Engineering Tech Lead - Brand Experience
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About the Position
Engineering Tech Lead - Brand Experience
Location: Malta
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.
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 and 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, 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 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
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 1700 strong, spread across 7 offices with 900 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognize it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator, and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.
About the Company
Join Betsson Group as an Engineering Tech Lead - Brand Experience, driving technical excellence in web applications.
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