Sportsbook - Engineering Manager

Full Time
9 months ago

Are you a natural born problem solver? Do you thrive on delivering value with every decision you take? The Sportsbook Area with Product Development is now hiring! We have a world-class Sportsbook, developed in-house by our dedicated Sportsbook tech team. Our Sportsbook Platform is ours – from our Architecture to our Trading teams – we have an in-house platform which hosts our brands offering Sportsbetting for our customers. From the tools our traders use to the cutting edge features our customers use to bet on various sports – our teams are the backbone to making this happen! 

The Wow

Our Engineering Manager will help manage the development teams to ensure accurate delivery of high quality software against an agreed development roadmap. The Development Manager is ultimately responsible for the development process, code quality, performance, and operational stability of the products. The ideal candidate will be a coach, mentor, and leader that inspires and motivates the teams to deliver high quality solutions according to business requirements. Maintaining an open channel of communication with all the moving parts of the sportsbook (Dev teams, Product teams, Trading Operations, External Providers and Partners).

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 doing
  • Responsible for teams and central roles within the Sportsbook Area
  • Promoting and facilitating continuous improvement/development within teams and the communication between them (UX, PO/PM, Dev, TL, DBA, DevOps and more);
  • Ensuring synchronization between teams is always at the forefront; 
  • You will be building and coaching the area, in collaboration with other EMs of the area and the Head of Area, in order to deliver on the goals and user needs set for the area with a lean and genuinely agile mindset;
  • 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;
  • 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

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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