BE Team Lead (Hands-on)

We are a product R&D company that creates solutions for the dynamic iGaming Ecosystem.

Our Mission is to create cutting-edge platforms to reinvent the iGaming industry.
 

Responsibilities:

• Leading and mentoring a team of backend engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence.
• Taking responsibility for the overall performance and delivery of the backend team, ensuring timely and high-quality outcomes.
• Supporting the growth and development of backend engineers through coaching, training, and career development initiatives.
• Writing backend code and tests as well as leveraging open source technologies to get reliable results.
• Improving code quality through testing, refactoring, peer-reviews.
• Working effectively in an agile team using Scrum, XP and Lean practices, e.g. participating in daily stand-ups, planning sessions, showcases and retrospectives;
• Collaborating with business stakeholders and internal users to design and deliver products that attract new customers and keep them coming back.
• Performing root cause analysis to ensure that mistakes are properly understood and not repeated.
• Production support, comprehensive metrics coverage, and robust logging.
• Driving best engineering practices, ensuring code quality, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Standing by your solutions to ensure that both you and the team have the tools and ability to support its operation after hours.
• Assisting in hiring, onboarding, and growing the engineering team.
   

Requirements:

• Experience in a leadership role, managing backend teams, ensuring high-quality deliverables, and fostering technical and professional growth.
• Extensive knowledge of Java, Spring and associated technologies: JUnit, Web Application Servers (e.g. Jetty/Tomcat), Gradle/Maven.
• Strong knowledge of MySQL and writing optimized database queries.
• Thorough understanding of architectural software concepts, Object-Oriented and Functional programming, MVC/MV* architectures, asynchronous server communication.
• Experience in the design and development of RESTful web services and JSON handling.
• Able to use Git and understand distributed version control strategies;
• Software craftsman, with a rigorous and disciplined approach to writing simple and effective software but not afraid to learn from failure and tell others about mistakes.
• Knowledgeable in web software architectures and design patterns.
• TDD, Refactoring.
• Ability to use the JIRA work management system.
• Have an aptitude and willingness to learn the business domain and new technologies.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.
   

Desirable:

• Familiar with Groovy, Spock, Hibernate, Spring Boot.
• Have used cloud services like AWS or Google App Engine.
• Experience of integrating backend services with NodeJS, Angular, Ionic or a similar framework for mobile site development.
• Knowledge of multi-threaded programming and concurrency.
• Track record of delivering scalable applications that are performant under high traffic volumes and leverage aCDN like Fastly.
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment with scripting languages.
   

Personal skills:

• Self Motivated team player.
• Reliable person in development.
• Keen to do things better.
• Strong communication and problem solving skills.
• Product goals-oriented.
   

Interview Stages:

1. HR Interview (45 minutes) — Initial conversation to discuss your experience, career goals, and cultural fit.
2. Technical Task (Optional)
3. Technical Interview (1.5 hours) — In-depth technical interview covering relevant skills.
4. Final Interview (1.5 hours) — A comprehensive discussion with the team, focusing on role-specific competencies and alignment with company values.
5. Job Offer
    

You will get:

• Competitive salary and Bonuses.
• Professional growth.
• Medical insurance.
• Wellbeing program.
• English courses.
• Team of motivated professionals.