Jay Stewart

Backend engineer. TypeScript, Node, Postgres and Stripe Connect now; PHP and Magento before that.

Eight years of e-commerce backend work, 2012 to 2020, on systems that hold other people's money: orders, payments, settlement, and what all of it does when something upstream fails. Then a six-year career break.

Since March 2026 I have been building again: SpiralClass, a live payments platform, and groundtruth, an open-source CLI. Both are on the work page.

Looking for a permanent mid-level backend role in the UK from January 2027, hybrid or in person, on a team whose code review is rigorous and whose seniors can say why. Get in touch.