Full-Stack Engineer

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur is an iconic English football club, playing in the Premier League and Women’s Super League. From North London to the world, our fanbase spans continents, cultures, and generations. Spurs is a club that’s always dared to push boundaries, breaking new ground and rewriting history. We offer world‑class facilities: In 2019, we opened our state‑of‑the‑art Stadium, a £1 billion landmark that’s the beating heart of North Tottenham’s transformation. More than just a football ground, it’s an engine of change — creating 4,000 jobs and injecting £300 million into the local economy every year.

As a Full‑Stack Engineer, you will play a key role in building the internal applications that power our football operation. You will join a dynamic, newly formed Football Systems team embedded within our Football Insights department, working on data‑heavy tools used daily by analysts, scouts, coaches, the medical team and football leadership. Your job is to build the software that makes complex data usable to influence crucial decisions in all departments of the club. The department’s mission is to understand football better than our rivals and turn that understanding into decisions that win matches and trophies by building and maintaining a single source of truth, developing innovative quantitative models, and delivering tools and processes that embed timely, actionable insight into the Club’s critical football decisions.

This is a remote‑first role based in Europe, at one of the world’s most prominent football clubs. We trust you to do great work and we care about output, not attendance. You will be the only Full‑Stack Engineer in the team, which means a high degree of autonomy over technical decisions and the freedom to shape how we build. You will build tools that directly inform decisions made at the highest level of the football operation. You will have real influence over technical direction in a small team where your decisions matter. The data you work with is as rich and complex as it gets in professional sport.

Key Responsibilities

• Application Development: Design, build and maintain internal web applications across the full stack, from database to UI. Own the frontend experience on the products you work on, with a focus on usability for technical and non‑technical users alike. Build and maintain backend services and APIs that sit on top of our data platform. Write clean, well‑tested TypeScript throughout and hold the bar for code quality in your team.
• Data and Infrastructure: Work directly with data engineers to understand data models, query patterns and pipeline outputs. Design and build efficient API layers that expose complex data in a way that is fast, reliable and easy to consume. Take ownership of cloud infrastructure for the applications you build, including deployment, monitoring and scaling. Contribute to CI/CD practices and ensure smooth, reliable delivery of new features.
• Collaboration and Support: Work closely with analysts, coaches and scouts to understand how they work and discuss prototype ideas. Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing within the Football Insights team. Participate in technical discussions and make decisions around architecture and tooling.
• Continuous Learning and Development: Stay current with the evolving frontend and full‑stack ecosystem, including new framework capabilities, tooling, and architectural patterns. Actively seek out better ways to build - whether that's improved testing approaches, performance optimisation techniques, or smarter use of AI coding tools. Engage with the football analytics community to understand evolving data needs and technologies.

Person Specification

We are looking for a technically strong developer who takes pride in building software that domain experts want to use. The right person will be comfortable working independently in a remote‑first environment, communicate clearly with non‑technical colleagues, and be genuinely curious about the football context their work sits in. Ownership matters to us, from the first conversation with an analyst through to production.

Skills & Experience

• Essential: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 4+ years of professional experience in full stack development. Production‑grade experience with a modern JavaScript framework such as React, Vue or Svelte, including performance considerations and component architecture. Strong TypeScript skills across the frontend and into the backend where applicable. Backend development experience including REST and GraphQL API design. Experience with relational databases, PostgreSQL or MySQL preferred. Understanding of data security principles and experience handling sensitive or confidential data responsibly in a production environment. Solid cloud experience in a production environment. Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Desirable: Experience with data visualisation libraries such as D3, Plotly or similar is a plus. Hands‑on experience with GCP, or a willingness to transition from AWS or Azure. Familiarity with the sports data ecosystem and the curiosity to identify where new tools could add value. Experience using AI coding agents (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or similar) as a real productivity tool, with the ability to review and critically assess generated output.

Personal Attributes

• Committed to continuous learning: embraces new technologies and techniques to stay ahead in the field.
• Rigour with pragmatism: applies robust standards while staying focused on the decisions, trade‑offs, and outcomes that matter most.
• Resilient and adaptable: thrives in a fast‑moving, high‑pressure environment with shifting priorities and perseveres through previously unexplored research projects.
• Ambitious and impact‑driven: hungry to raise standards, deliver meaningful impact, and help the Club win matches and trophies.
• Passionate about football: with a keen appreciation for the dynamics and pace of elite sports.

Safeguarding & Recruitment Statement

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. The Club follows a Safer Recruitment process for all roles. Successful candidates are to be reminded they would be subject to proportionate background, DBS and reference checks as required for this role. We welcome applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, gender, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.