Job Title: Software Developer
Sector: Combat Sports
Salary: €30,000-45,000
Location: Hybrid (Yorkshire, United Kingdom)
Employer: BoxRec.com
Start date: Flexible, from January 2025 onwards
Who we are:
BoxRec.com is the official record keeper for various combat sports, including professional boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, and bare knuckle fighting. BoxRec.com is a website for both the public and the boxing industry, used by at least 100,000 people every day. We work with over 460 different sports authorities around the world.
We are a global, yet local company, with our software development team based in Yorkshire. You will be required to work remotely with monthly meet-ups with the lead developer and rest of leadership - offering a great work-life balance.
The IT team is small and lean, the candidate will take up core responsibility for the development of service applications.
Our values:
As an official record keeper, our mission is to provide a comprehensive online database dedicated to preserving the history of combat sports. We strive to transparently document every fighter and their bouts, providing accurate and unbiased data for fans, historians, and the combat sports community at large. We look to serve the combat sports industry by providing an online service to our data and software that simplifies the recording of data.
We believe that as an official recognized record keeper, we owe it to the public to provide transparency and honesty. To maintain our reputation as a trustworthy source of information we look to our employees to be examples of honesty and transparency.
Key responsibilities:
This full time role covers the entire development life-cycle from requirements capture/analysis, to design, implementation, deployment and support. The role additionally requires forward thinking and idea generation. The platform for BoxRec is PHP (MVC framework) with a MySQL database and incorporating JQuery and React at the front-end, deployed in a Linux environment.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated bespoke developer who is able to report on their tasks, identify resources, handle software and API development, deployment, maintenance, bug fixing, and service monitoring to the Project Manager ensuring all work activities and tasks are appropriately and accurately logged.
Front End Skills:
Javascript, JQuery, React, HTML, CSS, Less, JSON, XML, Webpack
Back End Skills:
PHP, Symfony Framework (MVC architecture), OOP, Yaml
Database: MySQL – SQL, ORM, PDO, Stored Procedures
Server Software: Apache webserver, MySQL Database, HTTPS
Operating System: Linux
Typical activities include:
* Developing additional functionality
* Writing database queries
* Identifying and correcting bugs
* Testing (functional and system)
* Creating feeds of data
* Designing and developing new features
* Supporting existing users of the system
* Integration of AI
Requirements:
Essential:
* UK based, able to commute once a month for a Yorkshire in-person meetup
* Undergrad degree in software engineering
* 3+ years of experience in software development
* Able to work in a remote environment
* Interest in AI
* We do not sponsor visas, you must have the pre-existing right to work in the UK.
* UI and UX experience
Desirable:
* Proficiency in PHP, SQL, CSS, HTML, Symfony, MySQL, Linux, Apache
* Interest and understanding of combat sports
* Experience working in fast paced, growing environments
Application Process:
First stage video/phone interview, second stage technical interview, final stage face-to-face interview with the full team.
How to apply:
Email your CV to help@boxrec.com and a sample of projects that you created and are proud of that you can walk us through during the interview.