Christopher Ali

About the Company

Christopher Ali are a technology focused recruitment agency specialising in placing the best tech talent in both permanent and contract roles across the UK and Europe.

With close to a decade worth of experience in the recruitment technology space, Christopher Ali are the go to specialists for a number of start ups, SMEs and large corporate enteprises.

Listed Jobs

Company Name

Christopher Ali

Job Title

Frontend Developer

Job Description

Job Title: Frontend Developer Role Summary: Build and maintain high‑quality web interfaces using Vue.js for a data‑heavy Med‑Tech platform. Deliver scalable, accessible components, collaborate closely with backend engineers, and influence UX decisions for an early‑stage product. Expectations: Deliver fully functional frontend components on time, ensure clean integration with APIs, and provide UX‑focused solutions for complex workflows. Maintain performance, accessibility, and code quality standards throughout. Key Responsibilities: - Design and develop core Vue.js components that form the foundation of the user interface. - Create reusable, scalable UI components with a focus on performance, accessibility, and maintainability. - Integrate frontend components with backend APIs, ensuring reliable data flow and seamless collaboration with backend engineers. - Apply UX judgment to balance clarity, usability, speed, and aesthetics in a data‑rich environment. - Influence product and UX direction, contributing meaningful input on platform evolution. Required Skills: - 3+ years of front‑end development in a commercial software environment. - Deep experience with Vue.js and building modern web interfaces. - Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS. - Proven track record of integrating front‑end applications with backend APIs. - Excellent UX instincts for complex, data‑rich products, with the ability to work autonomously in the absence of a dedicated design team. Required Education & Certifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

London, United kingdom

On site

Junior

14-01-2026

Company Name

Christopher Ali

Job Title

Full Stack Engineer

Job Description

Job title: Full Stack Engineer Role Summary: Design, develop and deploy end‑to‑end services for a med‑tech platform using Python (FastAPI) for backend APIs and Vue.js for frontend UI, with a focus on AI‑driven data pipelines and semantic search. Operate and scale cloud infrastructure on AWS, ensuring reliability and performance. Expactations: Founder-level ownership of technical direction, product quality, and engineering standards. Deliver fully functional features from data model to user interface, mentor teammates, and influence toolchain decisions. Must be highly autonomous, proactive, and comfortable working 3 days in office and remotely. Key Responsibilities: - Architect and implement backend services and APIs in FastAPI, including ingestion pipelines, embeddings, and recommendation logic. - Build responsive Vue.js components that translate complex AI outputs into intuitive user flows. - Own feature lifecycle: data modeling, API contract design, UI development, and end‑to‑end demonstrations. - Deploy scalable services on AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, networking) using Docker containers and Compose. - Maintain high‑performance APIs for semantic search, clustering, and graph‑based recommendations. - Apply UX judgment to reduce friction and iterate on tooling, interfaces, and workflows. - Lead technical decision‑making, standards, and tooling evolution within the engineering team. Required Skills: - ≥5 years Python engineering experience; strong background in building production services. - Proficiency in FastAPI (or Flask), Docker, and Docker Compose. - Experience with Vue.js (or React.js) for frontend component development. - Familiarity with graph databases such as Neo4j and vector search frameworks. - Comfortable with AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, networking) and cloud‑native deployment. - Basic understanding of embeddings, large language model APIs, or vector‑search integration. - Excellent problem‑solving, product sense, and ability to influence technical direction. Required Education & Certifications: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

London, United kingdom

Hybrid

Mid level

21-01-2026

Company Name

Christopher Ali

Job Title

Platform Engineer

Job Description

Job title: Platform Engineer Role Summary: Design, build, and maintain scalable, serverless infrastructure for an AI‑focused startup, ensuring reliability, security, and maintainability across Vercel, AWS, and database services. Expectations: 3‑month contract, remote, ownership of end‑to‑end infrastructure challenges, high independence, collaboration with product engineers. Key Responsibilities: • Establish a robust, scalable infrastructure foundation. • Build and optimize a CI/CD pipeline from scratch and maintain existing pipelines. • Design for scale on Vercel and serverless platforms. • Implement safe, reliable database migrations, rollbacks, and releases. • Incorporate fallback and fail‑over paths for service outages (e.g., Vercel, OpenAI, AWS Lambda, Anthropic). • Coordinate and conduct security testing, including pentesting. • Apply security and data‑privacy best practices. • Develop infrastructure‑as‑code solutions that product engineers can maintain. • Support the current AWS (backend) and Vercel (frontend) split and simplify Terraform/AWS setups where appropriate. Required Skills: • End‑to‑end infrastructure ownership. • Experience designing maintainable infra for product teams. • Expertise with modern tooling: Vercel, PlanetScale, Langfuse, serverless patterns. • AI/LLM observability and infrastructure knowledge. • Familiarity with IaC tools such as SST, Pulumi, Terraform, or similar. • Strong understanding of CI/CD, database migrations, and rollout strategies. • Security and data‑privacy best‑practice implementation. Required Education & Certifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).

United kingdom

Remote

02-02-2026

Company Name

Christopher Ali

Job Title

Ruby on Rails Developer

Job Description

Job Title: Ruby on Rails Full‑Stack Developer Role Summary: Deliver new features to an existing Ruby on Rails 7 application, enhancing both the front‑end UI and back‑end API layers. Expectations: Remote work, 3‑month contract with potential extension, hourly rate £550 per day, outside IR35. Key Responsibilities: - Design, code, and test new UI components and API endpoints for the Rails 7 app. - Refactor and maintain existing code to improve performance, security, and scalability. - Write automated tests (unit, integration, system) using a test-driven development approach. - Collaborate with product and design teams to translate requirements into technical specifications. - Deploy and manage application updates on a Kubernetes‑based cloud infrastructure. - Monitor application health, troubleshoot issues, and implement continuous improvement practices. Required Skills: - Extensive experience with Ruby on Rails (v7+). - Proven ability to develop end‑to‑end features covering both front‑end (HTML/CSS/JS, or a modern JS framework) and back‑end logic. - Strong test‑driven development skills and familiarity with testing frameworks (RSpec, Capybara, etc.). - Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency). - Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and cloud deployment pipelines (CI/CD). - Good communication, problem‑solving, and collaboration abilities. Required Education & Certifications: - Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience). - No mandatory certifications required; knowledge of Kubernetes or related DevOps tools is a plus.

United kingdom

Remote

12-02-2026