Infrastructure, and AI/ML platforms. Responsibilities: - Design and build scalable, enterprise-grade full-stack multi-agent , agentic AI applications using modern frameworks including Python, Next.js, TypeScript and Node.js. Architect and integrate AI/ML capabilities including RAG pipelines, AI agent orchestration, and LLM-powered features using OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and LangChain/LangGraph Lead technical design decisions across API design, microservices architectures, translating complex business requirements into clean,...
Outside Spy
Mar 02, 2026
Duration not stated
Django SME at Bright Purple Resourcing, Multiple Locations, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy United Kingdom
Django SME (AWS / FastAPI) £450 - £475 per day (Outside IR35) Remote (9 Month Initial Contract) We’re hiring a genuine Django Subject Matter Expert to lead the build of a high-performance FastAPI application within AWS. We need a Senior Engineer who understands backend architecture properly and can deliver from day one - scalable, secure and production-ready. You’ll drive design decisions, own implementation standards and set best practice across the backend estate. What You’ll Be Doing: • Designing and delivering production-grade Django applications • Leading AWS architecture decisions (application + infrastructure) • Building robust REST / CRUD APIs • Implementing secure authentication, authorisation and SSO patterns • Debugging AWS networking and performance issues • Optimising resource consumption (CPU, memory, storage, network) • Embedding secure coding standards and mitigating backend attack vectors What You...
Outside Spy
Mar 02, 2026
Duration not stated
Databricks Data Engineer at Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment, London, £Contract Rate
Outside Spy London, UK
Databricks Data Engineer £500 - £550 per day Outside IR35 We 're partnering with a leading online retail company that 's transforming the way data and real-time intelligence shape customer experiences. Their mission is to harness cutting-edge data and streaming technologies to drive smarter decisions, improve efficiency, and create personalised journeys for millions of shoppers worldwide. The Role As a Senior Data Engineer, you 'll play a key role in developing and optimising the backbone of the company 's data platform. You 'll be responsible for building and maintaining large-scale, real-time data pipelines that power analytics, machine learning, and operational systems across the business. You 'll collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and analytics teams to ensure the platform delivers reliable, high-quality, and compliant data at scale. This is a hands-on engineering role that blends software craftsmanship with data architecture...
Outside Spy
Feb 27, 2026
up to 6 Months
Full Stack .NET Developer | £600 Outside IR35 | Active SC Clearance | 2 days per week on site in MK at Solirius Limited, Milton Keynes, 4 Months, £600 per day
£600 per day
Outside Spy Milton Keynes, UK
Full Stack .NET Developer | £600 Outside IR35 | 2 days per week on site in Milton Keynes | Active SC clearance required The Role We are looking for experienced Full-Stack .NET Engineers with a background in data-centric projects to join our consultancy team, deployed directly into high-profile public sector departments. You will be a key member of a multidisciplinary delivery team, responsible for both front and Back End development of the digital services that power essential public functions. In this role, you will bring a data-centric engineering mindset to the development lifecycle. You will be responsible for building robust, data-driven applications that handle complex logic and large datasets with precision. Your expertise will ensure that data is captured, processed, and surfaced securely and efficiently, adhering to modern standards for data integrity and performance within the .NET ecosystem. The role involves embedding yourself within the client's engineering...
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