Tech Lead - Betting Engine

As a Tech Lead, you will manage a team of engineers responsible for the development and enhancement of our Betting Engine, ensuring the smooth delivery of high-quality, real-time, and scalable features within a Scrum framework. This role blends hands-on technical contributions with team leadership, mentoring, and driving best practices. You will be responsible for your team’s technical excellence, output, and process improvement while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver on business objectives in the fast-paced world of sports betting. 

This role is a hybrid role where employees must be on-site 2-3 days per week. Candidates also must be willing to travel on-site to complete onboarding orientation as dictated by the hiring team.

Home Office: Jersey City, NJ

What You Will Do 

• Develop, implement, and maintain best practices and standards to ensure the betting engine is reliable, scalable, and performant. 
• Advocate for and oversee the delivery of high-quality, test-automated code tailored to the unique needs of the betting engine. 
• Perform quality control through code reviews, ensure resolution of technical debt, and balance product development with system improvements. 
• Collaborate with Solutions Architects to create and review technical designs and architectural documentation before engaging your team. 
• Partner with the Delivery Lead to ensure adherence to Agile/Scrum best practices, focusing on delivering features critical to betting engine operations. 
• Directly contribute to sprints by picking up user stories, assisting with refinement, and breaking down technical tasks to keep the team on track. 
• Collaborate with Product and Delivery Leads to size work, identify risks and dependencies, and assign user stories to team members. 
• Hold the team accountable for delivery, pushing back on unrealistic timelines when needed, and ensuring processes are followed throughout development. 
• Report on progress against key initiatives, communicate risks, and manage dependencies to stakeholders. 
• Support the team in preparing for feature readiness, deployments, and releases in the betting engine ecosystem. 
• Act as the direct manager of your engineering team, conducting regular 1:1s, providing mentorship, and delivering constructive feedback to foster growth. 
• Support hiring and people management initiatives to build a high-performing team.  

What You Will Need 

• 5+ years of progressive experience as a software engineer, preferably within high-growth or real-time systems like betting or transactional platforms. 
• Proven ability to mentor, guide, and develop engineers with 1+ year experience managing software engineers preferred. 
• Extensive engineering experience in: 
• Scala and related frameworks 
• Building and maintaining APIs for high-throughput, real-time applications. 
• Utilizing AWS for cloud-native architectures. 
• Kafka and other NRT messaging platforms. 
• OLTP systems critical to real-time transaction processing. 
• Relational and non-relational databases like Cassandra, Redis, Postgresql 
• Observability tools like Splunk and NewRelic 
• Experience designing software architecture for scalable, distributed systems. 
• Strong expertise in Agile product delivery and Scrum methodologies. 
• Demonstrated bias toward action and ownership over key initiatives with a delivery-focused mindset. 

 

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