Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer – Production System, Real Impact

(Open to more Front-end or More Backend leaning engineers, providing you're happy to work across the full stack)

Five days a week in office | Free Parking

Core collaboration hours are 10am–2pm, with flexibility around that.

The Role

Not a “move fast and break things” shop.

More like “move deliberately and build things that can’t break.”

I’m working with a rapidly scaling SaaS platform used daily in real-world, high-stakes environments. This isn’t greenfield tinkering. It’s a mature, complex production system where stability, performance and judgement actually matter.

If you enjoy solving real engineering problems, not just shipping UI tickets, keep reading.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Building and improving backend functionality (PHP-heavy environment)
• Working across React + legacy jQuery (yes, both — and modernising pragmatically)
• Designing APIs and integrations
• Debugging real production issues (the interesting kind)
• Optimising MySQL queries and improving performance
• Shipping safe, incremental improvements to a live platform

This is engineering with responsibility. You’ll be trusted to think about downstream impact, regression risk, and system integrity, not just whether it works on your machine.

The Tech

• PHP (strongly preferred) If you’re strong in Java, C#, or Python but comfortable operating in a PHP environment, we should still talk.
• jQuery
• MySQL

Nice to have:

• React
• AWS
• Docker / Kubernetes

If you resonate with the below, you'll thrive:

• Production-first mindset
• Low ego, high ownership
• Pragmatic (no architectural theatre)
• Flags risks early
• Delivers what they commit to

What Success Looks Like (6–12 months)

• Production-quality features with minimal regression
• Improved stability & performance in the areas you touch
• Gaining trust through consistent delivery

If you’re the type of engineer who enjoys leaving systems better than you found them, without rewriting everything for fun, this one’s worth a chat.

Reach out for more information and immediate consideration.

[email protected]

At BLACKROC Recruitment, we are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds, including those with lived experiences. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the above-mentioned BLACKROC Consultant.