Full Stack Engineer

Skills

Job Specifications

Build the technical foundation of one of the UK's leading end-of-life platforms

The opportunity

Aura is building a new kind of end-of-life company - one that brings clarity, warmth, and modern thinking to a category most companies get wrong. We support thousands of people through the hardest decisions and stages of life.

We're looking for a senior full-stack engineer to join a small tech and product team and take genuine ownership of our technical function. This is not a ticket-picking role in a large engineering org. You'll work directly with a product team across discovery, build and iteration - and you'll work directly with the CTO on the platforms, infrastructure, and integrations that keep the business running.

What you'll own

Product and feature development

Work across the full product cycle - from early problem definition through to shipped features - in close collaboration with product and design
Contribute to exploratory new product work where the problem space is still being defined
Build for real users navigating some of the most significant moments of their lives

Platform and infrastructure

Manage WordPress platform end-to-end: performance, plugin management, security, staging, and ongoing improvements
Maintain and modernise existing solutions, including legacy codebases, reducing technical debt incrementally without disrupting what's working
Deploy and maintain applications using AWS and Docker

Integrations and internal tooling

Build and maintain integrations across internal systems including HubSpot and ClickUp
Take joint ownership of the technical backbone that keeps the business running day-to-day

What success looks like

In six months, you'll know you're succeeding when:

The WordPress platform is stable, well-documented, and improving consistently
New product features are shipping at pace without accumulating new debt
The codebase is cleaner and better understood than when you joined
You're an active, trusted voice in product and design conversations - not just a delivery function

What we're looking for

6+ years of full-stack experience with Laravel/PHP and React or Next.js at the core
Hands-on experience with WordPress beyond themes - performance, architecture and security
Comfortable with AWS and Docker deployments
Familiar with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or GitLab CI)
Experienced making architectural decisions in a startup or scale-up environment without a large team around you
Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code or similar) as a genuine productivity multiplier - with the judgement to know when to override them

Bonus, not essential:

Experience working in a product trio alongside a PM and designer
Familiarity with JTBD or other customer discovery approaches
Experience with Symfony or PHP 7 legacy migration

Who you are

Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity - you don't need a large team or detailed specs to do good work
Genuinely interested in building products that help people, not just ship code
Commercially aware enough to know which technical decisions serve the business and which don't
Someone who wants ownership, not just responsibility

Salary and package

£60-70k
Contract-to-perm (preferred but negotiable)
Fully remote (UK-based)
Unlimited holiday with a high-trust, flexible culture
Opportunity to work abroad for one month a year
Wellness apps and anonymous counselling support

About the Company

The best way to have a peaceful end of life is to prepare for it. Remove the worry, uncertainty and distress about dying for yourself and your family with a complete set of end-of-life planning tools and celebration of life funeral plans. Our vision is to change the dialogue around death and become a movement for change. At Aura, we believe both life and death should be discussed, celebrated and managed properly. Aura Life Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Firm Reference Number 976308... Know more