Sportsbook - Backend Engineering Tech Lead

The Sportsbook Area with Product Development is now hiring! We have a world-class Sportsbook, 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. Having our product available in different parts of the world and offering sports all around the world requires to have support around the clock. Our Product Development organisation is truly Global with cross functional teams spanning 5 Tech Hubs. These can be found 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 ours – from our Architecture to our Trading teams – we have an in-house platform which hosts our brands offering Sportsbetting 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! Our aim is to create the best performance, functionality and user experience in the iGaming industry! As part of our Sportsbook tech team – a high performance, throughout and availability product serving many brands (20+), you will be key in ensuring that the team delivers the required business value.

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 the development effort of higher complexity tasks but also a key person in ensuring a high-quality delivery by the developers.
• Work closely with architects within the area to ensure that the direction set by the architects is being communicated, aligned & implemented within the teams.
• You will also be aligning with the other tech leads across the product development department in order 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:

• You are a team player who readily offers help and shares knowledge with your colleagues.
• You are someone that is Pro-active and love to not only suggest improvements, but also drive them.
• Min. 5 years' experience in development
• Deep understanding of the latest C# and .NET framework/core.
• Experience with ASP.NET Core for building web-based applications.
• Familiarity with messaging systems, message queues, and event-driven architecture.
• Experience deploying scalable back-end solutions using AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Knowledge of containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Expertise with distributed systems and high-speed database technologies, including SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
• Deep understanding of coding best practices.
• Understanding of caching, CDN and infrastructure in relation to how customers interact with our site.
• Being able to understand our different release processes.
  
  

Reporting

The employee reports to the Engineering Manager.

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.

At Betsson Group we work with a Hybrid Work From Home (WFH) model, giving you the flexibility of working 3 days in the office (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) and 2 days from home.

We offer numerous challenges where your skills will be put to good use! We encourage innovation, independence and celebrate success where you will be part of multi-cultural and diverse company, with people from all over the world.

Challenge accepted?