Software Development Team Lead, UI Core

Company Description

At bet365, we're one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 9,000 people and serve over 100 million customers in 27 languages. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe, we handle over 6 billion HTTP requests daily and process more than 2 million bets per hour at peak.

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of opportunities for growth, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what’s possible for our customers worldwide.

Job Description

As a Software Development Team Leader, you will help to drive innovation, mentor top talent, and shape the future of our platform with cutting-edge technology.

The UI core team is responsible for developing, enhancing and supporting our online transactional processes platform. This includes the delivery of real time content across multiple devices, the Sports website, mobile and tablet products, and up to and including the processing and settlement of transactions driven from that content.

You will be responsible for building and leading a team of front and backend developers of varying experience and skillsets. You will measure quality and delivery, contribute to and drive improvements, whilst ensuring that the team remain skilled, engaged and empowered, and that our processes and technology are efficient and fit for purpose.

The team operates as a full stack team. Core skills within the team are Golang, React and Typescript. The tech stack also covers Nodejs, HTML5 and CSS 3.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience with leading development teams in the delivery of high quality software applications in client or service side application development.
• Passionate about working with technology and software development processes and practices.
• Experience with React, Typescript, Golang or other server side technologies.
• Adaptable, with the ability to lead a team to ensure the best outcome for the Business.
• Knowledge of mobile technologies.
• Experience with performance testing.
• Knowledge of service orientated architecture.
• Exposure to multiple software development methodologies.
• Experience with or exposure to Cloud technologies such as GCP, GKE or SAAS.
• Exposure to generative artificial intelligence and large language models.

Additional Information

• Assisting in driving the provision of a capable, reactive, motivated and delivery focused team.
• Enforcing governance of quality, rules, standards and processes to ensure solutions meet Business requirements.
• Ensuring the development process is conducted in a timely fashion.
• Planning and tracking works actively, as prioritised by the product, project and development management.
• Gaining a good understanding of the technical structure, domain and architecture of the systems that the team are responsible for.
• Identifying and mitigating risk.
• Removing blockers to delivery.
• Working through dependencies.
• Mentoring members of the team and ensuring distribution of knowledge.
• Inputting developer appraisals and other performance feedback.

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At bet365, we're committed to creating an environment where everyone feels welcome, respected and valued. Where all individuals can grow and develop, regardless of their background. We're Never Ordinary, and we're always striving to be better. If you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please don’t hesitate to reach out.