Java Team Lead

Are you excited about shaping the future of sports betting technology? Join the Sportsbook team and contribute to our in-house Sportsbook platform that hosts multiple brands. Our sophisticated system leverages Java for robust development, Kafka for real-time data streaming, and Spring Boot for creating powerful services. You’ll work with various live sports feed integrations and utilise RabbitMQ for efficient message handling. 

Our platform is engineered for high performance, ensuring high availability and scalability to handle high throughput and peak loads. We also prioritise rigorous performance testing to maintain superior reliability and speed. 

If you’re passionate about cutting-edge technology and want to make a significant impact in the sports betting industry, we want to hear from you!"

When it comes to being successful at Sportserve, there's more to it than just being really good at the technical stuff. It's also your ability to be an awesome problem solver. And here's the thing, we totally get that we can't all be experts in everything, right? So, it's all about having that thirst for knowledge and being passionate about learning. You'll also need amazing attention to detail, so if something seems off, you won't rest until you've figured out what's going on. We see ourselves as a cool group of people who love coming up with new ideas and making things happen. As long as you have a true passion for creating awesome stuff, you'll fit right in.

What you'll be getting up to: 

• Lead a development team which consists of developers and QA engineers.
• Actively contribute to development, maintenance and support of the project.
• Complete tasks & deliver projects on-time and to the highest standards.
• Make sound architectural designs and decisions, and lead the technical aspect of projects in agreement with the Architect.
• Liaise with architects, Product Owners, business representatives, infrastructure specialists to jointly develop proposals for technical solutions including implementation deployment, support and troubleshooting overviews.
• Liaise with POs and business stakeholders to understand the problems they wish to address.
• Understand all technologies used in the team and be able to assist where needed.
• Work together with frontend development teams to ensure a coherent and efficient approach and design.
• Keep a constant critical eye out for new technologies that can improve our way of work.
• Scope and conduct needed Proof of Concepts when necessary.
• Contribute with ideas for making the application better and easier to use.
• Work according to Agile development team (Scrum) practices.
• Provide assistance to developers/projects as needed, mentor less experienced team members.
• Critically analyse incidents affecting the team’s product, in order to decide where and what improvements are needed.
• Take into consideration the people and motivational aspects of a team in order to build ownership and engagement within it.
• Collaborate, share ideas, and lead initiatives within the Leadership team of the Department in order to continuously improve our ways of working.
• Participate in the recruitment effort as technical interviewers and ensure that new colleagues are up to the expected standard from a hard and soft skills point of view.
• Take part in application support rota (on-call).
• Be flexible to support your applications outside of working hours during major sport events (in rota with your peers and team mates).

Required general skills and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any related technical field.
• Experienced servant leader able to bring people together as a team.
• Passion for producing high quality, rock solid software.
• Ability to build and keep motivation and engagement within the team.
• Ability to organise and manage multiple priorities.
• Able to delegate work whenever possible and when reasonable.
• Creative, analytical, and with strong problem solving skills.
• Easy learner, motivated to obtain new skills and grow professionally.
• Independent but collaborative, driven, assertive.
• At least 5 years of work experience as Java developer working on varied types of software development projects.
• Good oral and written English communication skills.

Required tech skills and experience:

• Expert knowledge of Java 11+ and Spring ecosystem.
• Solid knowledge of SQL, preferably with MySQL database.
• Experience in working with Java-based ORMs (know when to use them, when not to).
• Experience designing and building RESTful web service APIs and REST API clients.