Full-Stack Development

Full-stack development recruitment connects businesses with engineers who work across front-end applications, back-end systems, APIs, databases, and cloud platforms.

SGI supports contract, permanent, and embedded hiring across the UK, Europe, and the USA, with access to a strong network. Speak to our team to discuss your hiring plans or next career move. 

Placing Frontend Talent Across the UK & Europe

SGI builds full-stack engineering teams by mapping each role against your technical stack, product environment, and delivery requirements, then shortlisting only developers who match before they reach an interview.

As a full-stack development recruitment specialist, SGI supports SaaS, FinTech, E-commerce, HealthTech, EdTech, and digital product organisations hiring across JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, Vue.js, Node.js, Python, Java, and .NET environments. 

Our network includes Full-Stack Developers, Senior Full-Stack Engineers, Product Engineers, Technical Leads, and Software Architects across the UK, Europe, and the USA, giving organisations access to talent across contract, permanent, and embedded hiring models. 

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Full-Stack Roles We Recruit For

SGI recruits Full-Stack Developers, Senior Full-Stack Engineers, Product Engineers, Lead Full-Stack Developers, Software Architects, and Technical Leads across the UK, Europe and the USA. 

Build and maintain applications across front-end interfaces, back-end systems, APIs, and cloud-connected environments. 

  • Develop customer-facing applications and internal platforms
  • Work across front-end and back-end development workflows
  • Build and integrate APIs against relational and cloud-connected databases 

Tools: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, REST APIs

Typical salary: £70,000–£125,000 per year (permanent), or £450–£850 per day (contract). 

Lead technical delivery across complex software products and distributed engineering teams. 

  • Support architecture and scalability decisions
  • Improve application performance and engineering standards
  • Mentor mid-level engineers and own technical delivery across distributed teams 

Tools: AWS, Azure, microservices, TypeScript, React

Typical salary: £80,000–£140,000+ per year (permanent), or £600–£850 per day (contract). 

Combine software engineering with product thinking to deliver user-focused digital products. 

  • Work closely with product and design teams
  • Build features aligned to customer requirements
  • Ship and iterate on user-facing functionality across the full stack 

Tools: React, Angular, Vue.js, TypeScript, JavaScript

Typical salary: £55,000–£110,000 per year (permanent), or £450–£850 per day (contract). 

Provide technical leadership across engineering teams and delivery programmes. 

  • Mentor engineers and review technical approaches
  • Support software quality and delivery standards
  • Set engineering direction across multiple delivery programmes 

Tools: Node.js, React, AWS, Azure, microservices

Typical salary: £100,000–£140,000+ per year (permanent), or £650–£950 per day (contract). 

Design scalable application architecture and technical roadmaps. 

  • Define architecture standards and integration patterns
  • Support platform scalability and long-term development strategy
  • Own data modelling decisions across relational and NoSQL stores 

Tools: AWS, Azure, microservices, SQL, NoSQL

Typical salary: £95,000–£150,000+ per year (permanent), or £700–£1,150+ per day (contract). 

Bridge technical delivery, architecture, and team leadership. 

  • Coordinate engineering delivery across teams
  • Support development standards and technical decision-making
  • Translate product requirements into technical delivery plans 

Tools: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js

Typical salary: £95,000–£140,000+ per year (permanent), or £650–£950 per day (contract). 

 

Hire Full-Stack Developers

Build engineering teams across front-end, back-end, and cloud environments with access to our full-stack network across the UK, Europe, and the USA. 

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Our Full-Stack Recruitment Services

SGI delivers contract, permanent, retained, and embedded hiring solutions across modern software engineering environments.

Structured hiring for organisations building long-term engineering capability. Every candidate is screened for technical depth, cultural fit, and how they work within a product team before a shortlist is shared. 

Who it's for: Product teams, software businesses, and enterprise engineering functions. 

When to use it: Building permanent software engineering capability. 

Access to contract full-stack developers across the UK, Europe, and North America for delivery-focused projects and short-term engineering requirements. 

Who it's for: Organisations needing additional engineering capacity. 

When to use it: Product launches, migrations, platform builds, and transformation programmes. 

Multi-stage search and assessment process focused on senior engineering and architecture hires. 

Who it's for: Organisations hiring technical leaders and senior engineering talent. 

When to use it: Strategic hires where architecture, scalability, and leadership experience are critical. 

How SGI Source Full-Stack Talent

SGI's full-stack database includes 5,071 developers across JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, cloud platforms, and modern software engineering environments. 

Our coverage extends across the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Benelux, and the USA, giving clients access to talent across multiple hiring markets. The network spans across Full-Stack Developers, Product Engineers, Senior Full-Stack Engineers, Technical Leads, and Software Architects, with 23% being female.

We provide a deep market understanding of who is actually available and what a realistic, diverse shortlist looks like in the market. 

Skills data provides a clear view of where engineering expertise sits. JavaScript appears in 79% of profiles, React in 46%, and TypeScript in 39%, reflecting the technologies most commonly used across modern product teams. 

The talent we source is through our direct networks, referrals, and the Beyond the Code developer community, alongside regular engagement with engineering professionals across multiple markets. We’re at the forefront of the market and have access to a pool of talent before they’re even on the market.  

SGI supports contract, permanent, and embedded hiring models for organisations ranging from venture-backed scale-ups to global enterprise businesses. Our NPS of 82 reflects the quality of service delivered across those engagements, the kind of experience that makes SGI a partner clients want to keep working with. 

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Find Your Next Full-Stack Role

Explore contract and permanent opportunities across product engineering, software development, architecture, and technical leadership environments.

Roles span React, Node.js, TypeScript, cloud platforms, and modern software teams. 

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Full-Stack Recruitment FAQs

A strong full-stack developer can work confidently across the front-end, back-end, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure and understands how those layers fit together. Most combine a core language and framework, such as JavaScript with React, with experience deploying to AWS, Azure, or GCP. 

Beyond the technical stack, the developers who stand out tend to bring product awareness, an understanding of scalability and security, and the communication skills to work across engineering, product, and design.

When SGI assesses candidates, we look at this wider picture rather than a checklist of technologies, which is how we match developers who fit the way your team actually builds. 

Full-stack hiring demand remains very high across the UK, Europe and the USA, particularly for engineers with React, TypeScript, cloud, and architecture experience, making competition for experienced candidates consistently strong. 

Timelines vary depending on seniority, location, and technical stack requirements. SGI supports organisations through structured contract, permanent, and embedded hiring processes designed to improve hiring efficiency and candidate quality. 

Cloud experience is increasingly expected in modern full-stack roles because most applications operate within cloud-connected or cloud-native environments built on AWS, Azure, or GCP infrastructure. 

Many employers look for experience across cloud services, APIs, databases, scalability, and distributed systems alongside front-end and back-end development capability. 

Senior full-stack roles place the highest value on architecture ownership, scalability, technical leadership, mentoring, and experience delivering software across complex engineering environments. 

Organisations hiring Senior Full-Stack Engineers, Product Engineers, Lead Full-Stack Developers, and Software Architects place a premium on these capabilities, with compensation rising in line with architecture ownership, technical leadership, and the complexity of the engineering environment.