Engineering manager/Team Lead for Sportsbook Team

About your key responsibilities and impact:

• Conducting regular performance evaluations, providing constructive feedback, and creating development plans for team members;
• Defining project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders;
• Creating detailed project plans, including timelines and resource allocation;
• Implementing and enforcing quality assurance processes and standards within the team;
• Ensuring thorough testing and validation of deliverables before release;
• Continuously seeking ways to improve quality and efficiency in development processes;
• Promoting agile methodologies and other best practices for software development;
• Reviewing and approving technical designs, architecture, and code to maintain high-quality standards and ensure consistency;
• Acting as the primary point of contact between the team and upper management, as well as other departments;
• Facilitating effective communication and collaboration within the team and across the organization;
• Reporting on team progress, challenges, and successes to stakeholders and management;
• Ensuring transparency and alignment between team efforts and business goals;
• Efficiently allocating resources to meet project demands and balance team workloads;
• Manage team schedules, including handling time-off requests and ensuring adequate coverage;
• Identify areas for improvement in team processes and workflows. Implement changes to enhance efficiency, productivity, and quality;
• Promoting the adoption of best practices in software development, including agile methodologies and lean processes;
• Tracking and analyzing key performance metrics to identify trends and opportunities for improvement;
• Addressing and resolving any conflicts or issues within the team promptly;
• Fostering a collaborative environment where team members feel comfortable voicing their concerns;
• Creating a supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity and encourages collaboration;
• Providing training and developing opportunities for team members to enhance their skills;
• Organizing workshops, seminars, and other learning activities to keep the team updated with the latest technologies and best practices;
• Ensuring proper documentation of technical designs, system architecture, and code;
• Maintaining comprehensive documentation for future reference and knowledge sharing.

Essential professional experience:

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in a similar senior engineering role, with a strong track record of leadership, advanced technical skills, and successful project delivery;
• Understanding of how to lead, inspire, and motivate the engineering team(s) to achieve their best performance.
• Being able to use different motivation models depending on the context;
• Build a high-performing team by recruiting, hiring, and retaining top engineering talent;
• Understanding of how to conduct regular performance evaluations, provide constructive feedback, and create development plans for team members;
• Conflicts management skills. Clear understanding of how to manage conflicts and create win-win situations;
• Understanding of how to deliver projects on time, within scope, and within budget. Understanding delivery triangle;
• Understanding of the difference between KPIs/OKRs. Being able to set clear and achievable Goals to teams under supervision;
• Assess and improve engineering processes and workflows under supervision of EM/HoE;
• Being able to identify the problems to solve. Including conducting interviews with stakeholders;
• Understanding of different team KPIs. Ability to implement and monitor such KPIs;
• Ability to identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements;
• Proficiency in both written and verbal communication;
• Commitment to the professional growth and development of team members;
• Understanding how to mentor employees;
• Ability to create a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Required hard skills: Kafka, Docker, PostgreSQL or any table-oriented DB, MongoDB or any document-oriented DB, Redis, HTTP/WS API building, Any BE language, Proven experience of working with high-loaded systems, Problem solving skills.

Would be a plus: ElasticSearch, .Net Core, ReactJS, AWS, CI/CD automation, Experience with Documentation tools, K8S, Automated testing.