Senior Backend Software Engineer

Back End Engineer, Connected Sports Tech Location: Remote / hybrid, 1 day a week in Reading The opportunity Our client is a century-old global sports brand, recently backed by a leading private equity firm and moving into a digital era. They're building a camera-based auto-scoring product that tracks play in real time and connects to an app for online games, stats and training. You'll build the Golang services and databases behind it, working in a small cross-functional team alongside the hardware engineers. What you'll be doing Build and maintain back end REST services in GolangDesign and evolve the SQL data model behind those servicesRefine user stories with product and integrate APIs with front end developersWrite automated tests, then build and deploy to productionMonitor performance and quality in production with the ops teamShare knowledge through code reviews and pair programming What we're looking for 4+ years of commercial experience in Go, or a similar language such as Kotlin or RustBack end experience on a high-volume consumer productHands-on experience building REST APIsStrong SQL and familiarity with PostgreSQLExperience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelinesComfort working at a higher level to help shape back end architectureA figure-it-out attitude and comfort with shifting priorities in a startup-style team Bonus points if you have Kubernetes and containerised deploymentsGrafana/Loki monitoring and observabilityModern front end, or Swift/Kotlin for mobileA background in sports or gaming What's on offer Bonus of up to 20% based on individual and company performancePension with 3% employer and 5% employee contributionsPrivate healthcareCycle to work scheme, with a salary sacrifice EV scheme coming soonTravel to the office paid forYou spec your own dev machineAccess to 60+ co-working spacesA high degree of autonomy, working directly with a seasoned CTO, CPO and technology investors