Lead Frontend Engineer

ROLE: Senior Frontend Engineer

We are Two Circles. We are a Sports & Entertainment Marketing business. We grow audiences and revenues. We do that by knowing fans best. We work with clients to help them understand & influence what their fans are doing the way fans spend their money the events that fans attend the channels fans respond to the content fans watch and more. And we use the understanding this gives us to help our clients grow. Grow their audiences and grow their revenues - both direct to consumer and business to business revenues. Our platforms and services are trusted by over 1000 clients globally including the English Premier League Red Bull UEFA VISA the NFL Nike and Amazon. We are over 1000 people based out of 15 offices and we deliver work for sports and entertainment businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As part of our exciting growth journey were expanding our Software Engineering team and are on the lookout for a talented Senior Software Engineer to join us on a hybrid basis at our London office.

This is a rare chance to work on high-impact greenfield products for some of the biggest and most iconic sports brands in the world. Youll be at the forefront of building modern scalable software from the ground up helping shape the future of fan engagement across global sport.

In this role you wont just write great code youll provide technical leadership drive engineering excellence and collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring bold ideas to life. Whether its advising clients on the right technology solutions or steering innovative consulting projects youll have a seat at the table where strategic tech decisions are made.

Youll also play a pivotal role in shaping our evolving technology strategy influencing the direction of our engineering culture and practices while helping us build an environment where developers thrive and create meaningful change.

Key Responsibilities

• Write clean and reusable code following best practices whilst helping to define coding standards and team conventions.
• Be an advocate for developer experience and have a keen interest in continually improving it.
• Encouraging a blameless culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.
• Leading and influencing the technical design architecture and development of digital projects.
• Work closely with Engineering Managers Engineering Leads and Product Managers to understand problems and define technical scope for global sports properties.
• Setting up software development frameworks for release management automation code quality and source control.
• Providing technical leadership mentoring and guidance to other Two Circles engineers.
• Keeping up to date on emerging technologies and trends in sports technology.
• Presence in our London office for 2 days a week is encouraged for this role and occasional travel to other offices in London and EMEA will be required at times.

• A minimum of 5 years experience in software engineering.

• A high level of proficiency and understanding in TypeScript React and with experience in desirable.

• Experience in a CI / CD environment where you have utilised tools such as Circle CI GitHub actions or Azure DevOps etc.

• An appreciation of DevOps and platform engineering culture. You dont just write code but you also like to build and ship it utilising cloud platforms and services such as Azure AWS or GCP.

• Experience in agile development practices continuous integration and test automation via various methods such as unit integration contract and E2E testing.

• You have a high degree of experience in observing the performance and health of applications via tools such as Grafana Prometheus Data Dog Sentry etc.

• You have a strong desire and are an advocate for performant applications.

• Proactive in solving problems simply and effectively with an eye for pragmatic solutions.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with a variety of audiences to explain your solutions and collaborate effectively with others.

• Experience building services for high traffic systems is desirable.

We have a list of flexible benefits that we offer; as a taste:

• Hybrid working: wed love for you to come into our office at least 2-3 days a week especially during your onboarding
• Performance planning: potential to have a salary increase every 6 months and progress your career
• Discretionary company bonus
• Tickets to sporting events
• Renowned Team Days and events (this June we went to Spain)
• Lunch on a Wednesday breakfast and continuous supply of snacks
• Private healthcare schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Learning and Development opportunities including certification in certain areas

Though these are the basics written down we will principally be recruiting for energy values and commitment both to Two Circles and to your career.

Our recruitment process will be honest & thorough and so will our return we can offer honesty integrity and the chance to progress in the organisation as quickly as you develop within it.

Two Circles is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race colour religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.