Senior Software Engineer

Our client are a world-renowned leader in their sport, with a proud heritage dating back nearly a century. Their brands are synonymous with innovation, quality, and performance, and they’re recognized globally by a dedicated community of players. Recently backed by a leading private equity firm, they’re entering an exciting new phase of strategic growth and transformation as they build the tech that’s taking their sport online. Their Autoscoring platform uses cameras to detect play in real time, powering online competition, live stats, and training tools for a growing global community of players., * Designing and building Go microservices running on Kubernetes

• Building well-designed, scalable REST APIs
• Creating and evolving database schemas
• Writing automated tests and owning services through their production lifecycle
• Working closely with our frontend, mobile, product, and hardware teams to ship features end to end
• Sharing knowledge through code reviews and pair programming

Experience with Go is not essential - will look at Java, Kotlin or Rust backgrounds, * 5+ years commercial programming experience (Ideally with 2+ years with Go but open to similar programming experience)

• Solid grounding in Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD
• Comfortable with REST API design, SQL, and microservices architecture
• Experience with test automation, unit and end-to-end testing
• Cloud experience (any major provider), Git, and Agile ways of working
• A collaborative mindset - happy to pair program and work cross-functionally, * Sports or gaming industry experience
• Hetzner cloud knowledge
• Machine learning exposure, * Be at the forefront of technology in sport
• Flexible hybrid working and a high degree of autonomy
• Work directly with a seasoned CPO, CTO, and our technology investors
• Join at a pivotal moment as a legacy brand scales into a digitally connected future