Engineering Tech Lead – Brand Experience

The Wow

As a Tech Lead at Betsson Group, your primary responsibilities will be geared towards driving technical excellence in our products. You will serve as a bridge between the domain architect(s) and engineering teams, facilitating technical design, decisions and delivery. Being a technical expert, you will actively support our managers in building world class engineering teams. This is a hands-on role, where you will have frequent opportunities to research new technologies, lead technical investigations and develop POCs for new ideas, and will actively participate in key technical initiatives

A taster of what you will be involved with:

Your main goal is ultimately to drive technical excellence in the domain – in particular towards improving stability, performance, code quality, and development efficiency. To this end, you will be expected to:

• Identify and champion technical improvements for consideration in the roadmap, ensuring the benefits are clear and understood.
• Work closely with architects to ensure that the architectural direction and standards are being communicated, aligned & implemented within the teams.
• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of our business and products.
• Take the lead on technical design decisions, whilst ensuring alignment with the domain architect(s).
• Take an active, hands-on role with important technical initiatives and issues.
• Support new product development by producing POCs and/or documented technical designs.
• Research new technologies and assessing their potential application.
• Review major changes to ensure they are up to standard.
• Serve as a key technical point of contact for the domain, collaborating with product, architecture and engineering colleagues across the organisation.
• Help build our world class teams, thus participating in technical interviews and providing technical feedback on people, as well as coaching & mentoring engineers.
• Participate in team ceremonies such as planning, refinement, etc… to keep up to date on ongoing works and upcoming plans.
• Lead technical trainings to share knowledge and improve technical expertise within the teams.

What we are looking for

• A strong technical background in software engineering for web applications.
• Highly knowledgeable and experienced with TypeScript / JavaScript and Web Markup (CSS3/HTML5).
• A deep understanding of Observable technologies (preference for RxJS / Signals).
• Highly knowledgeable and experienced with modern agile software development practices, GIT based projects, and CI/CD.
• Knowledge about web component frameworks (ex. StencilJS)
• Highly experienced and comfortable working with large scale applications, including: SDK & FE components architecture, modularisation, efficient application bundling, unit testing, and integrating with backend APIs.
• Expertise in delivering highly performant web solutions on an international scale, with preference given to implementing SSR mechanisms and optimising content delivery with CDNs, caching, and other solutions surrounding front-end applications.
• Possess demonstrated working experience in defining and documenting technical solutions around front-end architecture and its integration with backend services.
• Ability to efficiently review PRs and provide constructive feedback.
• Experienced and passionate about coaching and mentoring people, preferably having done so in a similar role.
• Communicates clearly and confidently with the engineering team, whether running training or knowledge transfer sessions, walking through requirements, or presenting technical designs
• Communicates effectively upwards with Architects and the Head of Engineering, presenting technical proposals, trade offs and risks with clarity and sound reasoning
• Is approachable and open, someone the team feels comfortable going to for guidance or support. A strong team player who builds trust, shares knowledge willingly and contributes to a collaborative team culture