Senior Manager, Development and Architecture

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Fullsteam is a leading provider of vertical software and embedded payments technology dedicated to helping businesses flourish by providing their customers with seamless experiences. With a dynamic and growing team of over 1,900 employees, we are committed to driving innovation and delivering best-in-class software and payment solutions that empower small and medium-sized businesses across numerous industries. Our purpose is to help our customers grow their businesses and delight their customers. Join us and be a part of a forward-thinking company that values growth, excellence, and the success of our clients.

Part of the Fullsteam organization, we are a cloud-based management platform serving golf courses and private clubs across North America. Our software empowers facilities to efficiently run every aspect of their operation. from membership and tee time booking to point-of-sale, event scheduling, competition management, and club website hosting. By streamlining these core functions into a unified platform, we help course operators enhance member experience, drive revenue, and simplify their day-to-day operations.

As our lead developer, you will own maintenance and enhancement of a mature web-based SaaS application providing best-in-class course management, point-of-sale, and tournament management capabilities to the golf industry.

The ideal candidate is an engineer with extensive experience in PHP, SQL, AngularJS, and TypeScript ready to lead projects focused on enhancing our platform. You will be a hands-on leader of a small team, prioritizing and executing on work in multiple areas including new features, security initiatives, maintenance, and modernization.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop an in-depth understanding of the existing application, serving as a technical reference to product, development, sales and customer success teams.
• Collaborate with the product team to define and architect new features and enhancements.
• Utilize software security scan tool outputs to appropriately prioritize and address scan tool findings in accordance with Fullsteam SLAs.
• Mentor and task a small development team.
• Ensure software quality, leading code reviews and owning / executing a lightweight QA process.
• Identify and triage issues with legacy codebase health, providing objective assessments of criticality and ROI of modernization opportunities.
• Lead discussions on all aspects of software development, including architecture, integrations, and UI.
• Respond to corporate reporting and oversight requirements regarding technical operations of the Business Unit.

Skills & Competencies:

Technical Leadership

• Proven experience leading full-cycle software development, including architecture, design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Strong mentorship and task management capabilities, with a history of guiding distributed development teams.
• Demonstrated ability to own and evolve a complex legacy codebase while introducing modern engineering practices.

Software Development

• 7+ years of hands-on PHP development, with deep familiarity maintaining and enhancing large production systems.
• 3+ years working with the SLIM PHP framework is strongly preferred.
• 5+ years of SQL experience, including schema design, migrations, stored procedures, performance tuning, and advanced query development.
• 3+ years building and maintaining AngularJS-based front-end applications; strong TypeScript proficiency.
• Comfortable applying MVP, KISS, and YAGNI principles to guide pragmatic technical decision-making.

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Strong operational knowledge of AWS services and infrastructure-as-code patterns.
• Proficiency with Docker and containerized deployment workflows.
• Experience with DevOps processes, CI/CD pipelines, and secure software delivery.

Security & Compliance

• Familiarity with security scan tools and processes for triaging and remediating vulnerabilities.
• Experience supporting or developing Point-of-Sale (POS) systems in PCI-compliant environments is strongly preferred.

Collaboration & Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to serve as a key technical liaison across product, engineering, customer success, and executive teams.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical strategy and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in a fully remote environment and across time zones.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional experience in full-stack software development, including PHP and SQL.
• 3+ years of experience in a technical leadership or team lead role, ideally with distributed teams.
• Proven experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and containerization (e.g., Docker).
• At least 3 years of experience with AngularJS and TypeScript in production applications.
• Strong understanding of software security principles and experience remediating vulnerabilities.
• Authorized to work in either the US or Canada.

Fullsteam supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience, and background. Fullsteam is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.