Technical Lead

💻 Engineering Lead / Tech Lead (Back End / Golang / Go) 📍 Hybrid (Reading 1 day per week) ⚽ SportsTech 📃 Outside IR35 / 3 months rolling 💵 £500 - £700 per day Albany Growth are partnered with a sports brand entering a major phase of digital transformation following private equity investment. They’re building a connected platform that combines hardware, computer vision and cloud software to power gameplay, real time analytics and enhanced player experiences. They’re now hiring a hands-on Engineering Manager / Tech Lead / Engineering Lead to take ownership of the backend platform while leading a small team of engineers (5/6 of them). This is a key hire working closely with senior leadership and the CPO, helping shape both technical direction and product evolution as the platform scales. What you’ll be doing: 👉🏼 Leading and mentoring a small engineering team (5–6 engineers) 👉🏼 Designing and building backend services using Go 👉🏼 Owning and evolving platform architecture as usage grows 👉🏼 Building scalable REST APIs for web and mobile applications 👉🏼 Working cross-functionally with frontend, mobile and hardware teams 👉🏼 Managing data architecture across real-time and historical datasets 👉🏼 Driving CI/CD, testing and deployment best practices 👉🏼 Running services in cloud environments using Kubernetes 👉🏼 Monitoring performance and improving system reliability Tech stack: ⚙️ Go (Golang) microservices ⚙️ Kubernetes & Docker ⚙️ REST APIs ⚙️ Cloud infrastructure ⚙️ SQL databases 📍 Hybrid (Reading 1 day per week) 👥 Hands-on leadership role with real ownership 🚀 PE-backed business investing heavily in product and tech 🎯 Live product with active users and strong growth plans If you’re looking for something a bit different from typical SaaS roles, where you can stay hands-on while shaping a real world sports product, drop me a message for more details. 💻 Engineering Lead / Tech Lead (Back End / Golang / Go) 📍 Hybrid (Reading 1 day per week) ⚽ SportsTech 📃 Outside IR35 / 3 months rolling 💵 £500 - £700 per day