OpenPlay is a B2B SaaS Product focussed for the sports and leisure industry – think booking of football pitches, opening gates in your local gym, Putting your child onto a tennis course and everything in between

•        Supplying booking solutions some of the largest sports centres in the world

•        Working with the Olympic park to get more people active

•        Providing activity and coach management for multiple premier league clubs (West Ham, Liverpool etc)

•        Partnering with Nike and other brands to promote sport across various media campaigns

•        Powering the largest indoor sports arena in the UAE, handling check-in and bookings for over 10K people a day

•        Helping thousands of people find other players and matches via our online marketplace and app

•        Supplying online booking for some of London’s largest parks such as Hyde Park, Regents Park, Finsbury park, Clissold Park and countless others

we’re developing V2 of our offering (we’re around 6 months in) based on the knowledge we’ve gained over the previous years, as such this is very much a greenfield style project where you wont be held back by legacy code and instead have the opportunity to shape the product going forward. This is a full time role

Whilst we have an office in London the dev team is based remotely over the UK and broadly follow an agile approach to working, including

•    Daily standups over Zoom

•    Sprint planning/retrospectives

•    Code reviews

•    Show and tell/sprint demos

You need to be available/online during standard office hours, ideally UK based but we will consider anyone 2 hours around GMT and be able to come down to our UK office (where appropriate) once every few months (we’ll pay for your travel) for everything from catchups with other parts of the business, planning/architecture sessions as well as some more fun activities- we’ve recently had company outings to escape rooms,  VR gaming sessions and outdoor bowls (we are a sports startup after all!)

•    Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

•    Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc.

•    Real world experience in developing react SPAs using redux, sagas etc

•    Experience in react native with at least one app built for both iOS and android

•    Experience in JS package development

•    Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use

•    Familiarity with RESTful APIs

•    Typescript experience

•    Experience of Lerna (https://github.com/lerna/lerna)

•    Understanding of UX or at least an eye for what “looks good”

•    We’ll supply hardware of your choice (windows/macbook/linux etc)

•    Ability to decide on tooling that you use day to day – sublime/vscode, sourcetree/kraken etc

•    No deploy Fridays – we use Friday afternoons to scratch your own itch on other parts of the codebase you feel might need improvement or to improve your own knowledge in other related tech stacks

•    Access to learning materials (udemy/laracasts etc) or conferences – we recently sent all devs to Laravel Live UK including hotels

As with any startup the work is varied, but here’s a random selection of things we’ve recently been working on

•    working with NFC readers/wristbands as well as turnstiles/gates for access control

•    Creating API endpoints for our booking widgets

•    Creating a theming system to handle out white label offerings

•    Handling contactless payments via websockets

•    Point of sale module with a react frontend built for touch screens

The main stack at the moment is:

    Laravel 5.7,

    Redis

    Bootstrap 4

    GitHub

    React / react native

    Circle CI build process

    Docker /docker swarm for development and production

Please send an email to cv@openplay.co.uk with

•    salary expectations

•    CV and any other details you may have such as GH links etc

Finally,  although the product is sports focused, only around 20% of the team could actually explain the offside rule to you, so please don’t let that put you off