full stack developer for sports platforms

Other Media is a digital agency focused on transforming the sports industry through data-driven strategy, fan-centric design, and engineering. It builds and maintains web platforms, apps, and ecosystem integrations for sports clubs, governing bodies, and venues.

• Maintain and improve existing backend services;
• Maintain and improve first-party analytics and data pipelines, ensuring new features integrate with them;
• Work with specialist Drupal, Magento, Frontend, iOS, and Android teams to gather API contract and functionality requirements;
• Design and implement scalable and resilient Symfony microservice-style backend features from requirements analysis through delivery;
• Participate in team code reviews and review code from other teams;
• Lead end-to-end testing to ensure high-quality delivery;
• Implement and maintain Drupal features and integration modules;
• Maintain automated test, lint, and static analysis pipelines in GitHub Actions;
• Maintain and own secure deployment processes;
• Assist the operations team with daily monitoring to identify issues early;
• Provide out-of-hours on-call support on a rotational basis.

• Excellent PHP skills;
• Excellent Symfony v7+ knowledge and experience;
• Excellent knowledge of Symfony components and design patterns, including Service Container, Dependency Injection, Cache, Service Locators, Compiler Passes, Bundles, Console, Serializer, and Validator;
• Excellent knowledge and experience with AWS services, including SQS, Step Functions, Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, and Lambda;
• Experience developing event-driven applications and shared PubSub pipelines;
• Experience with Serverless Framework or similar;
• Excellent SQL knowledge, especially optimization and indexes;
• Experience designing well-documented internal API contracts;
• Experience with OpenSearch querying;
• Experience with GitHub Actions and either Claude or Copilot CLI;
• Excellent problem-solving skills;
• Experience with Git, GitHub, and code review practices;
• Excellent security awareness and knowledge of OWASP;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Excellent Bash and/or Zsh scripting skills;
• Experience with JavaScript, React, Babel, and Webpack;
• Nice to have: experience setting up and maintaining secure LEMP hosting and configuring Varnish, Redis, and/or Memcache.

• 25 Days of holiday;
• The last Friday of every month off as a discretionary work/life balance day when there is no Bank Holiday in the month;
• Comprehensive onboarding and induction;
• Regular career planning;
• Pension scheme;
• Salaries are competitive and according to experience.