Full Stack Developer / Software Engineer

At a glance:

🕑 Full-time starting October 2025, with hybrid working

😎 Mid (minimum 3 years experience)

💰 Experienced-based salary between £55k - 70k

📍 London (minimum 3 office days/week)

⭐ Five-stars on Glassdoor

🌴 Generous 30 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays

🏆 Leading benefits package & competitive salary

🅱 Work for a Certified B Corporation™

💹 Opportunity to get in at the ground floor of a purpose-driven , fast-paced, fast-growth company in the outdoor industry; lots of scope for your growth!

What is the job role?

We’re seeking a mid-weight Full Stack Developer with expertise in Nuxt/Nitro and Shopify APIs to join our growing Tech Team. You’ll work closely with our Senior Developer to deliver high-quality, scalable ecommerce experiences and internal tools.

Our headless stack combines Nuxt 3 (Vue), Shopify (products, checkout, orders), DatoCMS, and bespoke internal APIs. This role is central to building, optimising, and maintaining the systems that power both our customer experience and internal business processes.

Key Responsibilities:

✔ Ownership and implementation of features across the stack from our user-facing storefront to backend services
✔ Build confidence in features with automated testing
✔ Develop and maintain API integrations across our tech stack – including Shopify APIs, 3rd party tools, and bespoke internal systems
✔ Contribute to our internal component library, Vision
✔ Ensure our digital experience is fast, responsive, accessible and built for scale
✔ Work cross-functionally with design, marketing and ecommerce to support campaigns, launches and growth initiatives
✔ Contribute to architectural and technical decisions with the wider business
Participate in code reviews and promote a culture of engineering excellence

✔ Understand SunGod’s triple bottom line of people, planet and profit, and incorporate this into your job role every day.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone with 3+ years of full-stack development experience, preferably within an eCommerce setting, with an eye for detail and interest in the sport/outdoor industry!

The ideal person has the following skills, experiences and competencies:

✔ 3+ years of full-stack development experience, preferably within an eCommerce setting
✔ Strong programming fundamentals with experience using modern frameworks. We use Nuxt 3 on our frontend with Nitro powering some of our APIs. Part of this role will be providing expertise on the future direction of our backend
✔ Open to the practical use of AI within a business environment
✔ Previous experience of working directly with a senior leadership team to translate business requirements into solutions
✔ Experience working with headless systems such as CMS’ and Commerce Platforms such as Shopify
✔ Proven ability to build and integrate with APIs and webhooks
✔ Experience of different data storage methods and when to use them: MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, as some examples
✔ Experience interacting with cloud infrastructure such as Vercel and Google Cloud Platform
✔ Passion for clean, maintainable code and continuous improvement
✔ Championing new tools, frameworks, or workflows to boost efficiency
✔ Stay up to date with web development and ecommerce trends
✔ Understanding of conversion-focused, performance-led UX principles
✔ Self-starter who thrives in a fast-moving, collaborative environment

Additional experience that would be beneficial:

✔ Background in outdoor, sport or active lifestyle brands, but you do not need to be a sports fanatic to work here
✔ Experience in a high-growth D2C or scale-up environment
✔ Exposure to product customisation tools
✔ Familiarity with SEO, A/B testing and analytic tools
✔ Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Google Cloud Platform
✔ Experience with Vue and Typescript
✔ Experience with CI/CD processes

What can we offer you?

Certified B Corporation

Working for a Certified B Corp means joining a community using business as a force for good, contributing to the triple bottom line; People, Planet and Profit.

Benefits

✔ Enjoy flexible working hours and locations;

✔ Generous 30-day holiday plus bank holidays;

✔ Competitive starting salary with annual performance-based reviews and bonus scheme;

✔ Professional training, life-skill & development budget;

✔ Free mental health support with unlimited access to Spill therapy;

✔ Cycle to work scheme & annual bike servicing;

✔ HealthShield Cash Plan;

✔ Monthly financial health benefit;

✔ 16 hours of fully paid volunteering annually;

✔ Charitable donation matching;

✔ Annual SunGod team events;

✔ Free product plus a family & friends discount;

✔ Dynamic, stimulating and rewarding work in a purpose-driven company;

✔ Central London office

Flexible working

We thrive with high-performing individuals, offering both growth and flexibility in return. We prioritise your impact, not the time spent at a desk. We encourage the team to fit in hobbies and personal commitments around their work time, ensuring objectives are met and output is always to the highest standard.

As a collaborative team, we value a minimum of 3 days in the office each week, fostering our close-knit team.

Culture of Continuous Development & Learning

Our growth doesn't end at a company level, we endorse and encourage individual growth through developing our professional skills, evolving careers and honing life-skills. There is budget, time and, most importantly, support given to every employee.

Diversity & Inclusion at SunGod

SunGod values a diverse workforce. We’re committed to recruiting people from all walks of life and backgrounds to reflect our customers and our community and to help make our business stronger. We're not looking for "culture fit" candidates, instead, we're looking for those who expand our culture, challenge business as usual and bring their whole selves to work. To support our people we offer family-friendly, inclusive recruitment and employment policies, flexible working arrangements and a range of benefits to suit your circumstances.

What to expect from this application…

This application will ask a few questions about you and your experience.

You will be required to upload a CV at this stage, so it is ready for a future stage.

Based on your application, you may then be invited to complete a skills-based task followed by a panel interview and a final interview.

Blind Applications

In the first stages of our process, your name and other details will be hidden from your CV and application to remove potential unconscious bias in our hiring processes, and to ensure we hire the best candidate for the role.

A tip before you start...

Before you begin, we recommend you take a moment to ask yourself these questions: Why me? Why this role? Why SunGod?