Remote Full Stack Engineer - Football Tech

Ellipse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Remote work option

Company pension scheme

Life assurance

Job summary

Ellipse is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to join our football technology team. You will develop and maintain backend services and databases, building scalable and secure applications across the tech stack.

You will translate business needs into reliable software, design APIs with security in mind, and collaborate on DevOps tasks. The role emphasizes data processing, real-time information handling and delivering high-performing football data platforms.

Qualifications

• 2+ years commercial experience developing backend services in Python (Flask or similar).
• Experience designing and building APIs using FastAPI or equivalent frameworks; API security knowledge.
• Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL.
• Experience with containerised applications.
• Familiarity with cloud deployment and service management, ideally using AWS.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into clear technical specifications and effective software solutions.
• Develop and maintain reliable, scalable and secure applications across the football technology stack.
• Build data processing solutions that collect, aggregate and structure information for efficient searching and analysis.
• Work with relational databases and APIs to support data-driven products and services.
• Collaborate on DevOps activities, including CI/CD pipelines, deployments and release management.
• Contribute to technical improvements, application performance and engineering best practices.

Skills

Python

Flask

API design

SQL

Cloud deployment

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

AWS

Job description

Ellipse is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to join our football technology team. You will develop and maintain backend services and databases, building scalable and secure applications across the tech stack.

You will translate business needs into reliable software, design APIs with security in mind, and collaborate on DevOps tasks. The role emphasizes data processing, real-time information handling and delivering high-performing football data platforms.