Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable Data & APIs

La Fosse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

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Job summary

La Fosse is recruiting for a backend/data-heavy engineer to join a world-leading sports technology platform. You’ll design APIs and distributed systems powering data pipelines at scale, connecting player identities and game metadata across a global product suite.

This senior role offers ownership from day one, mentoring others, architectural input, and the chance to shape technical direction within a small but growing team.

Qualifications

• Backend or data-heavy environment experience required.
• Experience with cloud (AWS) and CI/CD.
• Proven mentoring and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design APIs and distributed systems for large-scale data.
• Solve hard engineering problems like entity resolution and data consistency.
• Shape technical direction and conduct architectural reviews.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to design reviews.

Skills

Backend-heavy environment

Data-heavy environment

C#/.NET

GraphQL

Elastic

MongoDB

Kubernetes

AWS

Java

TDD

CI/CD

Mentoring & leadership

Tools

Video/Media at scale

Job description

La Fosse is recruiting for a backend/data-heavy engineer to join a world-leading sports technology platform. You’ll design APIs and distributed systems powering data pipelines at scale, connecting player identities and game metadata across a global product suite.

This senior role offers ownership from day one, mentoring others, architectural input, and the chance to shape technical direction within a small but growing team.