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Sports Senior Software Platform Engineer (Multiple roles, various seniority) | Sports Data We're also looking for PhD Sport Researchers, Quantitative Sports Modellers & Sports ML Experts We’re helping several sports data leaders, specialised in turning complex sporting datasets into actionable insights that drive smarter, evidence-based decision-making. Each team combines technical expertise with a genuine passion for sport, ensuring that the insights they deliver are both rigorous and practical. Build high performance trading and analytics platforms for the future of sports! Basketball, F1, Tennis, Horse Racing, Football (Soccer) and so much more... Essential Skills (Across the court/ track/ ground/ pitch): • Strong programming exposure with Go/ Golang or similar (such as Rust, Java, Kotlin, Python, C#, C++ etc), • Understanding of AWS to build pipelines., • Understanding of high-performance machine critical systems; ideally a sports trading platform or similar (financial trading/ banking/ air traffic platforms etc), • Strong problem-solving mindset with an analytical, systems-focused approach Bonus skills (100-point game, hat-trick, podium finish, Grand Slam): • Proven success with sports data/ the sports trading domain, • Genuine passion for sports and a curiosity-driven approach to understanding sports data Day-to-Day Duties (Throughout the venue): • Design, develop and analyse multiple high-performance sports trading and analytics platforms, whilst enabling global sports data to connect to it simultaneously, • Work with wider teams to add features, improve performance and increase reliability, • Contribute to CI/CD, security and long-term technical direction, • Innovate internal research projects exploring new metrics, analytical methods and applications of sport data Benefits (Beyond the match/ race/ game/ track): • An impact from day one, • Shape the future of sports technology, • Direct involvement with sport and the chance to apply tech to the real-world sporting calendar, • Creative freedom to experiment and innovate, • Supportive, collaborative culture that encourages learning and growth, • A vibrant team culture with a shared passion for sports, • Access to the latest tools and technologies, • Collaborative, flexible, remote first & hybrid working models, • Industry leading packages (competitive salary & bonus), plus an endless list of benefits.

We are representing a fast-growing, design-led performance apparel brand based in Liverpool who are looking for a Junior Merchandiser to join a growing team! Junior Merchandiser Global Leisure and Sports Brand Liverpool Full time, onsite – Flexible working hours Salary up to £35,000 + Benefits: • Early finish every Friday, • Flexible working hours, • Private medical insurance, • Free access to onsite gym, • Enhanced pension contributions, • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, • Birthday off, • Generous staff discount The team is passionate about product, detail and delivering collections that balance performance functionality with modern design aesthetics. Role Overview Reporting into the Senior Merchandiser, you will play a key role in driving departmental performance through planning, analysis, range building and trading. You will operate with real accountability, influencing stock decisions, managing ...

The Role in a Nutshell We are looking for a Backend-focused Full Stack Developer (Mid or Senior) to join our mission of transforming global access to sport. While we use Angular on the frontend, this role is roughly 80% Backend and Infrastructure. You will take ownership of the Playfinder and Bookteq platforms, ensuring our backend logic is robust and our infrastructure is secure and scalable. Our technical foundations are: • Core Back-End (Primary Focus): Modern PHP (8.2+), Symfony (6.4+), REST APIs, and SQL/Redis., • Infrastructure & DevOps: Owning our release management, security, and infrastructure (Terraform/Ansible)., • Front-End Support: Collaborating with our dedicated Frontend Dev using Angular, TypeScript, and SCSS., • Engineering Quality: A commitment to TDD, SOLID principles, and clear technical documentation. Why join? You will be the primary technical owner of our backend and infrastructure. Whether you are a strong Mid-level dev looking for more autonomy or a Senior looking to lead architectural decisions, you will play a pivotal role in our next two years of strategic growth. Package: £45k-£70k (Subject to experience) + Share Option Scheme + 25 Days Holiday + B’day Off About Playfinder, powering Bookteq Playfinder is a consumer sports marketplace and SaaS booking software scale-up based in Central London. We want to transform access to sport globally and our mission is to provide the best sports booking software and experience. We do this by providing high quality customer experiences on our search and booking marketplace, Playfinder, that has given over 1 million players access to pitches and courts for over 20 sports through our software annually. Alongside this, we enable self-service access and operations for facility operators and activity providers through our booking software, Bookteq. Together, our products drive increased utilisation of sports facilities, additional income for operators, and greater social impact in local communities, enabling more people in more places to play sports. Our Core Values; we are… 🚀 Mission-Driven - We’re different to other companies because of our dedication to improve the lives of both operators and players, and we carry this burden by striving to provide the best technology and customer experience to both sides of the experience. 🧬 Change-Makers - We want people who won’t accept the status quo, but who find a way to improve how something is done, repeatedly. Change making is about having the guts and ambition to bring about positive change. 🧠 Specialists - Our people strive to be specialists in their field, to take accountability and, coupled with a passion to learn, do what they do better than anyone else. Role Summary We are looking for a skilled and passionate Full Stack Developer to work alongside our tech team, General Manager, and commercial colleagues. Playfinder is in a critical phase in its growth; this role is pivotal to ensure we can meet the needs of an ever-evolving and expanding market. This is also a rare opportunity to join a company that has completed the transition from startup to high growth scale up and has a clear, realistic, and exciting two-year strategic plan. The role would be ideal for someone who wants to take real ownership. What we're looking for: • As a Mid-level candidate: You are a confident and talented coder eager to learn from our leadership team and help shape strategic direction while maintaining a robust PHP/Angular stack., • As a Senior candidate: You bring architectural thinking, a passion for mentoring, experience in end-to-end delivery, and the ability to influence our technical roadmap. Key Responsibilities • Backend Ownership: Building new features and maintaining our tech stack., • Collaboration: Providing technical feasibility advice to the product working group and supporting the Frontend Developer with robust API contracts., • Infrastructure & Security: Owning our releases, managing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring system security. Skills & Experience: • Backend: Expert-level modern PHP (8.2+), Symfony (6.4+), and REST API design., • Front-End: Modern Angular development (Components/State Management), TypeScript, and SCSS., • Documentation: Proficient in consuming, interpreting, and maintaining technical documentation., • DevOps & Tools: Experience with (or a strong desire to own) infrastructure as code (Terraform/Ansible), release management, and security best practices., • Data: Knowledge of SQL, Redis, and performance optimisation., • Frontend: Capable of working within Angular components when required., • Quality: Demonstrated understanding of SOLID, DRY, TDD, and technical documentation., • Process: Familiarity with Scrum/Agile and navigating trade-offs in complex systems. Bonus Experience: • Elasticsearch queries, API Platform, and Server Side Rendering (SSR)., • Familiarity with AWS or GCP would be a plus Package and Benefits • Salary: £45,000 – £70,000 (Subject to experience)., • Time Off: 25 days Annual Leave + Birthday Day Off, • Equity: EMI Share Option Scheme., • Wellbeing: Flex Wellbeing Allowance & NEST Pension Scheme., • Perks: Mac or Linux Laptop, Summer & Xmas socials, and Office refreshments. Location & Hours • Type: Full-time, 40 hours per week (Flexible core hours)., • Location: Remote-First (UK-Based) with Hybrid Flexibility. While our HQ is in Central London, our tech team operates with a degree of flexibility. Ideally, you are within commutable distance to join us in London one day a week (typically Mondays) for collaboration. However, for the right candidate located further afield, we are happy to discuss a flexible arrangement with occasional travel.

What are we building? Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We're building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating, and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer's interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we're always acting authentically. Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We're taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space — ready to join us? What's the position? We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our new Quantitative Sports team. As a Senior Engineer you will play a critical role in the development and maintenance of the backend aspects of the pricing system for our sportsbook and work alongside our quantitative analysts to deliver our in-house pricing solution. This position will be able to come in and have a lot of ownership of the shape of the backend implementation. Because we operate with a startup mindset, we will be reliant on your technical skill, but also your passion and ownership over all aspects of your work. Key Responsibilities: • Significantly contribute to efforts on a scalable platform designed to perform reliably under intense user and data load, • Be a contributor in architecture discussions regarding the pricing platform, • Be a contributor to the drive to reduce the latency within the system, • Ensure a full testing structure is in place to create confidence and resilience in the system, • Foster team collaboration and knowledge sharing, • Work closely with the quantitative developers to ensure best practices and alignment within the wider department, • Build operational tools and applications to support teams as required What are we looking for? • Minimum 8+ years of engineering experience, • Deep proficiency in Python, especially around backend development, • Experience working in a low-latency platform, • Experience of working in a multi-feed ingestion architecture, • Experience with Micro-Service and Service oriented architectures, • Experience in deploying and managing cloud-based systems and infrastructure (AWS), • Experience with different databases:, • Relational (Postgres, MySQL, etc), • Analytical (Snowflake, Clickhouse), • Strong knowledge of messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and pipeline architecture, • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, • Self-driven, meticulous, and ability to prioritize in a complex and fast-paced environment Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Engineering, Computer Science or other related scientific, technical or business discipline, • Minimum of 8 years job related experience Preferred: • Experience within the sports betting industry, • Understanding of pricing engines, trading algorithms, or live odds generation., • Strong interest in sports and sport analytics, • Knowledge with game state feeds such-as Radar & Genius What’s in it for you? We offer our employees more than just competitive compensation. Our team benefits include: • Competitive pay and benefits, • Flexible vacation allowance, • Flexible work from home or office hours, • Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand, • Opportunity to build products enjoyed by millions as part of a passionate team Roster of Uniques We care deeply about every interaction our customers have with us and trust and empower our staff to own and drive their experience. Our vision for our business and customers is built on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where regardless of background or beliefs you feel able to be authentic and bring all your talent into play. We want to celebrate you being you (we are an equal opportunities employer)

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Midweight Apparel Designer About the Business Our client is a fast-growing, design-led performance apparel brand based in Liverpool. The brand operates at the intersection of sport and lifestyle, creating high-performance products designed to support movement, confidence and everyday wear. With a strong community focus and a reputation for innovation, the business continues to scale at pace while maintaining a collaborative and agile culture. The team is passionate about product, detail and delivering collections that balance performance functionality with modern design aesthetics. Location: Liverpool Working Pattern: Full-time, onsite (flexible working) Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum Domain Experience: Sportswear and performance apparel design ideally The Role An opportunity has arisen for a mid-level Apparel Designer to join the menswear design team. This role will suit a creative and adaptable designer with a strong sportswear background and a genuine passion for performance product. Working closely with senior design leadership, you will contribute to seasonal collections and special projects across both sports performance and lifestyle apparel. The position requires a commercially aware mindset, a sharp eye for detail and the ability to translate research and insight into innovative, brand-aligned product. Cross-functional collaboration is central to the role, particularly with product development, materials and wholesale teams. Strong communication skills and attention to detail are essential. Key Responsibilities * Drive seasonal menswear design direction using data, customer insight and market research to inform creative and commercial decisions. * Lead the design and development of assigned ranges from initial concept through to final production. * Conduct seasonal colour research and develop commercially relevant palettes. * Translate global and market trends into brand-right product. * Undertake functional research to understand end consumer needs, performance requirements and sport-specific considerations. * Participate in overseas development trips, inspiration visits and competitor benchmarking. * Produce detailed technical artwork and comprehensive tech packs for production handover. * Collaborate with the Materials team to define seasonal fabric and trim direction. * Partner with the Wholesale team to deliver SMU and exclusive product ranges. Key Skills and Experience * Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design or a related discipline. * 3 to 5 years' experience in apparel design, with a strong sportswear background. * Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. * Strong understanding of pattern cutting, garment construction and technical fit. * Good knowledge of the apparel production process from concept through to bulk manufacture. * Strong research capability with the ability to translate insight into commercially viable product. * Clear awareness of the sportswear market and current trends. * Strong communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment. Remuneration and Benefits * Salary up to £35,000 per annum. * Discretionary 5% bonus. * 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays. * 40% employee discount. * Company pension contribution of 3%. * Life insurance at 4x annual salary. * Enhanced maternity and paternity leave. * Paid birthday leave. * Free onsite parking. * Free refreshments. * Access to employee benefits platform. As an industry leading, nationwide Marketing, Digital, Analytics, IT and Design recruitment agency, we are continually receiving new assignments to work on, so keep a close eye on our website, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages for a full list of current permanent and interim opportunities as well as marketplace news and fun stuff. Forward Role is operating as an employment agency. JBRP1_UKTJ