Technical Lead - Backend

What Your Day Will Look Like

As a Technical Delivery Lead at Beyond Sports, you'll operate at the intersection of engineering leadership, technical strategy, and hands-on software development.

You'll work closely with Technical Directors, Architects, Engineering Managers, Project Managers, and Tech Leads to ensure our engineering teams are delivering high-quality, scalable solutions that align with both client needs and business objectives.

A significant part of your role will involve supporting multiple squads across a range of projects, helping teams navigate complex technical decisions, managing delivery risks, and ensuring we continue to evolve our engineering standards and ways of working.

Unlike many leadership positions, you'll remain deeply involved in technology. Around 60% of your time will be spent actively developing solutions, building Proof of Concepts, validating technical approaches, exploring new technologies, and solving the complex engineering challenges that help de-risk delivery.

You'll act as a key escalation point for technical issues, supporting teams when they encounter particularly difficult problems and helping drive pragmatic, scalable solutions.

You'll also play an important role in resource planning and team development, working alongside Engineering Managers to ensure squads have the right skills, capacity, and support to succeed. You'll help create opportunities for engineers to grow while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

As a senior technical leader, you'll contribute to governance discussions, support project planning and estimation, and help shape the technical direction of the wider organisation.

What We Value

At Beyond Sports, we value technical excellence, collaboration, and a willingness to continuously improve.

You'll thrive in this role if you:

Enjoy balancing strategic leadership with hands-on engineering

Take ownership of complex technical challenges and drive them through to delivery

Are passionate about helping teams grow and perform at their best

Enjoy influencing technical direction across multiple teams and stakeholders

Can confidently bridge the gap between business objectives and engineering execution

Are always looking for ways to improve processes, tooling, and ways of working

Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences

Enjoy working in fast-moving environments where innovation is encouraged

Skills and Experience

We're looking for someone with a strong engineering background and a proven track record of leading teams through the successful delivery of complex technology solutions.

Essential

Significant experience in software engineering, with expertise in backend, frontend, mobile, or full-stack development

Experience leading engineering teams and supporting multiple delivery squads

Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and engineering best practices

Proven experience delivering large-scale, complex technology projects

Experience managing scope, dependencies, technical risk, estimation, and delivery planning

Strong stakeholder management skills with experience working across technical and business leadership teams

Hands on experience with AWS and modern cloud-based architectures

Experience mentoring engineers and helping develop technical capability within teams

Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Nice to Have

Experience working within sports technology, media, broadcasting, or digital entertainment

Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, or technology integration programmes

Experience standardising engineering practices across multiple teams or business units

Exposure to client-facing technical leadership and pre-sales activities, including RFP support

Experience working on products or platforms serving large global audiences

Why Level Up Your Career at Beyond Sports

Help shape technology used by millions of sports fans around the world

Work with some of the biggest names in global sport, media, and entertainment

Join a Sony company at the forefront of sports technology innovation

Influence technical strategy while remaining hands-on with engineering

Work alongside talented engineers, architects, product leaders, and delivery specialists

Drive meaningful improvements across teams, platforms, and ways of working

Join a culture that values ownership, collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement

If you're looking for a role where you can combine technical leadership, strategic influence, and hands on engineering, we'd love to hear from you.

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