Sportsbook - Frontend Engineering Team Lead

Are you an experienced Software Engineer festinated about leadership? The Sportsbook Area within Product Development is now hiring! We have a world-class Sportsbook, developed in-house by our dedicated Sportsbook tech team. Our Sportsbook Platform is ours – from our Architecture to our Trading teams – we have an in-house platform which hosts our brands offering Sports betting for our customers. From the tools our traders use to the cutting edge features our customers use to bet on various sports – our teams are the backbone to making this happen!

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.

The Team Lead will support the Engineering Manager in development, quality assurance and product managements whilst having direct reports.

A taster of what you will be involved with: 

• Working closely with members of the team to ensure successful completion of projects and overall support with all roll-out services;
• Enabling continuous improvement by supporting when needed;
• Being responsible for vacation planning of your direct reports;
• Holding periodic one-to-one meetings to ensure that every individual can perform at his/her best and supporting the development via close work with HR;
• Motivating the team into improving its performance and ensure that team members are always supported;
• Leading team efforts (engineers, developers, designers and other team members) towards successful project delivery for our customers;
• Collaborating with various stakeholders, maintaining a focus on business goals.

What we are looking for

• Development background in building highly scalable, containerized services and applications
• Strong preference for experience in Angular. Good understanding of modern web technology(Javascript,TypeScript, etc)
• Familiarity with .NET Core, C#, messaging systems (Rabbit MQ)  and in-memory databases (Redis, MS SQL)
• Deep understanding and interest in lean and agile principles for product development
• Demonstrated ability to build effective teams, motivate, direct and coach staff
• Strong people management & leadership skills

What we offer

Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1700 strong, spread across 7 offices with 900 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.

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