Tech Lead (Backend) - Sportsbetting

As a Tech Lead, you will manage a team of engineers, ensuring smooth delivery within a Scrum framework. You will mentor team members, enforce best practices, be responsible for your team’s quality output, and actively contribute to improving development processes. You will also write code and pick up user stories to keep your team on track. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, ownership of technical excellence, and the ability to drive high-quality deliverables. 

What You Will Do: 

• Develop, implement, and maintain best practices and standards that drive higher quality and operational excellence within your team. 

• Advocate for and oversee the delivery of high-quality software, which is easily maintained due to high unit test coverage and reliable end to end automation coverage. 

• Perform quality control by ensuring effective code reviews and addressing technical debt alongside product development. 

• Collaborate with Solutions Architects to create and review architectural documentation. 

• Track your team’s technical debt and advocate for time to address technical issues alongside product development. 

• Ensure adherence to Agile/Scrum best practices throughout delivery in partnership with the Delivery Lead. 

• Collaborate with Product in planning activities, including sizing of work, identifying risks and dependencies, and assigning out user stories to team members. 

• Directly contribute to team efforts by developing user stories each sprint. 

• Support developers through refinement, breaking down requirements into technical tasks, user story creation, and providing estimations. Push back on unrealistic timelines as needed. 

• Hold the team accountable throughout delivery, ensuring that the team follows appropriate processes. 

• Report out on progress against prioritized initiatives to stakeholders. Regularly communicate engineering risks and dependencies. 

• Support the team in feature readiness, including preparing for releases and deployments 

• Act as the direct manager of a team of engineers. Conduct regular 1:1s, provide mentorship, and deliver constructive feedback to foster team growth. 

• Support hiring and people management processes. 

What You Will Need: 

• 5+ years of progressive experience as a software engineer, preferably within a high growth product tech environment. 

• Proven ability to train, mentor, and guide engineers. 

• Demonstrated bias to action and ownership over key initiatives. 

• Extensive highly competent engineering experience in Java, Spring Framework (Springboot specifically) Quarkus, and OR. 

• Extensive engineering experience utilizing AWS (Amazon Web Services). 

• Extensive engineering experience in Building and maintaining APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). 

• Experience in designing software architecture at scale. 

• Must possess a test driven mindset. 

• Experience with OLTP systems. 

• Experience with Kafka and NRT messaging platforms. 

• Expertise in Agile software product delivery and Scrum. 

• Strong delivery mind-set. 

• 1+ year experience managing software engineers preferred.  

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 At Caesars Sportsbook, we believe all our Team Members should be treated like Caesars. It’s the mantra we were founded on, and the standard that drives us to provide our customers with best-in-class service.

 As we continue to Blaze The Trail with our Caesars Sportsbook & Casino app, the expansion of our Caesars Sportsbook retail locations, our World Series of Poker franchise, our William Hill legacy brand, and partnerships with the biggest names in sports and entertainment, we’re creating new and exciting opportunities for you to be a part of our empire and make an impact.

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