Backend Engineering Tech Lead - Sportsbook

Our Sportsbook technology department are now hiring! Our world-class Sportsbook is fully developed in-house by our dedicated Sportsbook tech team and growing at a very rapid rate, expanding not only in new markets but also as a B2B product serving and offering a sports betting platform in different regions of the world. Our Product Development organisation is a cross functional one with teams spanning across 5 different Tech Hubs - in Malta, Budapest, Stockholm, Tallinn and Athens.

The Wow

Our sportsbook platform is fully developed and operated in-house – from architecture and engineering to the trading operations. It powers more than 20 brands, delivering a comprehensive sports betting experience to our customers. From the internal tools used by our trading teams to the cutting-edge features that enhance the customer betting journey, our platform is built and maintained by dedicated, high-performing teams. Our mission is to deliver industry-leading performance, functionality, and user experience within the iGaming space.

As part of our Sportsbook Technology team, you will contribute to a high-performance, high-throughput, and highly available product ecosystem. You will play a key role in ensuring that the team consistently delivers measurable business value while maintaining technical excellence.

A taster of what you will be doing:

• As a Tech Lead you will be part of the Sportsbook B2B & Integrations Value stream, participating in design, POCs and development of complex tasks and also a key person in the team who ensures a high-quality delivery by the developers.
• Work closely with architects within the area to ensure that the architecture direction set is being communicated, aligned & implemented within the teams.
• You will also be aligning with the other tech leads across the product development department to ensure the technical consistency, take ownership of and drive technical excellence initiatives within Sportsbook.
• Identify technical improvements in the applications you are responsible for.
• Validate technical improvements and help Product Managers prioritise such improvements
• Be able to explain the benefits of technical improvements to both technical and non-technical audience.
• You will also participate in development, testing, code reviews, bug fixing, implementing new features as well as maintaining and improving the existing functionality.
• Help build our world class team, thus participating in technical interviews as well as coaching & mentoring engineers.
• Stay up to date with technology, understand the benefits and use cases of a variety of technologies and be strategic in their implementation.

What we are looking for:

• Someone who is passionate about building things, with a strong technical background and an understanding of non-functional requirements.
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