Senior Full Stack Engineer

Company: Chelsea FC
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you design, build and deliver fan-facing digital experiences end-to-end. You work closely with Product Managers and Designers to turn requirements into deliverables and prototype ideas with AI-assisted tooling. You own technical strategy, implementation, testing, accessibility, performance and security, ensuring production-ready quality from day one. This role blends product thinking with engineering excellence to ship impactful features that enhance the supporter experience.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Product Managers to translate requirements into technical plans
  • Rapidly prototype ideas using AI-assisted tooling to validate concepts
  • Build responsive, accessible, production-ready web experiences across devices
  • Design and integrate with Contentful; contribute to content model decisions
  • Build and consume APIs; integrate third-party services
  • Apply AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery while validating outputs
  • Write automated tests and instrument features for analytics and experimentation
  • Prepare code for external partner review and support deployment
  • Contribute to engineering standards, reusable components and ways of working

Key requirements

  • Strong commercial experience shipping modern web and app applications end-to-end
  • Excellent TypeScript and React skills; Next.js familiarity a plus
  • Experience with React Native
  • Experience with headless CMS platforms (Contentful) and API integration
  • Solid grasp of software architecture, testing, accessibility, security and performance
  • Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and ability to validate outputs
  • Demonstrated AI-assisted workflows to accelerate delivery, automate repetitive tasks and validate concepts
  • Comfortable working with design systems and shared component libraries
  • Proven ability to balance technical excellence, UX and business outcomes; Git, CI/CD and code review workflows
  • Collaboration with Product Managers and Designers
  • Product thinking and ownership
  • Strong communication and decision-making under pressure
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js (or similar)

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Posted: October 10th, 2026