Backend Engineering Tech Lead

About this role

The Sportsbook Area is now hiring! Our world-class Sportsbook is fully 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 serving and offering a sports betting platform in different regions of the world. Our Product Development organisation is a cross functional one with teams spanning across 5 different Tech Hubs - 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 fully developed and operated in-house – from architecture and engineering to the trading operations. It powers more than 20 brands, delivering a comprehensive sports betting experience to our customers. From the internal tools used by our trading teams to the cutting-edge features that enhance the customer betting journey, our platform is built and maintained by dedicated, high-performing teams.
Our mission is to deliver industry-leading performance, functionality, and user experience within the iGaming space.
As part of our Sportsbook Technology team, you will contribute to a high-performance, high-throughput, and highly available product ecosystem. You will play a key role in ensuring that the team consistently delivers measurable business value while maintaining technical excellence.

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 design, POCs and development of complex tasks and also a key person in the team who ensures a high-quality delivery by the developers.

• Work closely with architects within the area to ensure that the architecture direction set is being communicated, aligned & implemented within the teams.

• You will also be aligning with the other tech leads across the product development department 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:

• 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

• Deep understanding of the latest C# and .NET framework/core.

• Experience deploying scalable back-end solutions using AWS/Azure/GCP.

• Expertise with distributed systems and high-speed database technologies, including SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).

• Familiarity with messaging systems, message queues, and event-driven architecture.

• Knowledge of containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).

• Deep understanding of coding best practices.

• You are a team player who readily offers help and shares knowledge with your colleagues.

• You are someone who is pro-active and love to not only to suggest improvements but also drive them.

Reporting

The employee reports to the Engineering Manager.

What we offer

• Monthly Allowance for Lunch

• Private & Life Plan Insurance for you and your family

• Team Building Budget

• Annual Wellness Allowance

• Corporate Travel Insurance

• Events and initiatives both Local (Quarterly Meetings) and Global

• Professional Development Programs & Internal Career Opportunities

• Milestone Birthday

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 1900 strong, spread across 7 offices! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right…