The Lead Backend Developer will be part of the fully remote Backend development team - building services to support a variety of products used by customers in the sports industry across the UK and internationally. This role will take on the technical leadership of one of our cross-functional product teams, architecting scalable and maintainable backend systems and ensuring best practices for coding, testing, and deployment. This is a hands-on role.
Architecting and developing software in Golang
Ensuring security, performance, and reliability of backend services
Ensuring adherence to software development best practices
Developing microservices and deploying on Kubernetes
Connecting microservices with Event Bus (RabbitMQ) and gRPC technologies
Deploying and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for your projects (we use Bitbucket pipelines)
Developing at scale - our newest service has over 3.5 million active users monthly with large peaks during match weekends
Building content, marketing and communication tools for sports clubs to communicate with fans
Building live services with websockets at scale
Leading and mentoring backend developers
Strong knowledge of Go
Good knowledge of SQL and both relational (PostgreSQL etc) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB etc)
Knowledge of Java for legacy services
Experience in containerisation with Docker / Kubernetes
RabbitMQ and/or Kafka
gRPC
Familiarity with AWS
High level of written and spoken English
Confident and articulate when engaging with customers and other non-technical stakeholders
Evaluating and selecting appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools.
Ability to deal with competing demands in a fast-paced environment
A self-sufficient individual who is happy taking the lead on a project
Able to work well with others, collaborating and contributing to the overall collective to find great solutions
Positive, committed with a can-do attitude and a flexible approach
At least 5 years of experience in the industry
Computer Science Degree or equivalent to a high standard
Experience mentoring and leading more junior team members
Cortex offers a friendly and creative environment in our London office base with the flexibility to also work from home.
Team - A “one team” approach means we work collaboratively across departments and with our clients and partners, sharing and developing knowledge and skill sets.
Environment - Dedicated to providing the best working environments for staff. Flexible work hours, hybrid working, recently renovated offices and support in setting up at home spaces.
Inclusivity - Cortex values diversity as an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status.
Progression - Learning, development and career progression are encouraged and facilitated at Cortex, with all roles supplemented with relevant training courses, conferences and internal workshops.
Connection - Cortex’s expertise and industry connections are unrivalled; senior leaders come from backgrounds in some of the biggest names in sport from Opta to IMG.
Sport - Being a sports fan is not essential to succeeding at Cortex, but you will be offered the opportunity to experience some of the biggest sporting events in the global calendar.
The Cortex story began in 2015 when CEO Aidan met CTO Ciaran in the innovation laboratories of a university campus outside the youthful, tech-savvy city of Brighton, United Kingdom. Together with the start-up development team, they began to build a solution to a market problem, building technology to create more connected digital ecosystems.
After 9 years developing the product suite in direct partnership with customers, Cortex was launched in 2024 to better serve the digitally diverse sports industry as a quick-to-deploy SaaS platform for data and revenue driven sports marketing.
Cortex products are used by multiple top tier sports organisations and clubs including; Arsenal FC, Formula 1, ECB, the Hundred, Euroleague Basketball, URC, Premiership Rugby, RL Commercial, SA20 and SportFive and well as leading solutions agencies like UNRVLD, Strut Digital, Playfly and Skylark Creative.
Cortex customers are using fully connected technologies to create seamless user journeys, optimise digital fan experiences and unlock new commercial opportunities enabling revenue to flow and their businesses to thrive.
This is a rare opportunity to be part of a fast-growing start-up business offering a lot of progression potential, opportunity and personal growth.
The recruitment process will focus primarily on your values and energy for the role.
Send your CV and something that shows why you’re the perfect person for the job! This can be anything; a supporting email, a video or perhaps a case study of previous work….. the team wants to find out more about you.
Please email everything to jobs@cortextech.io
