Full-stack developer

Full Stack Developer required by an award-winning sustainable fintech

About Us

Neural Alpha is an award winning sustainable technology consultancy developing innovative solutions to many of the worlds most significant challenges. We are experts in Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Graphs and other bleeding edge technologies and looking to expand our team of full stack developers to support business growth and support mission critical applications for clients.

Neural Alpha has extensive experience in developing software for the financial sector, corporates and maritime use cases leveraging the latest data science, big data, machine learning, data visualisation and AI Large Language Models. Our platforms are used by hundreds of bluechip institutions daily to meet regulatory requirements and integrate AI into everyday workflows. Our work has been featured on national television, The Economist and in the Financial Times. We were also one of nine companies selected by the FCA in the Green FinTech Challenge.

We use a modern, exciting tech stack and we are proud of the relaxed, innovative and collaborative environment we have created. We are solving unique and fascinating challenges, and we have a great team of super-bright people at our vibrant London office in Kennington, London. Neural Alpha offers hybrid working valuing both remote time and face-to-face interaction highly.

About the role

We are recruiting for an experienced Full Stack Developer for our Maritime practice in a team of 4 - 3 x full stack developers and 1 x product / business analyst. Our fintech practice develops data & software products for the financial and shipping industries which are used everyday across the world by thousands of brokers, intelligence providers, investment managers and others. This role is a high profile role within Neural Alpha to support a mission critical, tier 1 application for our clients which is actively used by thousands of users 16 hours a day. The platform is a cutting edge microservice architecture based on AWS which calculates and distributes financial indices. It was architected and fully developed in-house over the last 5 years and has an exciting roadmap of future enhancements and developments planned for the next few years.

Required skills:

• Javascript/Typescript on both sides of the stack
• GraphQL
• Node.js
• React
• Python
• MongoDB

Required experience:

• 3+ years of commercial experience
• STEM, or ideally Computer Science, educational background
• Previous experience with modern front-end development frameworks (especially React)
• Experience with CI/CD deployment infrastructure BitBucket or GiHub
• Moderate experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• Experience with CoPilot, Windsurf, Amazon Q or similar IDE AI tooling is desired but not essential.
• Good client relationship management, communication and presentation skills
• Enjoy the “start-up” culture, be willing to get involved, learn and share knowledge with your peers
• Is a curious person that likes to understand the whole stack and architecture of software, even if you are only working directly with a small part of it.

Locations

• London based (in office) with remote working from home

Hiring Process

1. Initial Interview
2. 2nd Interview / Technical exercise
3. Final interview & exercise feedback

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification listed. Many great candidates may not check every box, and research shows that people from underrepresented groups often underestimate their fit for a role. If you’re interested in this work, please don’t hesitate to submit an application. The systems we’re building have significant social and ethical impacts, so it’s especially important to us to bring together a team with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.