What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineering Team Lead, Sports Platform position at bet365?
Who we are looking for
A Software Development Team Leader, who will help to drive innovation, mentor top talent, and shape the future of our platform with cutting-edge technology.
The Sports Platform department is responsible for developing, enhancing and supporting our sports platform which is an n-tier system focused on low latency while supporting high throughput. You and your team will create amazing experiences for our traders who manage all the betting opportunities that go onto our site.
You will be responsible for building and managing a leading a team of T-shaped, full-stack engineers of varying experience levels and skillsets. You will measure quality and delivery, contribute and drive improvements, whilst ensuring that we remain skilled, engaged and empowered and that our processes and technology are efficient and fit for purpose.
The team will support microservices written mostly in C# utilizing SQL and build new services in Golang and Google Spanner datastore. We are moving from on prem to GCP hosted infrastructure. We utilize Kafka to consume data from external providers. The front-end of the trader apps will migrate from WCP to React. Testing and observability will be top of mind.
The salary for this role is $110,000 - $160,000 annually
This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.
Main Responsibilities
- Assisting in driving the provision of a capable, reactive, and motivated and delivery focused team.
- Enforcing governance of quality, rules, standards and processes to ensure solutions meet Business requirements.
- Ensuring the development process is conducted in a timely fashion.
- Planning and tracking works actively, as prioritized by the product, project and development management.
- Gaining a good understanding of the technical structure, domain and architecture of the systems that the team are responsible for.
- Identifying and mitigating risk.
- Removing blockers to delivery.
- Working through dependencies.
- Mentoring members of the team and ensuring distribution of knowledge.
- Inputting developer appraisals and other performance feedback.
Preferred Skills, Qualifications and Experience
Salary : $110,000 - $160,000
