Team Lead - Backend (Python)
About this role
Team Lead - Backend (Python)
Department: 61-685 - Technology - DAZN X
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Israel
Reporting To: Adi Deautscher
Description
Joining our R&D organisation means working on products that reach a global audience at massive scale. As part of the team responsible for DAZN's social interaction platform, you'll help shape the next generation of fan engagement, enabling users to connect, share, and interact in real time during the biggest sporting moments. If you're passionate about building resilient cloud-native systems while leading and developing high-performing engineering teams, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact within one of the world's leading sports entertainment platforms.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Defining and driving the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for the backend platform
- Leading the design and development of scalable microservices supporting real-time social interaction features
- Establishing engineering standards, coding best practices, and quality assurance processes
- Overseeing automated testing, end-to-end testing, performance testing, and platform reliability
- Leading, mentoring, and developing a team of backend engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development
- Collaborating with Product, Architecture, and cross-functional engineering teams to align technical delivery with business objectives
- Supporting recruitment activities, including technical interviews and hiring decisions
- Evaluating new technologies and continuously improving engineering processes, infrastructure, and development workflows
What You'll Bring:
- Previous experience in software engineering, including experience building cloud-native backend platforms
- Previous experience leading or managing engineering teams, with a passion for coaching and developing others
- Strong expertise in Python and modern backend development practices
- Extensive experience designing microservices, event-driven architectures, REST APIs, and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with AWS, serverless technologies, infrastructure as code (Terraform), SQL/NoSQL databases, and modern software engineering practices
- Experience integrating AI tools into software development workflows
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub Actions or Jenkins
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP and HTTP
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments using Jira and Confluence
- Experience building consumer-facing, high-traffic products within sports, media, or streaming organisations
Benefits
Company at a glance
We are DAZN. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. Together, we bring ambition to life.
We are the digital leader in global sports media. We are home to the world’s largest, fastest-growing sports streaming service. We're using world-class technology to revolutionise the industry.
As part of our team you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere.
For us, it's all about Limitless Ambition - never settling, always restless, always wanting more for our customers. We're growing fast and have made a big impact so far, and that's just the beginning. There's so much we can do. Working with us is exciting, empowering and truly global.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity. A place where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, this means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.
If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, that’s fine. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience. Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible. We will do our best to accommodate adjustments for interviews.
If you're ambitious, inventive, passionate, brave and supportive, then you're the kind of person who's going to enjoy life at DAZN.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Top Benefits
- Dynamic And Challenging Work Environment
- Learning And Development Resources
- Access To Advanced Technologies
- Family-friendly Community
- Flexible Working
- Full Access To DAZN Broadcasts
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