Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer PHP

6 Month Contract, Hybrid or Remote within Ireland

About the Company

My client is a global online marketplace that connects millions of creative entrepreneurs and independent sellers with buyers.. Their platform operates at significant scale, serving tens of millions of buyers and millions of sellers, and driven by a mission to keep human connection at the heart of commerce.

About the Position

The Platform and Experience team is an established squad of 6 engineers. They are looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer to join on a contract basis. This role will be focused on improving the agent tooling and infrastructure that enable the client’s Support Agents to deliver efficient, high-quality, and scalable support. The team is split between US and Ireland.

Responsibilities

• Experienced Full stack engineer with a strong background in PHP
• Experience with FrontEnd frameworks: React, Angular
• Strong debugging skills
• Experience with working with ‘legacy’ code, refactoring and improving existing code is as important as building new code for this role.
• Experience helping to drive and define requirements as much as follow them
• Be comfortable working with design/UX stakeholders and having an interest in UX.
• Experience with performance tuning would be a plus, finding efficiencies in slow areas of the code is very beneficial.
• Enjoy thinking about the implications of your work on end users.
• You are comfortable collaborating with Product Managers and Designers to ensure that you’re delivering impactful product features.
• Have excellent communication skills, and are enthusiastic and forward-looking.

Experience

• 5+ years of professional full-stack development experience, with a strong emphasis on PHP backend development.
• Proven hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React and/or Angular).
• Solid track record of working with and modernising legacy codebases, including refactoring, improving maintainability, and delivering incremental enhancements alongside new feature work.
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex issues across the stack and identify performance bottlenecks, with experience in performance tuning considered a strong plus.
• Experience collaborating closely with Product Managers, Designers/UX stakeholders, and other engineers to help shape requirements, make pragmatic technical suggestions, and deliver impactful features.
• Comfortable operating in a primarily backend-focused role within an established platform/tooling team, while still contributing effectively to frontend work when required.
• Excellent communication skills and a proactive, forward-looking approach to solving problems that ultimately improve the experience for end users.

Remuneration Package

Strong rate between 400-450 per day.

Contact

Please contact Charlie Bigger on 01 5927867 or email c.bigger@brightwater.ie or simply click the apply button.