Senior Full Stack Engineer
Chelsea FC's Digital Product team is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer to build fan-facing digital experiences end-to-end at Stamford Bridge, London. Day to day: prototyping and shipping responsive web/app features with TypeScript, React and React Native, integrating Contentful and APIs, and using AI-assisted development tools while owning quality, accessibility, security and performance.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- London, GBR
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Fullstack
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong commercial experience shipping modern web and app applications end-to-end
- Excellent TypeScript and React (familiarity with Next.js or similar modern React frameworks is a plus)
- Experience with React Native
- Experience with headless CMS platforms (Contentful preferred) and API integration
- Solid grasp of software architecture, testing, accessibility, security and performance
- Confident using modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) daily, with judgement to validate their output
- Demonstrated ability to use AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate delivery; comfortable with design systems and shared component libraries
- Proven ability to balance technical excellence, user experience and business outcomes; Git, CI/CD and collaborative code review workflows
Nice to have
- Experience designing Contentful content models
- Experience interpreting Figma designs and rapidly converting them into working prototypes
- Experience collaborating directly with Product Managers and Designers in discovery and validation activities
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure)
- Familiarity with ASP.NET Core, C# or similar enterprise web backends
- Experience working alongside external development or engineering partners
- Experience with automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, E2E, visual regression)
- Understanding of security, privacy and responsible use of AI tools with proprietary code and supporter data
- Experience with analytics/experimentation tooling
- Agile product delivery experience
Full description
JOB TITLE: Senior Full Stack Engineer (AI-Assisted Development)
DEPARTMENT: Digital Product
LOCATION: Stamford Bridge, London
CONTRACT: Permanent, Full Time
JOB FUNCTION: Deliver the Club's digital product roadmap by building world-class digital experiences for supporters.
Closing date: 4th November
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. In the event that we receive a large number of applications, the position may be filled before the listed closing date. To avoid missing out, please submit your application at your earliest convenience.
About the Role:
We're hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer to design, build and deliver digital features end-to-end. We are looking for someone with a Strong product engineering mindset, with experience working directly with Product Managers and Designers to discover, prototype, test and deliver fan-facing digital experiences. Able to use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards of quality, security, accessibility and performance.
You'll own the journey: technical approach, implementation, testing, accessibility, performance and security. AI accelerates the work; you remain accountable for it. Your code is handed to our external development partner for review and release, so the bar is production quality from day one.
This is a role for a full stack developer who enjoys ownership, product thinking and building well — not just shipping fast. You'll help us experiment quickly, validate ideas with real users and turn successful concepts into production-ready experiences.
What you'll do:
- Partner with Product Managers to turn requirements into technical solutions and delivery plans
- Rapidly prototype ideas using AI-assisted tooling to validate solutions before committing to production development
- Build responsive, accessible, production-ready web experiences for our app, desktop, mobile browsers and web views, on top of our design system
- Design and integrate with Contentful and contribute to content model design where needed
- Build and consume APIs, and integrate third-party services
- Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery while critically validating all AI-generated outputs
- Write automated tests and instrument features for analytics and experimentation
- Prepare code for review by our external development partner and collaborate through the release process, addressing feedback and supporting deployment
- Contribute to our engineering standards, reusable components and ways of working