OpenBet is sport. The world's top sports betting brands choose OpenBet as their partner for world-class content, leading tech, and tailored services. We have their back. So they’re ready with exciting, memorable, and safe sports betting experiences, to entertain millions of players worldwide.
OpenBet’s mission is to power growth and player engagement for operators through a global betting ecosystem that delivers at scale, at speed, at every great sports event. Our 1000 talented colleagues are the market's top team. We achieve billions of bets in a season; 60,000+ per second (more transactions than Amazon on Prime Day); 100% uptime (zero Superbowl crashes!) and we're built on 25 years of imaginative technology that is iterated daily.
OpenBet has established a premium client base of more than 75 operators worldwide and has 34 licenses across the fastest growing regulated sports betting markets in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The team is growing at scale driven by accelerated demand for our products and significant investment. We offer the speed, dynamism, and growth opportunities of a start-up, underpinned by the stability and strength of a global employer.
Working at OpenBet every day is an opportunity for you to create exciting betting entertainment for millions of sports fans across the globe.
Want to be part of our evolving future growth?
The Development Lead role will be a key one in one of our OpenBet product development teams. A Development Lead will be working alongside other Development Leads, Development Managers, Programme and Project Managers, Software Architects and Senior Software Engineers in order to shape and implement the technology and people vision of the team that will drive forward OpenBet's Sportsbook platform initiatives..
A “can do” attitude and out-of-the-box thinking will be prerequisites!
Key Accountabilities
- Quality of the implementation and deployment of development work.
- Security, capacity and performance of delivered applications and services.
- Planning, implementation and evolution of technical processes and feedback to the wider company.
- Adherence to development best practice, notably around CI / CD and Quality Engineering standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Line management of a small to medium development team composed of 1-2 streams including Software Engineers, Senior Software Engineers and Quality Assurance.
- Supporting the recruitment of technical staff onto teams.
- Key stakeholder liaison and alignment with senior people in the OpenBet organisation, from Product teams to Operations and Architecture.
- Take a lead in shaping software engineering practices and processes on the projects, working in various flavours of Agile.
- Motivating and driving the team with technical leadership and vision.
- Ensuring every deliverable has agreed SLAs, which are both demonstrable and monitored against defined KPIs.
Knowledge & Experience:
- Ideally 6+ years commercial hands-on software development experience in a previous role plus a minimum of 2 years’ experience managing teams of highly technical staff;
- Exceptional managerial and leadership skills, able to motivate and lead personal development plans for employees as well as driving change and handling difficult and complex project development activities both internally and externally;
- Proven communication and presentation skills;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
- Should be opinionated, especially about quality.
Technical skills of relevance:
- Strong knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies, particularly MySQL and PostgreSQL;
- Demonstrable experience with TDD and / or BDD;
- Extensive experience is the use of Docker, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar and Git (BitBucket);
- Some experience of Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns would be helpful.
- Hands-on experience in developing microservices or working in an SoA or DDD architecture would be an asset,
Additional Information
Why would you enjoy working with us at OpenBet?
- Competitive benefits, including pension plan and private insurance for you and your family members as well as extra leave days for volunteering and other purposes.
- The opportunity to work within a truly international Company, where you can expect the diversity and the opportunities of the world, mixed with a people friendly culture.
- A wide palette of training opportunities and internal and external learning sources, from onboarding, to on-the-job training by our subject matter experts.
- As a software house, we have a relaxed but highly professional environment with excellent facilities available, including on-site canteen & gym, showers, video, board and electronic sports games as well as lending library.
- We love to get together and throw a number of group events, to celebrate new comers, enjoy some good meals together and show off our sport talents as part of company tournaments (basketball, table tennis and others!).
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