Betsson Group is now looking for a Head of Engineering within the Engagement Domain in the Budapest hub. 

The WoW

As the Head of Engineering (Engagement), you will provide leadership for our engineering teams working on our Engagement product vertical. You will be accountable for the delivery, in terms of both time and quality, of all engineering teams working in the domain. You will work closely with your product counterparts on executing the roadmap, whilst driving technical excellence in terms of code quality, stability, scalability, and security.

  A taster of what you will be involved with:  

• Build and lead a high performing, top class engineering organisation covering multiple teams, setting out proper strategies towards this goal.
• Support, mentor and coach the engineering managers and leads. Collaborate with the architecture team and actively support their direction to drive the technical vision and enable the future state architectural design of the domain.
• Work closely with your product counterparts to develop, support and execute on product roadmaps and towards shared goals. Champion technical initiatives for consideration in the product development roadmap.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the gaming industry, performing competitor analysis, staying up-to-date with trends, emerging technologies.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and collaboration within the team, promoting best practices in software engineering and agile methodologies.
• Drive the delivery of initiatives across the teams, ensuring that we are maximising the potential of our people and their delivery.
• Ensure the platform's reliability, security, and scalability by proactively addressing potential risks and performance bottlenecks.
• Manage engineering budgets, resources, and timelines effectively, delivering projects on time and within scope.
• Develop and implement metrics and KPIs to monitor platform performance, driving data-driven decision-making and improvements.
• Identify and address technical and process bottlenecks. Set an example in taking responsibility and ownership, which may also mean stepping in to any missing role as and when may be required.

 

Main Stakeholders:

• Head of Product, Product Managers & Product Owners
• Architects
• Other Engineering Teams 

 

You have experience in:

• Building and leading high performing engineering teams, with at least 2 years’ experience in a senior / strategic engineering leadership role.
• A strong background in software engineering, preferably having 10+ years’ experience working in engineering roles.
• Demonstrated experience in nurturing and coaching engineering leaders.
• Passionate about technology and how it can enable business growth and opportunities, in particular in how it satisfies user needs.
• Experience and understanding of agile practices and techniques for developing products.
• Confident working in a complex technical environment with hands-on experience working with highly available and high load transactional systems, with the ability to drive focus on performance, scalability and security.
• Experience in defining OKRs and KPIs, working with data to understand system(s) performance and the outcomes of product development.
• Proven ability to lead analyses and evaluations for complex decisions.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus.
• A humble and inspirational leader who leads by example and fosters a culture of ownership and collaboration.
• Strong organisational, planning and project management skills.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to present effectively to C-Level.
• Professional working proficiency in English. 

 

Nice to have:

• Relevant working experience in the gaming industry.
• Experience working with remote / geographically distributed
• Familiarity with AI/ML technologies used in Marketing.
• Experience in working with and managing third-party suppliers.

  What’s in it for you?

At Betsson, we offer an annual compensation in January, to cover the devaluation of the Hungarian forint in the previous year.

We care about your health, we provide gym subsidy, health insurance (Medicover), life and accident insurance, discounted in-house masseuse and fruits.

We support your career growth with free Pluralsight account and training budget. Our developers are sharing know-how every month on our Devsson forum, and also have an internal mobility program so after a certain time you can try other teams or even locations. You can try yourself as a Meetup speaker or Hackathon organiser, we regularly host events to invite people to learn more about cutting-edge tech topics, best-practices, and innovative pet-projects.

Regular after-work and team events thanks to our proactive colleagues. We have movie nights, poker events, board game nights,… if you have other ideas, we really want to hear them! Last, but not least Betsson provides team building budget for each team in every quarter for team activities…it is up to you what you want to do!

Breakfast on Mondays and Wednesdays, sweets, snack, and beers Friday afternoons.

Mobile phone device (latest model of iPhone or Samsung) and subscription for personal use with 50 GB internet and free calls in EU!

We work in a hybrid model which allows you to work 2 times a week from home, and on Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays from the office.

 

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