Senior Backend Tech Lead - C#/.NET & Azure

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Virgin Active membership

Private Healthcare

Life Assurance 4x salary

Pension (3% employer)

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Global Sports Jobs Limited is seeking a senior technical leader to drive backend services, APIs and integrations. You will blend hands-on engineering with strategic guidance within the Digital & Technology Transformation Team to deliver scalable, secure solutions across mobile apps, internal platforms and third‑party services.

You will guide engineers, set standards, own complex initiatives from design to deployment and collaborate with Product, QA, Data and frontend teams to improve

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering experience with technical leadership responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on experience with C#, .NET and Microsoft Azure.
• Experience building backend services, RESTful APIs and integration solutions.
• Knowledge of API-led, event-driven and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Experience designing scalable solutions across internal and third-party systems.
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring and DevOps practices.
• Experience leading technical delivery and supporting other engineers.
• Strong problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical delivery of backend services, APIs and integrations.
• Own complex initiatives from design through to deployment.
• Design and develop C# and .NET solutions within Azure.
• Set engineering standards and lead code and architecture reviews.
• Guide engineers through complex technical challenges.
• Work with Product, QA, Data and frontend teams to deliver solutions end to end.
• Improve system reliability, security, performance and observability.
• Lead incident resolution and help reduce technical debt.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies and delivery challenges.
• Share knowledge and support strong engineering practices across the team.

Skills

C#

.NET

Azure

Technical leadership

API design

Communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

Azure Service Bus

Logic Apps

Functions

Event Grid

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

Global Sports Jobs Limited is seeking a senior technical leader to drive backend services, APIs and integrations. You will blend hands-on engineering with strategic guidance within the Digital & Technology Transformation Team to deliver scalable, secure solutions across mobile apps, internal platforms and third‑party services.

You will guide engineers, set standards, own complex initiatives from design to deployment and collaborate with Product, QA, Data and frontend teams to improve