Frontend Engineering Team Lead - Gaming

Are you a Frontend Developer or a Team Lead looking to further develop your leadership skills? If so, Betsson Group is currently hiring! We are seeking a Frontend Team Lead to join our Malta office and lead our exceptional team. 

The Wow 

As a Frontend End Team Lead at Betsson Group, you will lead a team of talented people and take overall responsibility for team performance. As the Team Lead, you will take an active role in driving the delivery of your team and promoting a healthy team spirit and culture. You will also ensure everyone in the team is given the platform to succeed and a high level of support in their career development. Our ethos is that to effectively lead a team, you need to actively participate in its activities, and therefore you will be expected to be a hands-on member of the team.

A taster of what you will be involved with

• Build a high performing team with the right mix of skills and knowledge through recruitment, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and continuous improvement.
• Direct line management of people in the team, being accountable for their performance, satisfaction, and career development planning.
• Drive and facilitate the team’s delivery to production in terms of both time and quality, taking responsibility to ensure the team makes commitments and lives up to expectations.
• Foster a team culture of ownership, collaboration, and passion for delivering quality products.
• Motivate the team to maintain high technical standards when it comes to ensuring reliability and up time.
• Collaborate with the wider technical leadership in ensuring the team follows architectural direction and for general alignment on ways of working.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, knowledge sharing, planning and conflict resolution in the team.
• Ensure that team processes and routines are defined, organised, and continuously reviewed and optimised, aligning with other teams as much as possible.
• Take responsibility for resolving or escalating impediments to team performance.
• Serve as the main point of contact for the team, facilitating open communication and co-ordination with other teams as and when required.
• Ensure all administrative tasks related to the team are performed in a timely manner.
• Ensure all roles in the team are well defined and communicated, with the ability to delegate responsibilities to team members.
• Be an active member of the team, with the expectation that your time would be split 50/50 (on average) between team leadership activities and technical work. 

What we are looking for

• A strong technical background in software engineering for web applications.
• Experienced and passionate about coaching, mentoring and leading people, preferably having done so in a similar role.
• Ability to efficiently review PRs and provide constructive feedback.
• Highly knowledgeable and experienced with TypeScript / JavaScript and Web Markup (CSS3/HTML5).
• Experienced and comfortable working with large scale applications, including SDK & FE components architecture, modularisation, efficient application bundling, unit testing, and integrating with backend APIs.
• Highly knowledgeable and experienced with modern agile software development practices, GIT based projects, and CI/CD pipelines.
• A good understanding of Observable technologies (preference for RxJS) 

Great if you have

• Proven experience delivering software as an Agile Lead / Scrum Master / Team Lead in a technically complex and agile environment.
• Knowledge about web component frameworks (ex. StencilJS).
• Prior working experience with major Frontend Frameworks such as Angular 2+, React, Vue.
• Working experience with geographically distributed teams.
• Passionate and keen interest in the essential leadership topics.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, with a strong focus on execution and delivery.
• Clear verbal & written communication, able to explain technical topics to non-technical stakeholders. 

What we offer

Betsson Group is one of the largest companies within the Global iGaming space and can trace our heritage as far back as the 1960’s. We’re Swedish and publicly listed too with our Operational HQ located on the Mediterranean Island of Malta. We strive to deliver the best customer experience in the industry. As a market leader within iGaming we offer online gaming products across 12+ jurisdictions and 20+ brands. You will be part of a passionate team, which is building an industry leading, scalable, multi-brand platform used by hundreds of thousands of our customers!

We offer numerous challenges where your skills will be put to good use! We encourage innovation, independence and celebrate success where you will be part of multi-cultural and diverse company, with people from all over the world.

Challenge Accepted? 

If you are interested to learn more, please apply with your CV.

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