Lead Software Engineer (Clubhouse)

Lead Software Engineer 

📍 Belfast (Hybrid)  |  💰 Competitive salary + benefits 

TeamFeePay (TFP) is one of the biggest grassroots football club management platforms in the UK. We support over 2,000 football clubs and 250,000+ coaches, players, parents and guardians on the platform, and we’re now expanding into Italy, Spain and the rest of Europe. We’re a scale-up growing rapidly, and engineering is core to that growth. 

⭐ About our Engineering Team 

We're organised into three squads: Pitchside Experience, Clubhouse Experience and Platform. This role sits in Clubhouse Experience: the squad focused on club administration- the tools club admins and committees use to run their club day-to-day. 

Our engineers come from a variety of different backgrounds. As long as you enjoy learning new things, we'd love to talk to you: we do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles. 

🔑 Your day-to-day 

• Set technical direction for Clubhouse Experience, and align other engineers around a shared plan, without needing to review or write every line yourself. 

• Act as a force-multiplier: find the highest-leverage problem across the squad and land it through and with other engineers. 

• Move fluidly across our Rails API, Postgres data layer, React web app and React Native app to unblock the squad wherever the constraint is. 

• Mentor senior engineers and grow the technical bench within Clubhouse Experience and beyond. 

🤩 You should apply if 

• you have experience being the tech lead of a squad 

• you're full-stack (preferred), but we care more about your track record leading technical direction than any one stack 

• you have strong experience in software development  

• you're comfortable making architecture calls other engineers will build on for years 

• you enjoy the cross-team alignment work: writing the docs and having the conversations that get a squad pointed the same way 

• you have a product mindset: you're comfortable critiquing designs and understanding user journeys to help land on the best solution, not just implementing what's handed to you 

• you want to help shape how club admins and committees experience TFP 

You don't need prior Ruby experience to apply. If you're a strong backend engineer with experience in another language (e.g. Node, Python, Java, PHP, Go), we'd love to hear from you: we'll support you in picking up Rails. (Our Platform Senior Software Engineer and Principal Software Engineer roles are the exception and do require hands-on Ruby/Rails experience.) 

🛠️ What you'll be working on 

We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies: 

• Ruby on Rails to write our API layer (there’s a highly recommended Rails tutorial here) 

• We’re moving to React for our web front end, but we’re currently using Rails with Turbo, Hotwire and Stimulus 

• React Native for our mobile applications 

• Postgres for our database layer 

• Stripe to power payments: membership fees, club shop and fundraising all run through it 

• Currently our infrastructure is on Heroku, but we’ll be moving off this soon: join us and help shape where 

📈 Level & career progression 

We're hiring at IC4 (Lead Engineer) on our engineering career ladder. Scope: multiple teams / a domain. You'll hold the technical lead role for a squad, setting direction with no direct reports or people-management authority. We interview across the whole framework, so if you're not sure exactly what level fits, talk to your recruiter and we'll figure it out together.