Engineering Tech Lead - Player Management

Location: Malta

Department: Product Development

Are you an experienced Senior .NET Engineer or Technical Lead ready for your next challenge? 

The Wow

Our PAM (Player Account Management) team is now hiring! We are an international team with some of the best people in the industry! If you are passionate about the latest technologies and can handle company-critical responsibilities, then this is the role for you!. As a Tech Lead in the Player Account Management (PAM) Area at Betsson Group, your primary responsibilities will be geared towards driving technical excellence in our products. You will serve as one of the most technically senior members of the team, facilitating technical design, decisions, troubleshooting 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 proactively research new technologies, lead technical investigations and develop POCs.

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 (preferably using Docker and Kubernetes) and highly cacheable RESTful APIs.
• A deep understanding of real-time messaging patterns (preferably Kafka and RabbitMQ).
• Highly experienced and comfortable working with both SQL and NoSQL databases (preferably PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Couchbase).
• Possess demonstrated working experience with observability practices for highly available systems (such as Grafana and OpenTelemetry).
• Experienced and passionate about coaching and mentoring people, preferably having done so in a similar role.
• Able to work out of own initiative and under pressure.

Great if you have

• Technical proficiency with .NET technology stack.
• Working experience with AWS.
• Clear verbal & written communication  

A taster of what you will be involved with

Your main goal is ultimately to drive technical excellence in the area - 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, measurable and understood. This includes introducing standards and best practices in the area.
• 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 area 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 area, 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.
• When necessary, 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 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.

 

Challenge Accepted? 

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