Frontend Engineer

• Set and uphold high standards for frontend code quality, maintainability, and performance across the Sportsbook and Revenue Product domains.
• Operate as a floating principal resource, contributing to multiple teams and systems, and helping shape and clean up frontend architecture across the organisation.
• Drive frontend development on core sportsbook features including bet content presentation, sports data and odds display, push pricing, and Cloudflare-based publishing workflows.
• Actively adopt and champion AI tooling to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and move faster — this is a non-negotiable part of how we work going forward.
• Guide and uplift junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing. Raise the bar for frontend engineering across teams.
• Take full ownership of your area of focus — from scoping to shipping — covering all aspects of your project and delivering across different systems and domains.
• Contribute to and enforce frontend architectural decisions, component standards, and engineering best practices across teams.
• Build fast, responsive, accessible applications optimised for high-traffic, high-volume environments — including users on low-end devices and constrained infrastructure.
• Work seamlessly with backend engineers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to deliver integrated, high-quality solutions.
• Implement automated testing strategies to ensure robust, bug-free releases across systems.
• Be part of on-call rotations for critical systems, with a focus on root-cause prevention, not firefighting.

Principal Front End Software Engineer

Backend Engineer

• Architect the future: design, implement, and evolve distributed systems that handle high throughput and millions of concurrent transactions.
• Provide technical leadership: act as a go-to expert for backend and infrastructure topics, mentoring teams and raising the overall engineering bar.
• Optimize performance: identify bottlenecks and design scalable solutions that improve availability, latency, and cost efficiency.
• Drive reliability: establish solid standards for monitoring, alerting, and incident management, ensuring our systems are observable and resilient.
• Collaborate across teams: partner with product and business leaders to translate ideas into clear technical strategies and execution plans.
• Improve continuously: challenge existing solutions, propose better patterns, and keep us aligned with modern practices in distributed systems and DevOps.
• Lead by example: write clean, maintainable code; review peers’ work; and ensure consistent engineering quality across services.
• Be part of on-call rotations for critical systems, focusing on root-cause prevention, not firefighting.

Principal Backend Software Engineer, Customer

• Own the full lifecycle of all client websites, including development, hosting, and maintenance.
• Build and maintain websites across Webflow, WordPress, and other CMS platforms.
• Respond quickly to website issues, downtime, and technical support requests.
• Optimise website performance, security, and user experience.
• Collaborate with the marketing team to build high-converting landing pages.
• Recommend and implement new tools, plugins, and AI solutions to improve delivery.

Full-Stack Web Developer

Full-stack Engineer

• Design and maintain backend and full-stack features using Supabase and TypeScript stack
• Work across both greenfield and existing brownfield systems
• Manage end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Implement authentication via Microsoft Entra ID
• Utilize Claude Code as a core tool to accelerate delivery and maintain code quality
• Coordinate with EU-based stakeholders and engineers

Senior Software Engineer

• Design and maintain backend and full-stack features using Supabase and TypeScript stack
• Manage end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Implement authentication via Microsoft Entra ID
• Contribute to technical decision-making and engineering processes

Software Developer, SQL, TypeScript, Claude Code

• Build and own backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and Python—designed for scale, reliability, and real-time use.
• Use AI tools (Amazon Q, Cursor, Copilot, Claude, GPT) to accelerate development, refactoring, and problem-solving.
• Turn product ideas into production-ready systems quickly, without compromising quality.
• Integrate AI capabilities (LLMs, RAG, vector search) into backend workflows where they add real value.
• Act as the final filter for AI-generated code—identify flaws, inefficiencies, and incorrect assumptions before they ship.
• Design clean APIs, handle distributed system challenges, and ensure performance at scale.
• Write and validate tests to keep fast-moving systems stable.
• Debug production issues and take full ownership of reliability and performance.

Senior Backend Developer, AI

Software Engineer

• Manage and maintain the company's Joomla websites and hosting environment.
• Proactively manage Joomla CMS migrations and updates.
• Monitor and maintain plugin updates and compatibility.
• Identify and respond to security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Manage cPanel hosting environments.
• Perform PHP version migrations where required.
• Support the design, development, and build of websites.

Joomla Developer, Hosting Manager

• Architect and scale our GTM systems across sales, marketing, and product
• Lead development of AI agents and workflows that automate key parts of the funnel
• Orchestrate tools like Salesforce and HubSpot into a unified system
• Turn product and user data into actionable growth signals
• Build intelligent workflows (lead scoring, routing, outbound triggers, onboarding flows)
• Define how AI is used across the entire customer lifecycle
• Identify bottlenecks and design systems to remove them
• Partner closely with founders on growth strategy, experiments, and priorities

GTM Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications using .NET Core, C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.
• Build and optimize cloud-native solutions using Microsoft Azure services such as Azure App Services, Azure Functions, and AKS.
• Develop and maintain front-end components using modern frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Ensure high standards of code quality, security, and performance, following SOLID principles, OWASP standards, and Agile methodologies.
• Implement and support CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, with a strong focus on automation and testing.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to enable smooth deployments and effective cloud infrastructure management.
• Participate in code reviews, providing guidance and mentorship to junior developers.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize applications to improve scalability and performance.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation for ongoing development and support.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to improve development practices continuously.

Full Stack Software Developer

• Building and improving customer-facing features across a large, established PHP/Symfony web application backed by MySQL
• Developing new UI components and views in React/TypeScript
• Exposing new data and reporting through portal pages, reporting views, and API layers
• Integrating third-party services via their APIs and SDKs, and maintaining clean abstraction layers
• Enhancing and extending the existing PHP API layer to support new platform features
• Full-stack delivery across backend and frontend, picking up whatever the backlog needs

Senior Full-Stack Developer, PHP

• Develop and maintain software solutions for the online gaming platform
• Collaborate with users and stakeholders to gather requirements
• Design software components and architecture
• Automate processes and improve system efficiency
• Assist in mentoring junior software engineers

Senior Software Engineer, iOS

• Lead the end-to-end design, development, and maintenance of web applications, ensuring they meet high standards for functionality, performance, and user experience.
• Create responsive and user-friendly interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Manage server-side development, including the selection and use of programming languages and frameworks like Node.js, Python, Ruby, Django, etc.
• Design, optimize, and manage database schemas, queries, and interactions using relational and NoSQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Drive architectural decisions, system design, and code reviews to ensure scalable and maintainable software solutions.
• Establish testing strategies, develop unit tests, and provide expertise in debugging and optimizing code for performance and reliability.
• Work on integrating APIs and third-party services, focusing on security, scalability, and efficiency.
• Implement DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud services to optimize application deployment and scaling.
• Mentor and collaborate with junior and intermediate developers, contributing to team growth, knowledge sharing, and best practices.

Senior Software Engineer – Web

• Developing and enhancing features for real-time embedded system.
• Developing communications protocol drivers for use in our embedded system and third-party products.
• Developing and enhancing network communication mechanisms.
• Porting existing software to new embedded hardware and software platforms.
• Designing and implementing software development and test tools.

Staff Engineer

• Assist instructors with grading assignments and coursework
• Maintain regular communication with assigned faculty
• Monitor student performance and communicate concerns to the instructor
• Stay current on course materials, schedules, and classroom activities
• Record and track relevant student progress information
• Serve as a positive representative of Grand Canyon University by supporting the University’s Mission, Doctrinal Statement, and Ethical Position Statement

Grading Assistant – Computer Aided Design

• Contribute across a modern full stack environment, working with React, .NET, Python, and SQL Server within a structured monorepo.
• Design and build features across the application.
• Maintain architectural standards.
• Ensure performance and reliability at scale.
• Contribute to CI/CD and deployment processes where needed.
• Emphasis on code quality, consistency, and long term maintainability.

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

• Work closely with the rest of the engineering team to deliver solutions ranging from small-scale client assistance to stack-spanning alterations that enable huge new features.
• Work with the support and operations teams to understand large client problems from first principles and propose new solutions.
• Gain a holistic understanding of the Lessonspace stack, infrastructure and internal development environment, as well as how our customers use us, with an eye to becoming a potent source of internal systems knowledge for other engineers and teams to depend on.
• Be able to take full ownership of your feature releases, testing and reliability, ultimately delivering major releases with confidence and minimal assistance.
• You will be working at the nexus of engineering, sales and operations and may be engaged to deliver specific features to help larger customers onboard smoothly onto our platform.

Senior Backend Engineer

• Working across the MagicOrange Tech stack, develop performant, robust, secure and maintainable software solutions using modern, industry-standard best practices and principles.
• Within a team environment, proactively analyze , clarify, code and unit test software, including features, defects and refactoring
• Review existing delivery dates and work requirements with current knowledge set, analyze possible alternatives and communicate options and their affects , both technical and upon delivery date
• Participate in code reviews, both of your own code and as a reviewer
• Participate in project teams to create working software
• Record and report status in an agile environment
• Contribute ideas to planning, refinement and estimation and occasionally mentor other engineers
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing for delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Design, build, and maintain AI agentic systems: orchestrate multi-step autonomous workflows, integrate LLMs via API, and implement tool-use, memory, and reasoning patterns that solve real business problems.
• Apply prompt engineering best practices, evaluate and iterate on model outputs, and embed responsible-AI principles including safety guardrails, output validation, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
• Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI landscape, evaluating new models, frameworks, and agentic patterns, and champion their adoption where they deliver measurable product or operational value.

Senior Software Developer

• Execute all core responsibilities professionally and to a consistently high standard
• Manage your workload effectively and meet all agreed targets and deadlines
• Communicate proactively and clearly with internal teams and external stakeholders
• Maintain accurate records and documentation in all systems
• Contribute to team improvement initiatives and best practice sharing
• Represent the organisation professionally at all times

• Design, build, and maintain mobile applications and backend services
• Develop and integrate RESTful APIs to support mobile-first functionality
• Contribute to system architecture and technical design decisions
• Translate business and operational requirements into scalable solutions
• Collaborate closely with product owners, operations teams, and leadership
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues across the full stack
• Provide accurate timelines and estimates for development work
• Maintain clear documentation for systems and processes
• Continuously improve tools, systems, and workflows
• Support broader IT and systems initiatives as the platform evolves

Mobile Full Stack Developer

• Build and maintain RESTful API endpoints using Python and Flask, contributing to business logic for BOQ processing and user management
• Assist in integrating third-party and AI-driven APIs, including working with the Anthropic Claude API that powers the platform’s computational pricing engine
• Develop and maintain responsive user interfaces using React, ensuring a polished experience across devices
• Contribute to document processing pipelines handling PDF, Excel, and Word files for BOQ uploads and report exports
• Write clean queries and support schema work using SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL under senior guidance
• Write tested, well-documented code and participate in code reviews and sprint planning
• Support CI/CD workflows, containerisation, and deployment tasks as you grow into the role

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Full-Stack Web Developer

Senior Software Engineer

Software Developer, SQL, TypeScript, Claude Code

Senior Backend Developer, AI

Joomla Developer, Hosting Manager

GTM Engineer

Full Stack Software Developer

Senior Full-Stack Developer, PHP

Senior Software Engineer, iOS

Senior Software Engineer – Web

Staff Engineer

Grading Assistant – Computer Aided Design

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Software Developer

Senior Software Developer

Mobile Full Stack Developer

Junior Full-Stack Developer