Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

Senior 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 Platform: the squad that builds the shared services, backend infrastructure and payments capability the rest of TFP is built on, including our move off Heroku. 

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 

• Own the design and delivery of Platform features end-to-end: the shared services and payments capability other squads build on. 

• Show strong design judgement on ambiguous problems, and know when a simple solution beats a clever one. 

• Mentor other engineers and raise the quality bar in reviews and design discussions. 

• Help shape our move off Heroku and the architecture of what replaces it. 

🤩 You should apply if 

• you have experience creating products with Ruby 

• you have strong experience of software development

• you're comfortable across the backend stack your squad owns: API layer, database, infrastructure 

• 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 enjoy mentoring and levelling up the engineers around you 

This role does require hands-on Ruby on Rails experience, given its focus on our core backend architecture and payments systems. 

🛠️ 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) 

• 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 

• React Native for our mobile applications 

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

  📈 Level & career progression 

We're hiring at IC3 (Senior Engineer) on our engineering career ladder. Scope: a squad. You'll handle ambiguous, open-ended technical problems and be a technical anchor for the team. 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.