Engineering Lead - Sports Platform
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MidniteSports betting
Location: United Kingdom; Workplace: RemoteFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- Significant backend engineering experience, including time operating at senior or lead level.
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonCI/CD
Requirements
- Significant backend engineering experience, including time operating at senior or lead level.
- Deep backend expertise and 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 willingness to learn Python.
- Experience setting technical direction and designing, delivering and operating reliable systems.
- Experience formally managing engineers, or strong evidence of readiness to own one-to-ones, feedback, performance and development for a team of three to four.
- Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and help Product and Design find simpler or more effective solutions.
- Ability to break ambiguous, complex work into simple, safe deliverables.
- Solid database and production-engineering fundamentals, including AWS, CI/CD and observability.
Responsibilities
- Set pragmatic technical direction and lead system design across clients, APIs, services, data, infrastructure and integrations.
- Create pull requests, write production code and release features while 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 four engineers through expectations, one-to-ones, feedback, performance management and development support.
- Coach engineers through design discussions, reviews, pairing, debugging and production incidents.
- Champion effective testing, observability, safe releases and production feedback loops.
- Make technical trade-offs, keep risks visible and help improve systems following production problems.
- Use AI responsibly and contribute to hiring, onboarding and shared engineering practices.
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