Team Lead (Casino)

Overview of the Role

This role opening is for the Casino Squad within the Player Platform Tribe. Each tribe is composed of squads (typically 5-10 engineers) that focus on delivering features and services in their corresponding technical domain.  
 
The Team Lead is accountable for the technical and operational leadership of the squad. While continuing to foster a collaborative and supportive work culture, this role places strong emphasis on people's management, technical leadership and ownership, architectural direction, innovation, and reliable delivery.   

The Team Lead is a hands-on Technical Leader who combines deep engineering expertise with strong leadership, delivery drive, system ownership and collaboration skills. This role bridges the gap between technical strategy and day-to-day execution, driving engineering excellence, guiding the team in building scalable and performant solutions, and ensuring alignment with product goals and architectural standards. 

You’ll be both a mentor and a maker, leading by example in code quality, design, and decision-making, while empowering your team to deliver impactful, reliable, and well-crafted software. 

What you'll do:

Engineering People Management 

• Participate in the recruitment process with a focus on both technical proficiency and cultural fit. 

• Guide and mentor engineers to close technical skill gaps and build delivery capabilities aligned with business goals.  

• Directly manage engineers through regular 1:1s and performance reviews focused on evaluating and growth of technical skill sets, such as code quality, system design thinking, and problem-solving. 

• Foster a psychologically safe, collaborative, and technically curious team environment.  

• Manage scheduling, time off 

• Organize and participate in on-call rotations and app support to maintain service continuity. 

• Develop and motivate engineers through clear growth plans, ensuring clarity, accountability, and follow-ups. 

• Ensure the team consistently delivers roadmap items in alignment with the company’s vision and mission. 

• Measure team effectiveness using agreed metrics 

• Related duties as assigned 

Foster a Sustainable & Scalable Engineering Culture 

• Spend up to 50% of the time leading engineering, coding and delivering practices by example. Including technologies such as C#, .NET, NodeJS, PHP, Go, Groovy, Angular, React, Java, JavaScript and various libraries, and with tools, platforms, systems such as: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, BitBucket, SonarQube, Grafana, NPM, WildFly, Jetty, Nginx, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Ubuntu, Playwright, RestAssured and AWS which may be added to or changed per the business requirements. 

• Define and drive the technical vision, standards, and best practices for respective domain architecture, performance, and maintainability. 

• Remain hands-on, leading by example in coding, design, and code reviews. 

• Serve as the technical owner of the squad’s systems and applications, ensuring long-term reliability, scalability, testability, and maintainability. 

• Collaborate with other teams to design and evolve system interfaces, data contracts, and application flows. 

• Balance innovation with practicality by making architectural decisions that support immediate delivery and long-term sustainability. 

• Champion engineering best practices, clean code, modular design, semantic versioning, observability, and CI/CD automation. 

• Ensure adherence to SDLC principles in close partnership with Scrum Master, Product, QA, Delivery and Architects.  

• Manage and prioritize technical debt, codebase health, and aging risk. 

• Drive adoption of technical enablers such as: 

• Technical designs 

• Code reviews  

• Semantic versioning 

• Branching strategies 

• Static analysis tools  

• CI/CD automation  

• Testing and automation frameworks 

• Monitoring, observability, and alerting  

• And other as agreed in the engineering vertical 

• Ensure systems meet regulatory and compliance standards from technical perspective 

• Input into framework & language choice, development build and deployment tooling 

• Ensure backlog includes a healthy balance of new features and operational work, respecting SLA commitments 

• Related duties as assigned 
   

Champion Quality and Continuous Improvement 

• Lead planning, estimation, and prioritization of technical tasks ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables. 

• Contribute directly to coding, reviews, and debugging to ensure consistent standards. 

• Collaborate with QA, Architects, Product, DevOps and other teams to deliver high-quality, testable, and reliable software 

• Analise team effectiveness using agreed metrics 

• Lead technical expertise in incident management, root cause analysis, post incident decisions, and oversee any remedial work is carried out.  

• Set high standards in code reviews, refactoring, test automation, and architecture decisions. 

• Promote innovation, technical experimentation, and internal knowledge sharing. 

• Ensure Definition of Done is achieved, including documentation, testing, and observability. 

• Related duties as assigned 

Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication 

• Act as a technical point of contact for stakeholders, ensuring technical decisions are clearly communicated and well understood. 

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, and Engineering Managers to shape project goals, technical roadmaps, and delivery strategies. 

• Represent the technical domain discipline in tribe-level planning, design discussions, and architecture reviews. 

• Communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and dependencies transparently. 

• Related duties as assigned 

What you'll Bring:

Working Experience: 

• 6+ years of experience in building modern applications with at least 2 years in a lead or senior technical role. 

• Experience with mentoring or leading engineering teams and delivering large-scale application; 

• Experience working with high-performant SaaS products; 

• Experience working with cross functional teams in a technology domain. 

• Experience in developing and maintaining systems in the corresponding technical domain  

• Hands-on technical experience with technical enablers: CI/CD pipelines, code versioning and delivery, code quality tools, observability and others. 

Standard Qualifications: 

• Good understanding of agile and scrum methodologies; 

• Proficiency with Atlassian tools (especially JIRA & Confluence); 

• Advanced level of English Language. 

Technical Competences  

This part should be per team/squad 

It should be equivalent to senior level technical competences requirement 

Personal Attributes 

• Strong leadership  

• Strong mentorship that develops others and promotes knowledge sharing. 

• Technical excellence and a hands-on approach 

• Ownership, accountability, and delivery focus 

• Initiative, vision, and proactive problem-solving 

• Empathy, resilience, and the ability to make tough decisions 

• Effective communicator with solid negotiation and presentation skills 

• Analytical, fast-thinking, and structured reasoning 

• Strong adaptability that responds well to change and balances competing priorities. 

• Strong organizational and time management skills