Are you an experienced Frontend Software Engineer with team lead experience and ready for your next challenge? The Payments Engineering Area is hiring! Payments Engineering is responsible for building the best payment customer experience from payment pages perspective and improving the offering of amount of payment options on brands and markets that we operate within. We are an international team with some of the best people in the industry! If you passionate about the latest technologies and can handle company-critical responsibilities, then this is the role for you!
Betsson Group offers online gaming products to customers and partners all over the world and aim to deliver the best customer experience in the industry. With more than 25+ iGaming brands including Betsson.com, Betsafe.com, Nordicbet.com; offering Sportsbook, Casino and Poker, we’re proud of our successes.
And now we are hiring a Team Lead Frontend in Malta! Keeping our eyes on the best talents and experts who can use their creativity and passion to create seamless, intuitive and engaging online gaming experiences.
What you will be doing:
As a Front End Team Lead at Betsson Group, you will lead a team of talented people and take overall responsibility for team performance. As the Team Lead, you will take an active role in driving the delivery of your team and promoting a healthy team spirit and culture. You will also ensure each individual in the team is given the platform to succeed and a high level of support in their career development. Our ethos is that to effectively lead a team, you need to actively participate in its activities, and therefore you will be expected to be a hands-on member of the team.
- Build a high performing team with the right mix of skills and knowledge through recruitment, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and continuous improvement.
- Direct line management of people in the team, being accountable for their performance, satisfaction and career development planning.
- Drive and facilitate the team’s delivery to production in terms of both time and quality, taking responsibility to ensure the team makes commitments and lives up to expectations.
- Foster a team culture of ownership, collaboration, and passion for delivering quality products.
- Motivate the team to maintain high technical standards, in particular when it comes to ensuring reliability and up time.
- Collaborate with the wider technical leadership in ensuring the team follows architectural direction and for general alignment on ways of working.
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, knowledge sharing, planning and conflict resolution in the team.
- Ensure that team processes and routines are defined, organised, and continuously reviewed and optimised, aligning with other teams as much as possible.
- Take responsibility for resolving or escalating impediments to team performance.
- Serve as the main point of contact for the team, facilitating open communication and co-ordination with other teams as and when required.
- Ensure all administrative tasks related to the team are performed in a timely manner.
- Ensure all roles in the team are well defined and communicated, with the ability to delegate responsibilities to team members.
- Be an active member of the team, with the expectation that your time would be split 50/50 (on average) between team leadership activities and technical work.
- Assist your line manager in any matters that may be further delegated to you from time to time.
What we are looking for:
- A strong technical background in software engineering for web applications.
- Experienced and passionate about coaching and mentoring people, preferably having done so in a similar role.
- Ability to efficiently review PRs and provide constructive feedback.
- Highly knowledgeable and experienced with TypeScript / JavaScript and Web Markup (CSS3/HTML5).
- A good understanding of Observable technologies (preference for RxJS)
- Experienced and comfortable working with large scale applications, including: SDK & FE components architecture, modularisation, efficient application bundling, unit testing, and integrating with backend APIs.
- Prior working experience in delivering highly performant web solutions on an international scale, with preference given to implementing SSR mechanisms and optimising content delivery with CDNs, caching, and other solutions surrounding front-end applications.
- Highly knowledgeable and experienced with modern agile software development practices, GIT based projects, and CI/CD.
Would be great to also possess:
- Experience delivering software as an Agile Lead / Scrum Master / Team Lead in a technically complex environment.
- Knowledge about web component frameworks (ex. StencilJS).
- Prior working experience with Angular 2+.
- Working experience with geographically distributed teams.
- Prior experience in the gaming industry.
- A humble and inspirational leader who leads by example and fosters a culture of ownership and collaboration.
- Strong organisational and planning skills, with a strong focus on execution and delivery.
- Clear verbal & written communication, able to explain technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
- Professional working proficiency in English.
What we offer
To be part of the success story of one of the fastest growing companies in the iGaming market, all our employees in Malta would avail from:
- A competitive salary and benefits such as health insurances and gym subsidies
- A fun and challenging role in a helpful and dynamic environment. For the right person there are many different career paths at Betsson, both if you want to deepen your technical skills or work in a leadership role in the future.
- You will be working with web applications dealing with high traffic reaching worldwide audience
We would also very much like to reward your efforts with a number of external and internal events like Monday breakfasts, free coffee and fruit and regular after-work events and much more!
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