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Lead Full Stack Engineer

About AXA:
AXA is a global leader in insurance and financial services, dedicated to helping customers protect what matters most to them. As the sixth-largest insurance company in the world, we provide a wide range of services, including health, car, home, and business insurance. We support millions of customers worldwide, helping them navigate life's uncertainties with confidence.

AXA Health supports members to put their health first, from individuals to huge corporates, with fast access to diagnosis and treatment when they need it.

Job overview:

We're looking for an experienced Lead Full Stack Engineer to join our Engineering team, supporting the delivery of our digital roadmap, to develop our people, capabilities & support engineering strategy to drive improvements across all teams. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a product-led operating model, where all our teams are value stream aligned with all the different resource types needed to get from idea to done with minimal hand-offs. We're focused on building out our Single Digital Platform, including several React frontend web portals, a .NET API estate & use of Azure services connected to our Salesforce platform.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading an agile engineering team, inspiring excellence, being hands-on to set best practices & ensure correct designs and implementation, taking ownership of meeting delivery outcomes as per our product roadmap
• Driving the design, development & ongoing support of integrations surrounding our strategic customer platform, focusing mainly on the frontend technology stack but with the ability to move into the backend
• Acting as a line manager and mentor for members of our development team
• Promoting continuous improvement both within specific technology areas & across the IT department
Work arrangements:

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means attending the office, visiting clients or attending industry events. We're also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

Your skills & experience:

• Proven experience leading a high performing engineering team
• Expert in building and delivering high quality, well tested integration solutions in front end technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript & React
• Ability to deliver complex solutions to time and budget
• Hands on experience building CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code, Azure DevOps and Azure platform preferred
• Hands-on commercial experience using and promoting AI engineering tools within your team
• Good understanding of current and emerging technologies
• Ability to translate business strategy into technical solutions and business requirements into technical design
• Experience in Microsoft C# .NET, such as APIs, serverless functions and messaging workflows, ideally on the Microsoft Azure platform
• Understanding or experience integrating with Salesforce is desirable

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

How to apply:

To apply, click on the 'apply now' button, you'll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We're proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don't discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long-term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we're proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. For our support, please send an email to lauren.standen@axa-insurance.co.uk.

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Lead Full Stack Engineer

Sandown Park, Royal Tunbridge Wells TN2 4PY, UK
Full-Time

Published on 24/04/2026

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