Full Stack Engineer - Must be DV Cleared

Full Stack Engineer

Contract | 6 months+ | UK hybrid | DV Cleared

Morela is proud to be supporting a sovereign AI business whose software has to run where most software cannot: offline, locked down, and under real scrutiny. Their platform is an AI operating system built for exactly those conditions.

They are well funded, growing quickly, and already live on serious government and commercial programmes. The engineering team is small and senior, so nobody here is a spare pair of hands.

The Job

You would sit inside the delivery team on a defence programme and build across the whole stack. Python services and pipelines at one end, the TypeScript front end that operators actually use at the other. The environments you ship into have no internet, the deadlines do not move, and the requirements will.

It is a high trust seat. You take a problem from a conversation with the customer through to something running in production, and you are the one on site when it needs fixing. In exchange you get properly hard problems, senior people around you, and real influence over a product that matters.

Not many engineers get this close to sovereign AI in defence. What is being built here will shape how these organisations work for years.

What the Work Looks Like

Building and maintaining features top to bottom: Python back end services and APIs, React and TypeScript on the front.

Getting software into secure, air-gapped and sensitive environments, which means on-site deployment, integration and troubleshooting.

Owning features properly. Scope it with the technical lead, CTO and customer, build it, test it, ship it, then support it.

Containerising services and shaping how the platform runs on Kubernetes and bare-metal Linux.

Writing code you would be happy to inherit, and holding that same line in review.

Fixing production problems calmly, usually with less tooling than you would like and someone waiting on you.

Working alongside the data, AI and platform engineers so models, pipelines and infrastructure land as one product rather than three.

Improving the day to day: CI/CD, observability, security hardening, documentation.

Sitting in front of customers and partners and turning what they need into something buildable.

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