Sportsbook - Backend Engineering Tech Lead
The Sportsbook Area is 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
Much like a rollercoaster, life at Betsson Group is fast-paced, full of twists and turns, and always exciting. With more than 2,800 colleagues representing over 75 nationalities across a global network of offices - including 1,500 at our operational headquarters in Malta - every day brings new challenges and opportunities to grow. It may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you thrive on innovation, enjoy pushing boundaries and want to be part of a diverse, international team, then you’ll fit right in at Betsson.
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.
- Expertise with designing and implementing distributed microservices
- Deep understanding of the latest C# and .NET framework/core.
- Experience deploying scalable back-end solutions using AWS/Azure/GCP.
- Expertise with distributed systems and high-speed database technologies, including SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
- Familiarity with messaging systems, message queues, and event-driven architecture.
- Knowledge of containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
- Deep understanding of coding best practices.
- You are a team player who readily offers help and shares knowledge with your colleagues.
- You are someone who is pro-active and love to not only to suggest improvements but also drive them.
Reporting
The employee reports to the Engineering Manager.
What we offer
- Fitness-wellness allowance 🧗♂️
- Company mobile phone for private use with 100 GB 📱
- Annual HUF devaluation compensation 💡
- Hybrid model: 3 days in the office 🏢 & 2 days from home 🏠
- Private Health Insurance 🩺
- Career development 📈
- Technical and soft-skill training opportunities 🎓
- Breakfast, fruits & lunch 🍎
- Team building events 🥳
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