Lead Software Engineer (Clubhouse) • Belfast, County Down, GB
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.
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Qualifications
- 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.
- 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.
What’s in it for you
- Competitive salary + benefits
- Belfast tech hub, hybrid working, right beside the Titanic Museum
- Free car parking and office snacks
- Access to the latest and greatest AI models to help you get your work done faster
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