Senior Software Developer

Company Description

BRS Golf Ltd, a division of NBC Sports Next, is an innovative technology company that powers solutions for golfers and golf courses to better connect. At BRS Golf our course management software and services help our Golf Course partners increase their rounds and revenue and manage their business operations. GolfNow is the world's largest online tee time marketplace, used by over 3.5 million golfers worldwide.

From our award-winning international HQ offices in Belfast, we are driving forward and reshaping an entire industry, building innovative new web based and mobile products, and assisting golf course operators to manage profitable and sustainable businesses across UK, EMEA and Australia.

We take pride in offering an exceptional team member experience with generous benefits and perks designed to offer financial security, support wellbeing and enhance work life balance. Learn more about working with BRS Golf via

This is a great opportunity to advance your career and be a part of an exciting business with plans for significant future growth.

Job Description

The Senior Software Engineer will develop software for our current and next generation cloud and mobile enterprise products. Working closely with Product, Engineering and Operational Teams, this highly visible and mission critical position will assist in the development of products that process tens of millions of online golf rounds per year. You will work with cutting edge technologies and become involved in the implementation and evolution of the entire product development lifecycle.

The Senior Software Engineer will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that is responsible for new products, new features, maintenance, and support of our platform through the delivery of key responsibilities that include:

• Contributing to the design and development of Object-Oriented software.
• Interacting with multiple stakeholders spanning Product, Technology and Operations teams.
• Contributing to the software development lifecycle including analysis, design, coding, and testing.
• Proactively managing their own tasks to agreed deadlines.
• The ability to take ownership for delivery of any projects they are contributing towards.
• Adopting and providing feedback on industry best practices to our development teams.
• Working collaboratively within and beyond the team to identify innovative ways to improve practices and procedures.
• Mentoring and onboarding new team members.

Qualifications

It is essential that candidates have:

• Minimum 5+ years professional Software Development experience using PHP and related tools/frameworks (Composer, Symfony, Laravel, etc).
• Experience with SQL and RDBMS, preferably MySQL or a popular fork.
• Experience of web services and developing/consuming REST APIs.
• Familiarity with basic front-end development practices and JavaScript frameworks, e.g., VueJS.

Candidates must also be able to demonstrate:

• Professional experience in Object Oriented Development.
• That they are self-motivated, highly organised, proactive, and passionate about software development.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills with attention to detail.

Desirable skills and experience:

• Experience working with legacy or enterprise systems.
• Containerized application development using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Microservices.
• Message-broker software such as RabbitMQ.
• PHP unit-testing and mocking frameworks.
• CI/CD with tools such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Agile delivery principles & supporting processes.
• An understanding of the golf industry and a passion for the game.

Additional Information

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