Senior Full Stack Developer

Job Title: Senior Full Stack Developer

Hours of Work: 40 hours per week

Department: Football Analytics

Location: Elland Road

Responsible to: Head of Football Analytics

DBS: No

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Friday 25th June 2025

Role Summary

The Football Department at Leeds United is working to leverage data to enhance decision making from analysis and recruitment to performance and medicine. We are looking for individuals who will transform our end users' workflows and decision-making processes through a central football platform.

Role Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Football Data Platform Lead to design and build a new, scalable football intelligence platform.

• Develop and maintain robust backend services (Python, Node, AWS) and elegant, user-friendly frontend applications (React, TypeScript).

• Establish good development practices and contribute to the long-term maintainability of the platform

Other Responsibilities

• To take responsibilities for personal performance and the development of personal skills to ensure the requiredskills, knowledge and competence to fulfil the role.

• Perform duties with due regard to Club policies and procedures and legislative requirements at all times;

• To act as an ambassador for equity and inclusion, openly championing the Clubs commitment and action plan. To recognise and appropriately challenge incidents of racism, bullying, harassment, sexual harassment or victimisation and any form of abuse of equal opportunities, ensuring compliance with relevant policies and procedures

• Ensure implementation of the Club’s health & safety, safeguarding, welfare and equality policies to create a safe working environment for all;

• Undertake continuous professional development (CPD) training and/or additional training as identified or as required.

• Ensure working practices are compliant with relevant legislation and data protection legislation and/or general data protection regulations (GDPR) requirements;

Required Relevant Experience

• 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering.

• Experience delivering projects from concept through to production.

• A track record of building full-stack applications.

Required Technical Skills

• High-level proficiency in TypeScript and React.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS Lambda, S3, EC2, API Gateway, Airflow, Redshift

• Proficiency or willingness to learn Python for backend services and data

• workflows.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and version control systems (e.g., GitHub Actions).

• You have an understanding of Infrastructure as Code (e.g. CloudFormation)