Gaming - Tech Lead

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

• 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.

What we are looking for

• A strong technical background in software engineering.
• 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 high availability systems (such as Grafana and OpenTelemetry).
• Experienced and passionate about coaching and mentoring people, preferably having done so in a similar role.
• Highly knowledgeable and experienced with modern agile software development practices and CI/CD.