Senior Chapter Lead/Senior Engineering 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

Location(s): 

• Poland (Warsaw, Wrocław)
• Slovakia (Bratislava)

OVERVIEW:

Imagine being part of one of the most supportive communities you will encounter in your professional career. Imagine the 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. The place where you can become great at things you’re currently good at. All that while maintaining work‑life balance. 

The ‘Odds Tribe’ in Sportradar offers popular trading services, used by over 200 organizations worldwide. Our team of experts manage betting probabilities using our leading edge mathematical models. Our clients can control their own sportsbooks in web interfaces, configuring everything from event and odds creation to market monitoring and result confirmation. 

At Sportradar, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture and community. We partner with organizations and serve a customer base that is widely diverse. To best meet the needs of our partners and customers, we believe in ensuring our current and future employees feel empowered to bring forward their unique selves, opinions and viewpoints. 

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 the Odds department. However, the current engineering leadership setup is not scaling well with our growth rate.

Our solution is to expand the engineering leadership group with a Senior Chapter Lead/Engineering Leader role:

• Help us grow and scale high performant 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 - Engineering Leaders. 
• 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. 
• Become a domain expert in the exciting world of real-time hi-tech sports data. 
• Split your time between 60% People Leadership and 40% Engineering Leadership. 
• 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 both the leadership of the Engineering Leaders, but also the coaching and guidance of all the engineers within your organization. You are comfortable being hands-on, but this role does not require it. Your focus will be on the people and driving our organization to the next level of engineering excellence. 

You will serve as leader to nurture our culture of collaboration, communication, and coordination between and within teams. 

Prior to taking on engineering management and leadership, you were a senior individual contributor with a comprehensive understanding of complex systems that you were a vital part of developing & launching over the years. 

Your experience has given you the perspective to help Software Engineers prioritize their tasks, shape their career decisions, and face tricky challenges. We are also expecting 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