Engineering Tech Lead - Brand Experience

About the Position

Engineering Tech Lead - Brand Experience

Athens, Greece

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, develop POCs for new ideas, and actively participate in key technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• 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, and 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 assess 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 organization.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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 / Signals).
• Highly knowledgeable and experienced with modern agile software development practices, GIT based projects, and CI/CD.
• Knowledge about web component frameworks (ex. StencilJS).
• Highly experienced and comfortable working with large-scale applications, including: SDK & FE components architecture, modularization, 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 optimizing 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.
• Communicates clearly and confidently with the engineering team, whether running training or knowledge transfer sessions, walking through requirements, or presenting technical designs.
• Communicates effectively upwards with Architects and the Head of Engineering, presenting technical proposals, trade-offs, and risks with clarity and sound reasoning.
• Is approachable and open, someone the team feels comfortable going to for guidance or support. A strong team player who builds trust, shares knowledge willingly, and contributes to a collaborative team culture.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience working with custom UI design system frameworks.
• A good understanding of front-end data tracking through Google Analytics / Google Tag Manager.
• A good understanding of AI Tooling and AIDLC practices. Helps driving AI Tooling adoption within the team in a responsible manner, building confidence and good habits. Applying sound judgment to AI-generated output, ensuring code quality and security is never compromised.
• Working experience with geographically distributed teams.

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 recognize 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 a multi-cultural and diverse company, with people from all over the world.

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