Frontend Engineering Tech Lead

The Wow

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:

Your main goal is ultimately to drive technical excellence in the domain - in particular towards improving stability, performance, code quality, and development efficiency. To this end, you will be expected to:

• 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.

• Lead technical trainings to share knowledge and improve technical expertise within the teams.

What we are looking for

• A strong technical background in software engineering for web applications.

• Highly knowledgeable and experienced with TypeScript / JavaScript and Web Markup (CSS3/HTML5).

• A deep understanding of Observable technologies (preference for RxJS).

• Highly experienced and comfortable working with large scale applications, including: SDK & FE components architecture, modularisation, efficient application bundling, unit testing, and integrating with backend APIs.

• Expertise in delivering highly performant web solutions on an international scale, with preference given to implementing SSR mechanisms and optimising content delivery with CDNs, caching, and other solutions surrounding front-end applications.

• Possess demonstrated working experience in defining and documenting technical solutions around front-end architecture and its integration with backend services.

• Ability to efficiently review PRs and provide constructive feedback.

• 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, GIT based projects, and CI/CD.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge about web component frameworks (ex. StencilJS) is preferred, but not mandatory.

• Prior working experience with Angular 2+.

• Prior experience working with custom UI design system frameworks.

• A good understanding of front-end data tracking through Google Analytics / Google Tag Manager.

• Working experience with geographically distributed teams.

Who We Are

Betsson Group is one of the largest companies within the Global iGaming space and can trace our heritage as far back as the 1960’s. We’re Swedish and publicly listed too with our Operational HQ located on the Mediterranean Island of Malta.

We strive to deliver the best customer experience in the industry. As a market leader within iGaming we offer online gaming products across 12+ jurisdictions and 20+ brands.

You will be part of a passionate team, which is building an industry leading, scalable, multi-brand platform used by hundreds of thousands of our customers!Where you'll be

At Betsson Group we work with a Hybrid Work From Home (WFH) model, giving you the flexibility of working 3 days in the office and 2 days at home.

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 in.

We offer numerous challenges where your skills will be put to good use! We encourage innovation, independence and celebrate success where you will be part of multi-cultural and diverse company, with people from all over the world.

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