Chapter Lead

Company Description

We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

Job Description

Imagine being part of one of the most supportive communities you will encounter in your professional career. Imagine a company where ‘teamwork’ is not just a buzzword, but one of the core values of each employee. Imagine the place with huge emphasis on building own services using the quality-focused engineering practices and cloud-first principles. A place which will let you take your skills from good to great.  All while maintaining a good work‑life balance.

The Production department sits at the heart of Sportradar’s value creation, collecting and curating data for more than 80 sports across the globe. The Production department’s data set is the foundation for all services provided by Sportradar.
Join our team and become a part of the global, fast-growing success.

THE CHALLENGE:

Due to our success, we are continuously hiring motivated engineers in Production. We are looking to expand our engineering leadership group with a Senior Engineering Leader role:

• Help us grow and scale high performing durable teams that deliver products on top of our real-time sports data collected 24/7 globally for more than 30 different sports.

• Lead engineering consistency and alignment across multiple engineering teams.

• Manage, support and develop your reports.

• Have a real opportunity to influence and drive engineering decisions that positively impact our customers across the globe and the world of sports betting.

• Promote good engineering practices like TDD, BDD, SOLID techniques.

• Take an active part in making the most out of our AWS partnership.

• Calibrate performance and compensation for your part of department.

• Join the Engineering Leadership group and lead and drive actions in themes such as:

• SDLC alignment and improvement plans

• Objectives and Competencies

• Department Routines

• Cross Department Engagement

• Engineering Roadmap

• Department support functions like Security, DevOps, Sys Admins and Audit & Compliance.

YOUR PROFILE:

As a Senior Engineering Leader at Sportradar, you are responsible for the coaching and guidance of all the engineers within your organization. Your focus will be on the people and driving our organization to the next level of engineering excellence.
You will serve as a leader to nurture our culture of collaboration, communication, and coordination between and within teams.
Your experience has given you the perspective to help Software Engineers prioritize their tasks, shape their career decisions, and face tricky challenges. We  expect you to keep up to date with engineering best practices, making you better equipped when helping your employees decide what competencies they want to develop.
We need our engineers to be versatile, capable of mentoring and enthusiastic about taking on new challenges as we continue to push technology forward.
Your leadership will help your employees to reach their performance sweet spot. With the correct balance of fun, challenges, and focus, we are expecting high employee satisfaction. It is also important that each of them has a sustainable workload that will keep them engaged with Sportradar for the long term.

Required:

• A knack for effective and clear communication in all circumstances.

• Hands-on people and technical leadership experience.

• A passion for creating great products through collaboration and ingenuity.

• Extensive professional experience in software development with working on robust, complex systems that serve a high volume of users.

• Experience delivering software using agile work methodologies and frequent deployments.

• An appreciation for engineering best practices and quality over quantity of work.

• Proactive leadership approach, actively identifying any problems your engineers and teams might experience.

Desirable experience:

• Prior hands-on experience with technologies from our tech stack: AWS, Java,Kotlin,  Quarkus, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Protobuf or GRPC.

• Previous hands-on experience with software delivery and applying good engineering practices like TDD, BDD, SOLID, Clean Code.

OUR OFFER:

• A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US).

• Involvement in shaping your own workday and ca