Full Stack Software Engineer

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The role

Job Title: Full Stack Software Engineer
Salary Range: £50k - £60k
Department: Engineering
Location: Marlow, UK

Who we are

We're a SaaS company developing tools that help brands run impactful B2B events. Our suite of connected web and mobile apps enables event managers and sales teams to engage effectively with customers at tradeshows and conferences worldwide.

There are currently 4 core products in the suite:

VX - A hybrid event and community platform. VX is a Swiss army knife bringing live streaming, video calling, whiteboarding, immersive 3D experiences, rich media, and gamification all under one platform that is highly brandable and integrates efficiently.

VX App - A branded community app on Android and iOS that attendees can use to get notifications direct to their phones, network with other attendees and explore all the events available to them.

Sync - Smarter, simpler, more efficient scheduling and communications for events. Manage meetings, spaces, transport, travel, breakouts, workshops and speaker slots for global sales teams, conferences and internal events.

RSVP - Simple event registration and ticketing for events. Send branded invitations to your contact lists, track registrations, manage waitlists, build modular registration pages. Full e-commerce solution with coupons, conditional discounts, packages and integrations with leading payment gateways.

We have an impressive roster of clients and users around the world including large blue chip organizations, creative agencies and SMEs across multiple sectors from media to technology, finance and aerospace. We are a growing team with a truly global reach.

We offer a competitive package dependent on skills and experience.

Innovation is in our DNA - we are dedicated to designing the tools of tomorrow.

Our Culture - Dynamic Creative Positive The role

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our development processes, fostering innovation, and contributing to the overall success of our projects. You will collaborate closely with all team members and have a significant impact on the design, development, and deployment of our web and app solutions. The ideal candidate will possess a good understanding of mobile, backend and frontend technologies, strong problem solving skills, and a passion for delivering high quality software.

Our apps are used by a diverse set of global brands across aerospace, gaming, tech and media at events around the world. These include Disney, BBC Studios, Bombardier, Airbus, 10X Genomics, Collins Aerospace and many more. We believe that it's vital for our engineers to have a customer centric mindset, and you will be encouraged to interact directly with stakeholders from these top brands as we support and grow their usage.

You will be part of a high performing, rapidly evolving team. We are entering a new phase of growth, supercharged by an experienced team, significant investment and a clear vision. We are constantly learning and adapting.

Your creativity and enthusiasm to learn and develop are what fuels you. Our HQ is outside of London, an easy commute from the centre just on the river Thames. We have a flexible working policy, allowing team members to define how many days are spent in the HQ and from home. We have a fun and diverse office, and there is opportunity to travel around the world to the events we run to support live deployments and maintain/support during events and shows alongside PM/production teams from our partner agencies.

You will report to the Head of Engineering.

The tech stack Responsibilities

• Implement backend services and APIs to support our applications.
• Participate in frontend site architecture and development.
• Adhere to coding standards and conduct code reviews.
• Contribute to testing with unit, integration, end to end and load tests.
• Maintain and implement CI/CD pipelines to support our mobile apps, web apps, and DevOps infrastructure.
• Engage in architectural discussions, propose technical solutions, and stay abreast of industry trends.
• Effectively communicate complex solutions to non-technical stakeholders and maintain documentation.
• Ensure solutions are GDPR compliant and adhere to cybersecurity best practices.

Skill set

• Proficiency in Django, Flask, and Flutter: Strong experience in these frameworks is essential for mobile, backend and frontend development.
• Familiarity with Cloud platforms, particularly AWS with services like EC2, ECS, and RDS.
• Confident with Docker and Shell/Bash scripting.
• Good understanding of Git and branching strategies.
• Strong understanding of software testing principles, including unit testing, integration testing, and end to end testing, and experience with testing frameworks like K6 and Cypress.
• CI/CD and DevOps: Good understanding of DevOps principles and experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably using tools like CircleCI and yaml.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. Alternatively, we will consider candidates with equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience in building mobile and web applications.
• Database Management: Experience with databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis, including database design, optimization, and ORM.
• Collaboration tools: Knowledge and experience with like Jira and Confluence or similar.
• Prior experience in the Event industry or related domain.

Onboarding

• Meet others in the development team and digital side of the business, and learn the nuts and bolts of Gther, our history, and where we're going
• Dive into our technology by pair programming with your teammates
• Learn our tech stack and apply development patterns through your work
• Participate in our product development process by helping to break tickets into tasks and estimate effort
• Make recommendations for additional test scripts, refactoring, profiling, and optimisation
• Write internal documentation for your features and systems, so other engineers and stakeholders are bought into your decisions.
• Ship your first features to customers!
• Reliably ship full features to the product
• Understand the product at scale and be able to provide input to improve our technical systems and tools
• Participate in interviewing and hiring, influence team growth and understand how our values inform our culture
• Build, launch, and support your first big features
• Have made a visible impact on the product for all the users of the gther platform
• Be comfortable navigating our stack and infrastructure
• Participate in the planning, scoping, design, and implementation of new features
• Influence and guide on technical architecture and key development decisions

Your approach

You thrive in a fast moving, startup environment where clarity and collaboration matter. You're proactive, hands on, and comfortable wearing multiple hats in a small team. You scope work realistically, communicate priorities clearly, and stay calm under pressure.

You work well across disciplines, building trust with product, design, and commercial teams alike. You lead with curiosity, humility, and empathy, creating space for others to contribute while knowing when to step in with direction. You're a strong communicator who values clean handoffs, shared goals, and thoughtful feedback.

You're delivery minded and understand how to balance speed with quality. You're comfortable managing trade offs, hitting milestones, and driving progress without compromising long term maintainability.

You're resilient, reflective, and continuously learning, quick to adapt, open to being challenged, and always looking to level up yourself and the rest of the team.