- Role: Full Stack Developer
- Role type: Permanent
- Role hours: Full time/Flexible
- Location: Leeds
- Salary: Competitive
- Deadline: 31st July 2025
Who we are:
The Data City is a tech scale up, a SaaS provider of business data to Government and the private sector. We develop definitive economic insights using Open Data, The Web, and Artificial Intelligence.
We are building one of the world’s most valuable data assets, measuring economic growth, innovation, and investment. We are disrupting how decisions are made about economic policy and investments in our cities and towns; our ambition is global.
We are based in Leeds and operate across the UK, working with a wide range of national and local government organisations and private companies. Our next stage of growth involves the development of a global product.
About you:
You are capable and curious, with experience across a range of development stacks, as comfortable on working on Front End adaptions as you are in considering database requirements.
We want someone who cares about the detail and looks at the ‘full cycle’ of the product, considering the implications of requested changes, solving problems and constantly thinking about future opportunities.
What you will do:
You will work directly with the development lead and the development team to maintain the existing core products of The Data City. These have been developed, optimised, documented, and made reliable over the past five years. This is a compute-intensive but stable technology stack built on C#, DuckDB, Parquet and more, all running on Linux using Docker and Azure Web Apps. At the core of our platform is a Machine Learning application available to our customers to use.
The development team work collaboratively with the data science team to explore new ideas, develop new products and understand interesting datasets. This including tasks such as using the latest in AI/ML/LLM technology, optimising our data pipelines, web scraping etc.
You will be keen to quickly transition to playing a key role in the development of this core product and our next stage of growth. We have a commitment to efficient code and trustworthy algorithms, and an exciting roadmap to be even better.
We know that your experience and ideas will improve it and we are keen for you make suggestions for improvements.
You will work as part of a team understanding what we are delivering in our projects to clients, and in our core, SaaS offering, this is the way that we all understand what features our clients need from our product now and in the future.
Your Qualifications & Experience:
You will probably have most of,
- At least one year of experience in a software development role
- A GitHub (or similar) account and some history of publishing as well as using open source and shared code
- Some record of working in the open, sharing code and ideas, attending events relevant to your profession
- We have very high standards, and we trust you to meet them without micro-management
What we will provide:
- Opportunity to work in a world leading data science and economics scale-up with big ambitions and the team to deliver these
- An extensive healthcare package (currently Vitality)
- Medicash plan
- Nest pension
- Guidance on your work with autonomy to create and implement your ideas
- The tools, computers, and software, that you need to do a great job
- A personalised plan focused on supporting you to deliver YOUR best
Next steps:
- Alternatives to a standard CV are accepted but please keep them short.
Interview process is 2 stages:
1st stage – interviews will be done as a short phone call, circa 20 minutes– only prep required would be to research our company.
2nd stage – a task will be set, you would return this ahead of an in person interview.
We will be interviewing for this role before the deadline, therefore you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
We are open to flexible/part-time and other options – please do apply as we want to make this position as accessible as possible.