The Sportsbook Area is now hiring! Our world-class Sportsbook is fully developed in-house by our dedicated Sportsbook tech team and growing at a very rapid rate, expanding not only in new markets but also as a B2B product serving and offering a sports betting platform in different regions of the world. Our Product Development organisation is a cross functional one with teams spanning across 5 different Tech Hubs - in Malta, Budapest, Stockholm, Tallinn and Athens.

The Wow

Much like a rollercoaster, life at Betsson Group is fast-paced, full of twists and turns, and always exciting. With more than 2,800 colleagues representing over 75 nationalities across a global network of offices - including 1,500 at our operational headquarters in Malta - every day brings new challenges and opportunities to grow. It may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you thrive on innovation, enjoy pushing boundaries and want to be part of a diverse, international team, then you’ll fit right in at Betsson.

Our sportsbook platform is fully developed and operated in-house – from architecture and engineering to the trading operations. It powers more than 20 brands, delivering a comprehensive sports betting experience to our customers. From the internal tools used by our trading teams to the cutting-edge features that enhance the customer betting journey, our platform is built and maintained by dedicated, high-performing teams.

Our mission is to deliver industry-leading performance, functionality, and user experience within the iGaming space.

As part of our Sportsbook Technology team, you will contribute to a high-performance, high-throughput, and highly available product ecosystem. You will play a key role in ensuring that the team consistently delivers measurable business value while maintaining technical excellence.

A taster of what you will be doing

As a Tech Lead you will be part of the Sportsbook B2B & Integrations Value stream, participating in design, POCs and development of complex tasks and also a key person in the team who ensures a high-quality delivery by the developers.
Work closely with architects within the area to ensure that the architecture direction set is being communicated, aligned & implemented within the teams.
You will also be aligning with the other tech leads across the product development department to ensure the technical consistency, take ownership of and drive technical excellence initiatives within Sportsbook.
Identify technical improvements in the applications you are responsible for.
Validate technical improvements and help Product Managers prioritise such improvements
Be able to explain the benefits of technical improvements to both technical and non-technical audience.
You will also participate in development, testing, code reviews, bug fixing, implementing new features as well as maintaining and improving the existing functionality.
Help build our world class team, thus participating in technical interviews as well as coaching & mentoring engineers.
Stay up to date with technology, understand the benefits and use cases of a variety of technologies and be strategic in their implementation.

What we are looking for

Someone who is passionate about building things, with a strong technical background and an understanding of non-functional requirements.
Expertise with designing and implementing distributed microservices
Deep understanding of the latest C# and .NET framework/core.
Experience deploying scalable back-end solutions using AWS/Azure/GCP.
Expertise with distributed systems and high-speed database technologies, including SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
Familiarity with messaging systems, message queues, and event-driven architecture.
Knowledge of containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
Deep understanding of coding best practices.
You are a team player who readily offers help and shares knowledge with your colleagues.
You are someone who is pro-active and love to not only to suggest improvements but also drive them.

Reporting

The employee reports to the Engineering Manager.

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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