Full Stack Engineer

Story Terrace Inc.; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing tech company in Manchester is seeking a Full Stack Engineer to contribute to scaling their platform and launching new revenue streams. The role requires 3+ years of commercial experience and proficiency in PHP, Laravel, and AWS. You'll work closely with Product and Design teams in a collaborative environment, with opportunities for growth and innovation. The company offers competitive salaries, hybrid work arrangements, and various employee perks to foster a positive workplace culture.

Benefits

Market Competitive Salary

Share Options

25 Days Holiday Plus Bank Holidays

Free Gym Membership

Monthly Team Lunches

Company Socials

Amazing Office Space in Central Manchester

Hybrid Work Policy

Qualifications

• 3+ years commercial experience in a startup or scale-up environment.
• Experience with PHP, Laravel, React, Next.js, or React Native.
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Develop frontend experiences using React and Next.js.
• Collaborate with Product and Design teams to align on goals.

Skills

Laravel / PHP

React

AWS

MySQL

Frontend Development

Backend Development

Job description

Who are we

Housr is a fast-growing, well backed Series A tech company on a mission to radically improve the student rental experience across the globe.

The company was founded after co-founders Harry and Ben experienced first‑hand how broken, stressful and outdated student renting felt while at university and decided there had to be a better way. Since then, Housr has grown rapidly across the UK and the US, partnering with leading colleges and operators to create a fairer, simpler and more transparent rental journey for students and parents alike.

We now operate across our 3 offices - Manchester, Chicago and New York.

In 2025, Housr hit $10m ARR before raising a $10m Series A, giving us the runway and ambition to scale rapidly!

Today, we’re a close‑knit global team of ~45 people (plus a large student brand ambassador network), with engineering at the heart of everything we build. Under the leadership of our Founders, Harry Neil Panter and Ben Clayton, the focus is clear: move fast, build with purpose, and make a genuine impact on student lives.

This is a pivotal moment to join - we’re looking to double the engineering team and enter the most ambitious product phase in Housr’s history.

What You’ll Do

As a Full Stack Engineer, you’ll be a core contributor as we scale our platform, launch new revenue streams, and deepen the value we offer students, parents and partners.

Day to day, you’ll:

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs using the latest versions of PHP and Laravel
• Develop frontend experiences across React, Next.js and React Native (Expo)
• Work within an AWS environment (EC2, AppRunner, CodePipeline, S3, RDS)
• Collaborate closely with internal Product and Design teams - with clear ownership, strong feedback loops, and real influence on decisions
• Contribute to a clean, modular codebase with a MySQL database at its core
• Review code, share knowledge, and help shape best practices across the team
• Use AI tools in your development workflow (we actively encourage it) while applying sound engineering judgement and QA

Work is planned collaboratively by Product and Engineering, ensuring the team is aligned, focused, and shipping meaningful improvements every sprint.

What We’re Looking For

• 2x mid-level Full Stack Engineer s (around 3+ years commercial experience), ideally with time spent in a startup or scale‑up environment
• You may lean slightly backend or frontend, but you’re comfortable working across the stack
• You’ll have commercial experience with our current stack:
• • Laravel / PHP (core backend services & APIs)
  • React, Next.js and/or React Native
  • AWS infrastructure
  • MySQL
• You care about code quality, performance and maintainability. You’re comfortable using AI tools (e.g. Cursor, Claude, Copilot) as part of your workflow — and know how to review, validate and improve AI‑assisted output
• You’re ambitious, proactive and want your work to have visible, real‑world impact
• You enjoy working in a close‑knit, collaborative engineering team where voices are genuinely heard
• You’re based in (or can commute to) the North West and are happy with our hybrid setup

💸What we offer

• Salary - Genuinely Market Competitive!! (We’re happy to disclose our benchmarked bandings during the interview process)
• Share Options - The opportunity to gain from Housr’s success with our Share Options scheme (again, we’re happy to discuss during the interview process)
• Holiday - 25 days off, plus bank holidays each year
• Free Gym Membership - Keep fit, with free use of our on‑site gym
• Monthly Team Lunches - At the end of each month, we all grab lunch together as a team, and also have the afternoon off to focus on ourselves
• Company socials - A chance to let our hair down as a team. Past socials have ranged from paintball to ping pong tournaments - we’re quite competitive!
• Amazing Central Manchester office space
• Hybrid Work Policy – We’re big advocates of in‑person collaboration. We’re in the office four days a week, with Thursday as a team‑wide work from home day.

📝Interview Process

• First Stage - Exploratory call with our Talent Partner to discuss your experience and go through any initial questions (30 mins)
• Second Stage - Informal video call with one of Senior Developers - learn what it's like to be a Engineer at Housr (30 mins)
• Third Stage - Remote hiring task to evaluate key skills for the role
• Fourth Stage - A single F2F interview split into two parts:
• • Part 1 - A chance for us to chat through your task (what went well, what you’ll improve with more time etc) (30 mins)
  • Part 2 - Wider ranging questions about your experiences and motivations for working at Housr, approaches to certain scenarios, working style and what you’ll bring to this role (30 mins)
• Offer - If we think it’s a good fit, we’ll make you an offer! 🎉