Engineering Lead - Sports Platform

📋 Description

• Set pragmatic technical direction and lead system design across clients, APIs, services, data
• Create PRs, write production code and release features, alongside contributing technical designs
• Work with Product and Design to turn ambiguous opportunities into clear milestones, small
• Manage three to four engineers through clear expectations, one-to-ones, feedback, performance
• Develop engineers through design discussions, reviews, pairing, debugging and production incidents
• Champion effective testing, observability, safe releases and strong production feedback loops.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant backend engineering experience, including time operating at senior or lead level.
• Deep backend expertise with a full-stack, systems-thinking mindset across clients, APIs, services
• Strong Python skills, or experience with another modern backend language and a willingness to learn
• Experience setting technical direction and designing, delivering and operating reliable systems.
• Experience in formally managing engineers, or strong evidence of readiness to own one-to-ones
• Challenge assumptions constructively, helping Product and Design find simpler or more effective

🎁 Benefits

• Private health insurance with zero excess, including optical cover and optional dental.
• Income protection to protect your earnings and give you peace of mind.
• Tenure holiday policy. After three years you receive an extra two days leave, increasing to 30 days
• Flexible working and a fully supported home office setup so you can do your best work from home.
• Nursery salary sacrifice scheme helping parents save thousands each year on nursery fees.
• Salary sacrifice schemes for tech and holidays so you can spread the cost of the things you want.