TeamFeePay
Lead Software Engineer (Clubhouse)
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Job Description
Location: The Innovation Center, Catalyst, Queens Rd, Belfast BT3 9DT, United Kingdom
Lead 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 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.
Your day-to-day
- 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.
You should apply if
- 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.
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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
- 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
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.
How We Work
Our main tech hub is in Belfast. We value meeting in person, but we don't have a mandated requirement on office attendance: we trust you and your squad to find the working pattern that gets the best outcomes.
About The Role
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
- ⏰ Flexible working Hours
- 🤖 Access to the latest and greatest AI models to help you get your work done faster
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Interview process
Our Interview Process Involves
- 15 min screening call with our talent team
- 45 min interview with our CTO, Steve
- 45 min interview with our CPO, James
- Take-home task or pair coding exercise
Skills Needed
About The Company
At TeamFeePay, we were founded with a clear mission — to make life easier for grassroots football clubs.
Established in 2018 and headquartered in Belfast, we’ve grown into a leading club management and development platform used by thousands of clubs across the UK, Ireland and Europe.
Our software enables clubs to automate membership payments, player registrations, scheduling, safeguarding and communications, while also supporting fundraising and long-term development.
We go beyond technology by offering club development expertise, helping organisations improve governance, increase revenue and access funding opportunities.
As a fast-growing scale-up backed by investment, we are continuing to expand our reach — creating opportunities for ambitious people to join us on our journey.
Company Culture
Our culture is driven by a shared passion for football, innovation and teamwork.
We are a team of people who live and breathe the game — from coaches and players to developers and customer success specialists.
At TeamFeePay, we value collaboration, creativity and ownership, encouraging everyone to contribute ideas and take pride in their work.
As a growing tech company, we offer a dynamic and fast-paced environment where individuals can make a real impact.
We support continuous learning and encourage our team to develop both professionally and personally, all while working towards a shared goal of improving grassroots football.
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Closing Date: Friday 28th August, 2026
Contract Type: fulltime
Salary: Based on Experience
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