Full Stack Engineer

About the role

The Pod Engineer(Full Stack Engineer+AI) is a hands-on software engineer working within a small, outcome-focused pod (4–5 engineers) to deliver high-quality software. Operating in an AI-native delivery model, you will leverage AI tools across the SDLC—from requirements analysis and design to code generation, testing, documentation, and optimization—to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and reduce manual effort. As an engineer, you will partner with AI while retaining full accountability for solution correctness, security, maintainability, and production readiness.

What you'll be doing

• Design, build, test, deploy, and support software components across backend, frontend, APIs, and integrations.
• Own features end-to-end, from requirements understanding through production deployment.
• Leverage AI tools (Copilot, Amazon Kiro, Claude Code, Cursor) for requirements analysis, code generation, testing, documentation, and release activities.
• Validate AI-generated outputs for correctness, security, maintainability, and production readiness.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code aligned with engineering standards.
• Participate in code reviews, pair programming, design discussions, Agile ceremonies, retrospectives, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with Pod Leads and fellow engineers to deliver business outcomes.
• Follow secure coding, governance, data protection, and risk management practices.
• Continuously enhance expertise in modern software engineering, AI-assisted development, prompt engineering, and emerging technologies.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience delivering production-grade systems.
• Solid understanding of data structures, APIs, testing, CI/CD, debugging, and software engineering fundamentals.
• Expertise in Java or Python with exposure to React, Flutter, PostgreSQL, and Neptune DB.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud environments.
• Experience in Agile/iterative delivery models.
• Practical exposure to AI-assisted development tools and AI-supported testing/documentation.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• 3–5 years of experience working in small, cross-functional squads/pods with shared ownership and accountability for outcomes.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and modern CI/CD delivery pipelines.
• Passion for leveraging AI-powered tools and practices to enhance software development efficiency and quality

About us

BT is the UK's leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country's most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country's most important companies.