Senior Fullstack Engineer

About the role

Build, modernize, and scale the core systems behind DartConnect, the software platform powering competitive darts worldwide.

DartConnect is used by clubs, leagues, tournament organizers, federations, professional events, broadcasters, and players around the world. Our platform operates at real production scale, with thousands of matches scored every day, high-traffic web applications, and years of accumulated tournament, league, player, ranking, registration, payment, and match data.

As part of this role, you will work directly with our Head of Technology to build, maintain, modernize, and scale the core product systems behind DartConnect. The work spans Laravel applications, Vue/Inertia frontends, MySQL & MongoDB databases, Redis-backed services, selected legacy Node.js systems, and the workflows that support live scoring, tournament operations, league management, registration, payments, rankings, and TV displays for live events.

Location & Work Mode

We are remote-first. This role is open to candidates in North America and Europe. We value deep focus and async work, and we also meet in person around selected major tournaments and team off-sites.

Our Tech

DartConnect runs on a mature, high-traffic platform with a mix of modern Laravel/Vue applications and legacy systems that still power important parts of the business.

Our stack includes:

• Laravel, PHP, queues, scheduled jobs, and APIs for the core backend systems

• Vue, Inertia, and Tailwind for the main frontend applications

• MySQL/Percona for large production datasets across matches, players, leagues, tournaments, and rankings

• Redis for cache, queues, and real-time coordination

• Node.js and MongoDB in selected real-time and online-play systems

• Stripe and PayPal for payments, registrations, and memberships

• DigitalOcean, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions, Sentry, Slack, and Linear for infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, communication, and planning

A big part of the work is improving the platform we already have: modernizing legacy areas, making systems faster and more reliable, and supporting the real-time workflows behind live scoring, tournaments, leagues, public live scoring pages, and TV displays.

How we work

We hire pragmatic engineers who can take ownership, work through ambiguity, and ship reliable solutions without adding unnecessary complexity.

DartConnect powers live tournaments, leagues, and broadcasts, so quality matters. A scoring bug is not just a software issue. It can affect a real match, a real event, or a real broadcast. That is why we test in production-like environments, think carefully about edge cases, and care about building systems that hold up under real usage.

We value engineers who are practical, product-minded, and comfortable improving existing systems as well as building new ones. We are darts people too, so you may occasionally hear strong opinions around here, including Arno’s view that double 8 is one of the best doubles on the board.

DartConnect is an equal opportunity employer. We care about talent, ownership, and passion, regardless of your background.

What you'll do

• Build and improve full-stack product features, from MySQL schemas and Laravel APIs to Vue/Inertia frontends used by players, organizers, officials, and internal teams.

• Own product areas end-to-end across tournament operations, registration, payments, rankings, public APIs, and live event experiences.

• Improve performance and reliability across frontend flows, backend APIs, jobs, queues, and database queries, especially during live events.

• Evolve older parts of the platform toward a simpler long-term architecture across Laravel, Vue, Livewire, and Node/Express systems.

• Contribute to real-time scoring, live scoring tv pages, and broadcast-related systems with a strong focus on maintainability and operational reliability.

• Improve payment and registration flows across tournaments, memberships, and regional circuits.

• Strengthen monitoring and alerting so issues are detected and resolved faster.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software.

• Strong experience with modern PHP and Laravel.

• Strong frontend experience with Vue or another modern JavaScript framework.

• Solid backend experience with relational databases, APIs, queues, and performance troubleshooting.

• Comfortable working in a polyglot environment. We primarily use Laravel and Vue, with some services in Node.js.

• A track record of shipping complex, end-to-end product features with clear user or business impact.

• Good product judgment and a strong focus on UX, speed, reliability, and maintainability.

• Comfortable asking questions, challenging unclear requirements, and raising technical concerns early.

• Able to work independently without heavy oversight while staying aligned on priorities, architecture, and team direction.

• Comfortable in a remote, async-first team that values clear communication and practical execution.

• Bonus: experience with real-time systems, legacy modernization, payments, Laravel at scale, or an interest in competitive sports.