Engineering Lead

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Engineering Lead

Full-time · UK

About us

At Monterosa, we are passionate about bringing people together through engaging and interactive experiences in entertainment and sport. Our mission is to enhance popular culture by delivering innovative solutions for some of the world's most beloved brands in media, sports, and entertainment.

We strive to inspire and empower organisations to connect with their audiences in meaningful ways.

About you

  • You've worked through the ranks as a developer and have a good technical degree or equivalent, and 3-8 years of experience likely in either a Web Front End Senior Developer,  technical leadership or technical architecture role now

  • Multi-year experience with the relevant technology stack (see above)

  • Hands on experience within JavaScript, TypeScript, and React

  • Experience in building web applications and knowledge of modern devices, browsers, and UI trends

  • Experience integrating third-party service providers

  • Experience working in an Agile development environment using Git Flow and code reviews via GitHub/GitLab

  • Good knowledge of security principles and security by design best practices

  • An appreciation for the value of good processes, good documentation, and effective time and resource planning

  • An eye for design and the skill to ensure that an app matches its agreed designs exactly

  • You are an all-rounder who can both architect and lead a scrum team effectively

  • Do you like the idea of working in TV production, theatre, music, or sports organisations

  • An experienced engineer, a strong communicator, an innovative problem solver, a planner, and a teacher to your team

  • Calm, methodical, and resilient, you've been in some scrapes, planned your way out, and can show others how to do the same

  • Experience in line management, or want to take the next step into management, with passion and drive, particularly ensuring your team is happy and motivated   

Skills

Tech skills:

  • Typescript

  • React

  • Styled-Components

  • Git

  • Jest

  • NPM

Engineering Skills:

  • Architectural design

  • Documentation

  • Following and evolving patterns

Beneficial:

  • AWS S3, Cloudfront, Lambda

  • AWS CLI

  • vitest

  • rollup

  • vite

Key Responsibilities:

What You'll Do:

Taking responsibility for the architecture and technical delivery of the products and solutions in your team

  • Managing a (currently home-based) agile development team based in the UK (primarily London and Liverpool) and Europe (various locations)

  • Working on a platform that powers a range of massively scalable real-time products and solutions in entertainment and sport

  • Take a full-stack view of your work, including our own in-house platform Monterosa / Interaction Cloud, a socket-based real-time application server cloud

  • Collaborate with backend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side application logic

  • Working on client libraries and APIs, and implementing a highly flexible complicated UI 

  • You will be working alongside producers, designers, and testers, building products and solutions for the big names globally in entertainment and sports industry.

  • Finally, when you tell your friends what you do, they'll get it!

Apply for the job

Join Us: If you're ready to make a tangible impact with your design skills and be part of a dynamic team pushing the boundaries of interactive entertainment, we'd love to hear from you!