Principal Engineer – Multi-Region & Internationalisation

Principal Engineer – Internationalisation Programme (Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, Cassandra, Postgres)

A global sports business is taking its platform international, and we need the architecture lead for the programme. You will be the subject-matter expert the whole programme leans on. That means guiding the shared services work, keeping the flagship consumer app on track, and covering the platform wherever services meet. It is a broad remit, and it is hands-on.

The programme

The client's shared services team supports several business lines. They are internationalising their flagship app alongside the shared services behind it, such as identity, loyalty and partner integrations. The first target is an isolated region with its own data-residency stack. Multi-region rollouts follow through 2027.

What you will work on

• Setting the architecture direction across the shared services, and making sure each one can run inside an isolated region with no hidden dependency on the original one.
• Keeping the flagship app's internationalisation coherent as the services underneath it change.
• Owning the seams: how the shared services int