Full Stack Engineer
Company: Story Terrace Inc.
Location: Manchester
Posted: April 23rd, 2026
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain backend services and APIs using the latest versions of PHP and Laravel
- Develop frontend experiences across React, Next.js and React Native (Expo)
- Work within an AWS environment (EC2, AppRunner, CodePipeline, S3, RDS)
- Collaborate closely with internal Product and Design teams - with clear ownership, strong feedback loops, and real influence on decisions
- Contribute to a clean, modular codebase with a MySQL database at its core
- Review code, share knowledge, and help shape best practices across the team
- Use AI tools in your development workflow (we actively encourage it) while applying sound engineering judgement and QA
What We’re Looking For
- 2x mid-level Full Stack Engineer (around 3+ years commercial experience), ideally with time spent in a startup or scale-up environment
- You may lean slightly backend or frontend, but you’re comfortable working across the stack
- You’ll have commercial experience with our current stack:
- Laravel / PHP (core backend services & APIs)
- React, Next.js and/or React Native
- AWS infrastructure
- MySQL
- You care about code quality, performance and maintainabilityYou’re comfortable using AI tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude, Copilot) as part of your workflow — and know how to review, validate and improve AI-assisted output
- You’re ambitious, proactive and want your work to have visible, real-world impact
- You enjoy working in a close-knit, collaborative engineering team where voices are genuinely heard
- You’re based in (or can commute to) the North West and are happy with our hybrid setup
What we offer
- Salary - Genuinely Market Competitive!! (We’re happy to disclose our benchmarked bandings during the interview process)
- Share Options - The opportunity to gain from Housr’s success with our Share Options scheme (again, we’re happy to discuss during the interview process)
- Holiday - 25 days off, plus bank holidays each year
- Free Gym Membership - Keep fit, with free use of our on-site gym
- Monthly Team Lunches - At the end of each month, we all grab lunch together as a team, and also have the afternoon off to focus on ourselves
- Company socials - A chance to let our hair down as a team. Past socials have ranged from paintball to ping pong tournaments - we’re quite competitive!
- Amazing Central Manchester office space
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