Full Stack Software Engineer in Wakefield

Location: Hybrid, with a preference for candidates who can travel to our Wakefield, West Yorkshire HQ

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £40,000 - £50,000

Build technology that transforms the live drinks experience. Boxbar Tech creates award-winning self-service drinks technology used across stadiums, festivals, arenas and hospitality venues around the world. Our platform brings together custom hardware, Android applications, cloud services, payments and management software to help our partners serve customers faster, reduce queues and operate more efficiently.

We’re growing our engineering team and looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer who enjoys solving real-world problems, working across a varied technology stack and taking ownership of products from concept through to deployment.

The opportunity

This is a hands-on role covering both frontend and backend development, with opportunities to contribute to Android applications, cloud infrastructure, hardware integrations and emerging AI projects. You’ll work closely with colleagues across engineering, product, operations and customer success to design, build and improve customer-facing products, internal tools and backend services. As part of a small, collaborative engineering team, you’ll have plenty of autonomy and the opportunity to make a visible impact. One week you could be developing a new React feature; the next, building a backend service, integrating a payment provider or improving how we remotely manage devices deployed across major venues. This role would suit someone who enjoys variety, takes ownership of their work and wants to help shape the technology behind a growing international business.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing, developing and maintaining modern frontend applications
• Building and maintaining backend APIs and services
• Taking new product features from initial concept through to deployment
• Integrating third-party APIs, payment providers and hardware
• Creating scalable, reliable and maintainable software solutions
• Writing clean, well-tested and maintainable code
• Participating in code reviews and technical discussions
• Troubleshooting and resolving production issues
• Improving system performance, reliability and security
• Collaborating with engineering colleagues and the wider business

What we’re looking for

You’ll ideally have at least three years of commercial software development experience and a strong grounding in modern software engineering. Experience across most of the following would be particularly relevant:

• JavaScript and TypeScript
• React or another modern frontend framework
• Node.js backend development
• REST API design and development
• SQL databases
• HTML5 and CSS3
• Git
• Object-oriented programming
• Testing, debugging and problem-solving
• Clear and confident communication

You don’t need to tick every box. Strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity and the ability to learn quickly are more important than experience with every part of our stack. It would be great if you also have experience with:

• AWS
• PostgreSQL
• Docker
• AWS Lambda or other serverless technologies
• Firebase
• CI/CD pipelines
• GitHub Actions
• Android development using Kotlin or Java
• Python
• Infrastructure as code
• Linux
• OAuth
• JWT
• Applications security
• Websockets
• Payment integrations
• Microservices

Our current technology stack includes a variety of tools and frameworks that support our mission to deliver exceptional service and innovation.