Full Stack Engineer

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Full Stack Developer to work alongside our tech team, General Manager, and commercial colleagues. Playfinder is in a critical phase in its growth; this role is pivotal to ensure we can meet the needs of an ever-evolving and expanding market., * Backend Ownership: Building new features and maintaining our tech stack.

• Collaboration: Providing technical feasibility advice to the product working group and supporting the Frontend Developer with robust API contracts.
• Infrastructure & Security: Owning our releases, managing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring system security.

• Infrastructure & DevOps: Owning our release management, security, and infrastructure (Terraform/Ansible).
• Front-End Support: Collaborating with our dedicated Frontend Dev using Angular, TypeScript, and SCSS.
• Engineering Quality: A commitment to TDD, SOLID principles, and clear technical documentation.

Why join? You will be the primary technical owner of our backend and infrastructure. Whether you are a strong Mid-level dev looking for more autonomy or a Senior looking to lead architectural decisions, you will play a pivotal role in our next two years of strategic growth., * As a Mid-level candidate: You are a confident and talented coder eager to learn from our leadership team and help shape strategic direction while maintaining a robust PHP/Angular stack.

• As a Senior candidate: You bring architectural thinking, a passion for mentoring, experience in end-to-end delivery, and the ability to influence our technical roadmap., * Backend: Expert-level modern PHP (8.2+), Symfony (6.4+), and REST API design.
• Front-End: Modern Angular development (Components/State Management), TypeScript, and SCSS.
• Documentation: Proficient in consuming, interpreting, and maintaining technical documentation.
• DevOps & Tools: Experience with (or a strong desire to own) infrastructure as code (Terraform/Ansible), release management, and security best practices.
• Data: Knowledge of SQL, Redis, and performance optimisation.
• Frontend: Capable of working within Angular components when required.
• Quality: Demonstrated understanding of SOLID, DRY, TDD, and technical documentation.
• Process: Familiarity with Scrum/Agile and navigating trade-offs in complex systems.

Bonus Experience:

• Elasticsearch queries, API Platform, and Server Side Rendering (SSR).
• Familiarity with AWS or GCP would be a plus

Package: £45k-£70k (Subject to experience) + Share Option Scheme + 25 Days Holiday + B'day Off

Playfinder is a consumer sports marketplace and SaaS booking software scale-up based in Central London. We want to transform access to sport globally and our mission is to provide the best sports booking software and experience. We do this by providing high quality customer experiences on our search and booking marketplace, Playfinder, that has given over 1 million players access to pitches and courts for over 20 sports through our software annually. Alongside this, we enable self-service access and operations for facility operators and activity providers through our booking software, Bookteq. Together, our products drive increased utilisation of sports facilities, additional income for operators, and greater social impact in local communities, enabling more people in more places to play sports. Our Core Values; we are... Mission-Driven - We're different to other companies because of our dedication to improve the lives of both operators and players, and we carry this burden by striving to provide the best technology and customer experience to both sides of the experience. Change-Makers - We want people who won't accept the status quo, but who find a way to improve how something is done, repeatedly. Change making is about having the guts and ambition to bring about positive change. Specialists - Our people strive to be specialists in their field, to take accountability and, coupled with a passion to learn, do what they do better than anyone else.