Planet Fitness continues its exciting growth trajectory, and this growth unlocks the need to place within the Digital Technology and Transformation Team a Full Stack Developer. Own end‑to‑end delivery and hands‑on development of our Planet Fitness App, Gym Management System—leading a small team of developers, writing production‑grade code, architecting CI/CD pipelines, enforcing secure‑by‑design and scalable infrastructure, and ensuring we ship high‑quality features on schedule.

Seniority and Reporting Structure

This role is a Senior Developer role reporting into Software Engineering (Development) Manager.

Work Break Down Responsibilities

The incumbent will be responsible for the following job functions:

1. Technical Leadership & Hands‑On Development
• Mentor and manage the Front‑End and Intermediate developers.
• Contribute daily to the codebase (Flutter UI, Java/PHP/Fast API services, PostGres SQL schema).
• Lead by example in writing clean, well‑tested, secure code.
• Develop, finetune and optimize Firebase Authorisation and Analytics setups/coding/etc

2. CI/CD & DevOps Pipeline
• Design, implement and maintain automated build, test and deployment pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
• Own zero‑downtime deployments, feature‑flag rollouts and rollback procedures.

3. Architectural Oversight & Tooling
• Define and enforce coding standards, branching strategies, code‑review processes and security best practices.
• Evaluate and introduce new tools/technologies (containerization, infrastructure‑as‑code, cloud services) to improve developer productivity and system reliability.

4. Scalability, Performance & Tech Debt
• Plan for horizontal scaling, database sharding/replication and implement monitoring (APM, logging, alerting).
• Conduct regular performance and security reviews; drive remediation of tech debt and bottlenecks.
• Take our existing product to the next level within the development requirements and established roadmap.

5. Stakeholder Communication & Road-mapping
• Act as the principal liaison between Product Management, UX/UI, Operations and external partners.
• Provide clear status reports, risk assessments and delivery roadmaps to senior leadership.

Experience and Exposure

The following minimum experience and exposure is needed for this role:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT or related field.
• 5+ years of software development experience, with 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Proven full‑stack expertise: Flutter (mobile/web), Java (Spring or equivalent), PHP frameworks, and PostGres SQL database design.
• Fast API and Firebase understanding and experience
• Expert in CI/CD and DevOps practices (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Strong track record of hands‑on delivery of secure, scalable systems in Agile environments.
• Excellent communication, people management and stakeholder‑engagement skills.

Education

1. Degree or Diploma in Information Technology (Programming focus)

Grade 12

Please send your CV to Recruitment@Planetfitness.co.za 

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