Tech Lead - Betting Engine
Tech Lead - Betting Engine
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Job Description
As a Tech Lead you will manage a team of engineers responsible for the development and enhancement of our Betting Engine ensuring the smooth delivery of high-quality real-time and scalable features within a Scrum framework. This role blends hands-on technical contributions with team leadership mentoring and driving best practices. You will be responsible for your teams technical excellence output and process improvement while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver on business objectives in the fast-paced world of sports betting.
This role will be hybrid in the Krakow office 1-2 times per week.
What You Will Do
- Develop implement and maintain best practices and standards to ensure the betting engine is reliable scalable and performant.
- Advocate for and oversee the delivery of high-quality test-automated code tailored to the unique needs of the betting engine.
- Perform quality control through code reviews ensure resolution of technical debt and balance product development with system improvements.
- Collaborate with Solutions Architects to create and review technical designs and architectural documentation before engaging your team.
- Partner with the Delivery Lead to ensure adherence to Agile/Scrum best practices focusing on delivering features critical to betting engine operations.
- Directly contribute to sprints by picking up user stories assisting with refinement and breaking down technical tasks to keep the team on track.
- Collaborate with Product and Delivery Leads to size work identify risks and dependencies and assign user stories to team members.
- Hold the team accountable for delivery pushing back on unrealistic timelines when needed and ensuring processes are followed throughout development.
- Report on progress against key initiatives communicate risks and manage dependencies to stakeholders.
- Support the team in preparing for feature readiness deployments and releases in the betting engine ecosystem.
- Act as the direct manager of your engineering team conducting regular 1:1s providing mentorship and delivering constructive feedback to foster growth.
- Support hiring and people management initiatives to build a high-performing team.
What You Will Need
- 5 years of progressive experience as a software engineer preferably within high-growth or real-time systems like betting or transactional platforms.
- Proven ability to mentor guide and develop engineers with 1 year experience managing software engineers preferred.
- Extensive engineering experience in:
- Scala and related frameworks
- Building and maintaining APIs for high-throughput real-time applications.
- Utilizing AWS for cloud-native architectures.
- Kafka and other NRT messaging platforms.
- OLTP systems critical to real-time transaction processing.
- Relational and non-relational databases like Cassandra Redis Postgresql
- Observability tools like Splunk and NewRelic
- Experience designing software architecture for scalable distributed systems.
- Strong expertise in Agile product delivery and Scrum methodologies.
- Demonstrated bias toward action and ownership over key initiatives with a delivery-focused mindset.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full Time
