Lead Product Engineer - Football

Our client is looking to appoint its first in house Lead Product Engineer to take full ownership of the platform behind a fast growing prize competitions business. Our client runs prize competitions for football supporters, giving them the chance to win football prizes and merchandise. It is a profitable and fast growing business with a large and loyal football following, built on strong product instinct, speed and real football knowledge. Football supporters love what it does and they keep coming back. The whole business runs on its platform. This is the first engineering hire, bringing that capability in house so that ideas can move from concept to live product quickly. The role This is not a website maintenance role. The business wants a builder, someone who enjoys creating products and turning ideas into reality. Roughly 70% of the role is product development, building new customer facing features, new games and mechanics, checkout and customer account improvements. It also covers the internal tools and dashboards behind them. Around 20% is platform ownership, covering hosting, deployments, server health, security, backups and third party integrations. The remaining 10% is technical planning with the CEO, scoping projects, estimating the work and challenging ideas with better solutions. One month you might build a new game. The next you might redesign the Prize Portal. What you will bring Front end. HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with modern frameworks such as React or Vue. ..... full job details .....