Lead Software Engineer - Data

Location: London, United Kingdom; flexible hybrid working arrangement, with most time remote and office attendance for important team meetings, collaboration sessions, and business activities.

Company

hirify.global, part of Sony Interactive Entertainment and Sony Group Corporation, develops hirify.global hardware, network services, and major console games while providing analytics services for hirify.global Studios.

What you will do

• Own integrations with the data platform, including BI tooling, APIs, internal websites, and other tools.
• Develop and improve data pipelines, integrations, and platform services.
• Scale the platform, define its technical direction, and enable studio self-service.
• Drive improvements aligned with technical and business goals.
• Collaborate with DevOps, data and frontend engineers, and stakeholders across the studio business group.
• Support existing tooling by improving quality and documentation, and share technical expertise with colleagues.

Requirements

• Experience building data integrations between different platforms, including APIs and pipelines.
• Strong Go development experience, or Python experience with willingness to learn Go.
• Experience building robust, scalable, and resilient services.
• Demonstrable measurable impact in current or previous roles.
• Experience taking primary ownership of parts of a platform.
• Experience with AWS services such as Amazon S3, Lambda, Redshift, Kinesis, Data Firehose, Athena, and AWS Glue.

Nice to have

• Experience using AI during the development cycle, including Claude Code, Codex, or other harnesses.
• Experience integrating with Omni Analytics or similar BI tools such as Looker or Tableau.
• GitHub and GitHub Actions experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working, with most time spent remotely unless office attendance is preferred.
• Office attendance is expected for key moments where in-person engagement is beneficial.
• Inclusive, diverse, and equal-opportunity working environment.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for all new employees and may include criminal background checks for some roles.