Lead Platform Software Engineer (£115,000 - £130,000) at next-generation sports entertainment p ...

Lead Platform Software Engineer

Salary: £115,000 - £130,000

Company Description: Next-generation sports entertainment platform

Job Description: Join a high-growth engineering team as a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the reliability, performance, and scalability of a cutting edge sportsbook and casino experience. This hands on leadership role involves shaping core infrastructure, managing a small team of engineers, and making critical architectural decisions using a modern stack including Python, AWS, and Terraform.

Location: London, UK

Why this role is remarkable

• Significant technical ownership over a modern cloud platform during a high growth scaling phase
• Collaborative, engineering led culture with a focus on developer productivity and high performance standards
• Exceptional benefits package including zero excess health insurance, nursery salary sacrifice, and comprehensive flexible working policies

What you will do

• Own and drive architectural decisions focusing on uptime, resilience, and performance across core platform services
• Manage and mentor a small engineering team while contributing directly to production code and daily delivery
• Lead the technical design for complex infrastructure projects and improve deployment pipelines and observability systems

The ideal candidate

• Over 7 years of engineering experience with deep expertise in Python, AWS, and distributed systems architecture
• Proven track record in a leadership or management role within platform, backend, or infrastructure engineering
• Expert ability to break down complex, ambiguous technical problems into clear milestones and scalable engineering plans