Sportsbook - Engineering manager

Full Time
Budapest
11 months ago
The Wow

As an Engineering Manager at Betsson Group, your primary responsibilities will be geared towards building and leading high-performing engineering teams, meaning a lot of your focus will be on our most important asset – our people! You will work closely with your product and design counterparts on the planning and scoping of the product development roadmap, where you will be accountable for the engineering teams’ delivery. You will also be expected to take ownership and responsibility for the technical stability and performance of the applications under the tutelage of your teams. 

Learn the true meaning of “never a dull moment” and “all hands on deck”; You will be surrounded by people who are highly motivated and passionate about what they do, and look forward to learning and sharing ideas. We are constantly pushing the limits of what our Sportsbook can do and you will be part of that journey; helping us overcome the challenges along the way and celebrate the successes. 

  A taster of what you will be involved with: 
  • Build and lead high-performing engineering teams. 
  • Responsible for teams and central roles within the Sportsbook Area 
  • Ensuring synchronization between teams is always at the forefront;  
  • Ensure that the teams work as “one unit”, while keeping their autonomy and self-sufficiency as agile teams. 
  • Foster an engineering culture of ownership, collaboration, and passion for delivering quality products. 
  • Drive the continuous optimisation and improvement of team and development processes. 
  • Take ownership for resolving situations hindering the performance of the teams. 
  • Helping the Head of Area to create the best possible culture to ensure high-quality delivery of our products.  
  What we are looking for:
  • Deep understanding and interest in lean and agile principles for product development; 
  • Leadership and management experience, understanding on how R&D operates in an agile environment; 
  • Strong people management & leadership skills; 
  • FE Development experience. 
  • Proven experience of risk management & mitigation; 
  • Strong communication & negotiation skills with the ability to influence senior business executives on agile culture and best practices; 
  • Demonstrated ability to build effective teams, motivate, direct and coach;
  • Ability to work in a high pace and a high velocity environment;
  • Ability to manage organizational transformations. 
  What we offer

Apart from competitive salary:

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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