Full Stack Engineer

Company Description

mytradesmen.co.uk is a growing technology-led platform connecting customers with trusted tradespeople and service providers. The company focuses on simplifying the process of finding, booking, and managing home and property services through intuitive digital tools. As part of a collaborative team, employees contribute to building reliable solutions that improve both customer and tradesperson experiences. The organization values practical innovation, clean design, and robust engineering practices. Team members are encouraged to share ideas, take ownership, and help shape the future of the platform.

Role Description

This is a full-time, remote Founding Full-Stack Engineer (Mobile-Led) role, UK-based, with our HQ in East London. Working directly with the CTO, you'll take a finished, high-fidelity product design and a live sign-up site and build the product that takes it to market owning the full stack from mobile front-end to server-side logic. Daily tasks include implementing mobile UI from high-fidelity designs, building and optimizing RESTful APIs, integrating Stripe (including Stripe Connect for marketplace payments) and other third-party services, and ensuring performance, security, and scalability of the platform. The role involves working closely with the CTO to refine requirements and unblock delivery, holding quality firm as the team moves toward launch, and owning the engineering decisions that matter architecture, testing, documentation, CI/CD. There's no committee, no bureaucracy just clean scope, a strong design, and the trust to get on with it. You'll also troubleshoot with clarity, write clean and well-documented code, and support deployment and release processes.

Qualifications

• Strong full-stack development skills, with a track record of shipping end-to-end web or mobile applications
• Proficiency in cross-platform mobile development, React Native or Flutter
• Back-end experience in one or more server-side frameworks (Node.js, Python, Java, .NET), with solid RESTful API design
• A firm grasp of relational or NoSQL databases, data modelling and query optimisation
• Experience integrating payment systems, ideally Stripe Connect
• Working knowledge of Git, modern build tooling, testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines
• The ability to write code the next person can actually read and reason about
• Clear, direct communication and the ability to operate effectively in a small, fast-moving team
• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent hands-on experience
• Especially valuable: experience building marketplace or two-sided platform products, or prior work in the service, construction or trades industries
• Salary: £40,000–£50,000 depending on experience.