What are the responsibilities and job description for the Head of Product Engineering position at Derivco?
Job Profile Summary
We are looking for a Head of Product Engineering to lead our Sports Core Team. The Core team are responsible for building the central hub of our global Sports Betting platform, where bets are struck, matched with our sports offer, enhanced and settled.
Job Description
As Head of Product Engineering, you will lead four engineering teams with three based in our Barcelona office and one in London, as well as an architecture team and a small team of product experts. You will be heavily involved in defining the product and technology strategy for your teams and will be accountable for the delivery of the services being built. You will also be accountable for the development and growth of the engineering teams.
Skills and Experience
What you’ll do
- You’ll work closely with your engineering managers to drive a culture of ownership and engineering excellence within the teams.
- You’ll work closely product and business stakeholders to build innovative Sports features for our players.
- You’ll facilitate collaboration with other teams and solve problems across our Sports platform.
- You’ll act as a key decision maker across development and product teams, as well as a key stakeholder for quarterly roadmap commitments.
- You’ll empower your teams to be both delivery and production focused.
Who you are
- You have strong previous experience leading software development teams.
- You are passionate about transformational leadership and invested in developing both great engineers and great teams.
- You can set a clear strategy for your teams that services the short-term while delivering according to the long-term company direction.
- You are an excellent communicator and presenter.
- You have a software engineering background but have a particular affinity towards building high transactional backend systems, specifically with Golang and PostgreSQL.
- You possess an understanding of cloud infrastructure – Azure, AWS, GCP etc
- You are experienced in making technology decisions that set up the products you build for the future.
