Lead Backend Engineer

As a Lead Backend Engineer, your role involves providing guidance and support to development teams throughout the planning, design, development, and delivery phases of enterprise-level software solutions. Your profound technical proficiency, combined with a comprehensive understanding of the industry, will play a crucial role in guaranteeing the appropriateness, scalability, flexibility, and resilience of our software solutions.

In your role, you will spearhead a team of talented developers working on an award winning platform across multiple jurisdictions. You will oversee the whole lifecycle of the projects they undertake whilst coaching and inspiring them to reach their goals. As a Technical Lead you should always be learning to be able to spot problems fast, be accountable, trustworthy, and be able to build long lasting relationships, both within and outside the team. The chosen candidate will emphasize the importance of fast time to market, operational scalability, and automation to accelerate the platform’s growth and market entries.

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining a productive working environment for development teams
• Leverage a good understanding of the igaming industry, provider/operator environment,operator pain points, and translate them into architectural solutions
• Working hand in hand with Solutions Architects and other Technical Leads; mediating technical debates, participating in building solutions for performance optimisations, and leading discussions on decisions that might constrain or broaden future architectural choices
• Design, develop and document the technical architecture of our products, considering scalability, performance, security, and integration requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to the development teams throughout the software development lifecycle
• Evaluate and recommend technology stacks, frameworks, and third-party tools to support the development and deployment of our software solution.
• Drive the adoption of best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns to ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and scalable software.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in both the igaming industry, and software architecture.

Mandatory Requirements:

• Extensive experience developing solutions in the B2B software industry within the igaming space
• At least 15 years of software development experience, with at least 3 years experience as a leader with a focus on C# and .NET.
• Someone able to demonstrate the use of the latest .NET Technologies (.NET Core, .NET6, WebAPI).
• Strong knowledge and hands on experience with event driven architectures and microservice architectures
• Expertise in designing and deploying applications on Kubernetes
• Strong experience with SQL including profiling and database design
• Experience with caching objects using Redis
• Experience with client/server or N-tier architectures
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex technical requirements and propose effective solutions
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A passion for technology and a continuous learning mindset to stay updated with the latest industry trends and advancements

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of common operator and platform requirements, including both regulatory and operational requirements
• Proficiency in leveraging open-source technologies to reduce operational costs and enhance product capabilitiesExperience with automation tools and practices, including CI/CD pipelines Solid understanding of observability principles and tools.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as NUnit or XUnit

• Great career development opportunities
• Hybrid working model
• International Health Insurance
• Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
• Birthday Day Off
• Me Time - 1 day off per year