Senior Fullstack Engineer

We're looking for a senior engineer to help build the next generation of Mowt. You'll work across the full stack—from crafting Laravel APIs and MySQL schemas to building React web apps and React Native mobile experiences that handle millions of Stripe transactions.

You'll ship features customers love, wrangle AWS Lambda functions, optimize queries that slice through terabytes of payment data, and help shape our engineering culture as one of the first 10 employees. We work hard, ship fast, and celebrate wins together—whether that's a successful deploy or Friday drinks.

What You'll Do

• Build and ship features end-to-end: Laravel APIs, MySQL schemas, React web apps, React Native mobile
• Design scalable pipelines processing millions of Stripe webhooks through AWS Lambda
• Optimize MySQL queries and ClickHouse analytics for dashboards rendering 100k+ transactions
• Collaborate with design on beautiful, data-rich experiences using Tailwind CSS
• Own the full lifecycle: ideation, implementation, deployment, monitoring, celebrating success
• Contribute to technical decisions, architecture reviews, and team knowledge sharing

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years building production software that real people use
• Strong experience with Laravel/PHP or similar MVC frameworks (Rails, Django, etc.)
• Solid React and TypeScript chops—bonus points for React Native experience
• Deep knowledge of MySQL and how to make it sing (indexes, query optimization, migrations)
• Experience building data-intensive applications, preferably with payment or financial data
• Track record of shipping features that customers genuinely love
• Strong communication and collaboration skills—we're a small team, everyone's voice matters

Bonus Points

• AWS Lambda, SQS, or other serverless experience
• ClickHouse, BigQuery, or other analytics database experience
• Built analytics dashboards or data visualization tools
• Worked at an early-stage startup and lived to tell the tale
• Open source contributions or technical writing

Frontend

• React
• React Native
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• Laravel / PHP
• MySQL
• ClickHouse
• Stripe API

Infrastructure

• AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3)
• Docker
• GitHub Actions
• CloudWatch
• Salary: £120,000 - £160,000 based on experience
• Equity: 0.15% - 0.35% (early employee grant)
• Health: Private medical insurance (Vitality or Bupa)