Water Direct is the UK’s leading provider of alternative water supplies, delivering emergency and planned services to water utility companies, commercial organisations, and critical infrastructure nationwide. In 2024, we began a strategic investment in technology to improve service delivery, transparency, and operational efficiency — building a new digital platform to manage our operations and create the foundation for growth into new services and markets.

Our Product Vision

We are building the Water Direct Platform – a web and mobile platform that connects our clients, operations team, assets, drivers, and 3rd party contractors. This will transform a historically manual, phone-and-spreadsheet based process of managing water outages into a transparent, efficient, and scalable system — improving outcomes for households and businesses across the UK.

The Team

We operate a lean, highly capable product and engineering team led by our CPO and Engineering Lead — both ex-Googlers who previously scaled a SaaS product from inception to acquisition. Our core technology stack is Python / Django (backend) with HTML/HTMLX/React (web) and Flutter (mobile), supported by a modern cloud-native toolchain for CI/CD, monitoring, and data. As we move beyond core operations, we are increasingly exploring automation, data-driven decisioning, and AI-enabled workflows.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Developer to play a key role in building and scaling the Water Direct platform. This is a hands-on, delivery focused contract role suited to someone comfortable working remotely as part of a distributed international team.

We are looking for someone who is:

• A full-stack senior engineer with minimum 5+ years' experience of Python / Django

• Experience building modern web applications

• Experienced designing and maintaining scalable, well-structured APIs

• Comfortable taking ownership of features from concept to production

• Able to work autonomously in a hybrid, async-friendly environment

• Pragmatic and delivery-focused, with strong commercial awareness

• Comfortable collaborating and supporting Engineering leadership to tactically accelerate feature development

• Proactive in improving code quality, architecture, and developer experience

• Happy mentoring and directing other engineers and contributing to technical direction

• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, real-world operational environment

Logistics and Remuneration: