Engineering Lead - Core Group

MidniteSports Betting

United KingdomFull-TimeLead

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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, data, infrastructure and operations.
Strong Python skills, or experience with another modern backend language and a willingness to learn Python.
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, feedback, performance and development for a team of three to six.
Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and break ambiguous, complex work into simple, safe deliverables.
Solid database and production-engineering fundamentals, including AWS, CI/CD and observability.
Strong communication skills with energy and clarity.

Set pragmatic technical direction and lead system design across clients, APIs, services, data, infrastructure and integrations.
Create PRs, write production code and release features, alongside contributing technical designs, investigations and reviews.
Work with Product and Design to turn ambiguous opportunities into clear milestones, small deliverables and frequent releases.
Manage three to six engineers through clear expectations, one-to-ones, feedback, performance management and development support.
Develop engineers through design discussions, reviews, pairing, debugging and production incidents without becoming a bottleneck.
Champion effective testing, observability, safe releases and strong production feedback loops.
Make sensible trade-offs, keep risks visible and help the team improve systems following production problems.
Use AI responsibly and contribute to hiring, onboarding and shared engineering practices.

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