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 / 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 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.
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

Great if you 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 judgement to AI generated output, ensuring code quality and security is never compromised.
Working experience with geographically distributed teams.

What 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 recognise 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.

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