Backend Engineering Tech Lead

Betsson

We are looking for a Performance Architect to join our Sportsbook Technology organization and take end‑to‑end ownership of performance as a first‑class architectural concern across our platform. This role has a strong focus on frontend performance, while also requiring solid understanding of infrastructure, networking, and distributed systems, enabling close collaboration with other Architects, DevOps, and engineering teams. The Performance Architect will work across current and future Sportsbook initiatives, ensuring that performance, scalability, and responsiveness are built in by design, not treated as an afterthought. Previous Sportsbook or high‑traffic real‑time systems experience is considered a strong advantage. THE WOW Much like a rollercoaster, life at Betsson Group is fast-paced, full of twists and turns, and always exciting. With more than 2,800 colleagues representing over 75 nationalities across a global network of offices - including 1,500 at our operational headquarters in Malta - every day brings new challenges and opportunities to grow. It may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you thrive on innovation, enjoy pushing boundaries and want to be part of a diverse, international team, then you’ll fit right in at Betsson. A TASTER OF WHAT YOU WILL BE INVOLVED WITH:  PERFORMANCE ARCHITECTURE & STRATEGY * Define and own the performance architecture for Sportsbook applications, with a primary focus on frontend performance and customer‑perceived latency. * Establish and maintain performance‑related non‑functional requirements (NFRs) across web, mobile, and platform layers. * Work with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to ensure performance goals are aligned with business objectives and customer experience. FRONTEND PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE * Drive best practices for frontend performance including (but not limited to):  * Rendering and hydration strategies * Asset loading, caching, and CDN usage * Web performance metrics (Core Web Vitals, TTFB, LCP, CLS, INP, etc.) * Collaborate closely with frontend teams to review designs, implementations, and technical decisions from a performance perspective. * Partner with Solution Architects, Platform Architects, and DevOps to identify performance bottlenecks across: Infrastructure, Networking, Cloud and Kubernetes environments, APIs and backend dependencies * Contribute to architectural decisions and roadmaps to ensure long‑term scalability and performance sustainability. ANALYSIS, MEASUREMENT & IMPROVEMENT * Define and promote performance measurement standards, tooling, and dashboards. * Lead performance analysis, load testing, and capacity planning activities together with relevant teams. * Participate in incident reviews and root cause analysis, ensuring performance learnings are fed back into architecture and design. COMMUNICATION & ENABLEMENT * Act as a performance ambassador across the organization. * Communicate complex performance topics clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. * Mentor teams and help raise the overall performance maturity of the Sportsbook organization.   WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR TECHNICAL SKILLS * Strong experience with frontend performance engineering in large‑scale, high‑traffic systems. * Solid understanding of: * Web architectures and modern frontend frameworks * HTTP, networking fundamentals, caching, and CDNs * Cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) and containerized environments (e.g. Kubernetes) * Experience designing and reviewing systems with performance, scalability, and resilience in mind. ARCHITECTURAL & COLLABORATION SKILLS * Proven experience working in architectural or cross‑team technical roles. * Ability to influence architectural decisions without direct authority. * Comfortable collaborating with multiple teams and architectural disciplines. COMMUNICATION * Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. * Ability to explain performance trade‑offs and recommendations clearly to engineering, product, and non‑technical stakeholders. * Experience working closely with multiple departments in a complex organization. NICE TO HAVE * Previous Sportsbook, iGaming, or real‑time betting systems experience. * Experience with high‑availability, low‑latency platforms operating at scale. * Hands‑on experience with performance tooling, observability, and load‑testing frameworks.   WHAT WE OFFER   * Work on a mission‑critical, real‑time Sportsbook platform operating at significant scale. * Shape how performance is designed and delivered across both current systems and future initiatives. * Collaborate with experienced architects and engineering leaders across multiple domains. * Make a measurable impact on customer experience and platform quality. * Fitness-wellness allowance  🧗‍♂️ * Company mobile phone for private use with 100 GB  📱 * Annual HUF devaluation compensation  💡 * Hybrid model: 3 days in the office 🏢  & 2 days from home  🏠 * Private Health Insurance  🩺 * Career development  📈 * Technical and soft-skill training opportunities 🎓 * Breakfast, fruits & lunch 🍎 * Team building events  🥳     CHALLENGE ACCEPTED? 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Betsson

The Sportsbook Area with Product Development is now hiring! We have a world-class Sportsbook, developed in-house by our dedicated Sportsbook tech team and growing at a very rapid rate, expanding not only in new markets but also as a B2B product. Having our product available in different parts of the world and offering sports all around the world requires to have support around the clock. Our Product Development organisation is truly Global with cross functional teams spanning 5 Tech Hubs. These can be found in Malta, Budapest, Stockholm, Tallinn and Athens. THE WOW Much like a rollercoaster, life at Betsson Group is fast-paced, full of twists and turns, and always exciting. With more than 2,800 colleagues representing over 75 nationalities across a global network of offices - including 1,500 at our operational headquarters in Malta - every day brings new challenges and opportunities to grow. It may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you thrive on innovation, enjoy pushing boundaries and want to be part of a diverse, international team, then you’ll fit right in at Betsson. Our Sportsbook Platform is ours – from our Architecture to our Trading teams – we have an in-house platform which hosts our brands offering Sportsbetting for our customers. From the tools our traders use to the cutting edge features our customers use to bet on various sports – our teams are the backbone to making this happen! Our aim is to create the best performance, functionality and user experience in the iGaming industry! As part of our Sportsbook tech team – a high performance, throughout and availability product serving many brands (20+), you will be key in ensuring that the team delivers the required business value.   YOU ARE GOOD AT * .NET/C# * .NET Core * Interacting with REST APIs * SQL Server, writing queries and tuning performance * Communicating in English * Agile development * Unit testing frameworks * Collaborating and knowledge sharing   EXTRA AWESOME * Implementing distributed and multi-tier/micro-service systems * Experience with cloud computing services (eg. AWS, Azure) * Experience with Containerized applications / Docker / Kubernetes   A FLAVOUR OF WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING You will be part of an end-to-end agile team with a strong feature focus, consisting of developers, QA engineers and UX specialists. Team members are expected to be involved in all aspects of software development from making sure that the architecture and design is as good as we can make it, to writing code, unit and end-to-end tests and manage our data models. You will work both on designing and implementing new features as well as analyzing the system and improve architecture and technical excellence.   WHAT WE OFFER * Fitness-wellness allowance  🧗‍♂️ * Company mobile phone for private use with 100 GB  📱 * Annual HUF devaluation compensation  💡 * Hybrid model: 3 days in the office 🏢  & 2 days from home  🏠 * Private Health Insurance  🩺 * Career development  📈 * Technical and soft-skill training opportunities 🎓 * Breakfast, fruits & lunch 🍎 * Team building events  🥳   CHALLENGE ACCEPTED? By submitting your application, you understand that your personal data will be processed as set out in our Privacy Policy

Betsson

At Betsson Group, we strive to deliver the best customer experience in the industry. We are one of the market leaders in iGaming, offering online gaming products in a number of markets, both through our own gaming sites as well as several partner brands. THE WOW Our Product Development organisation spans across 5 locations, with the most creative teams in the industry! If you are passionate about the latest technologies and can handle mission-critical responsibilities, then this is the role for you! We are operating in a very competitive market therefore we MUST use latest technologies. Our aim is to create the best performance, functionality, and user experience in the iGaming industry! You will be part of a passionate team, which is building an industry leading, scalable, multi-brand platform to support 40+ online brands! Our brands are used by hundreds of thousands of users and growing. WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? Player Account Management (PAM) Area covers everything related to the management of the player accounts, such as: * Account creation, verification, updates, and closure * Account authentication, controls, and security * User session management * Responsible Gaming    At Betsson, we pride ourselves on adaptability and keeping up with the latest technologies. Our current tech stack is below, but by the time you join we may have adopted an even better stack: * .NET C#, .NET Core, xUnit * .NET Web API, WCF * MSSQL, Couchbase * GitHub, TeamCity We are also moving towards microservices and containerization with Docker.   YOU ARE GOOD AT * .NET C# with knowledge of the ASP.NET Web API * Implementing distributed and multi-tier/microservices systems * Collaborating with teams to create awesome features * Communicating in English   EXTRA AWESOME * Experience with coaching and mentoring junior colleagues * .NET Core * Docker * NServiceBus / Kafka / RabbitMQ * DevOps experience     WHAT WE OFFER * Fitness-wellness allowance  🧗‍♂️ * Company mobile phone for private use with 100 GB  📱 * Annual HUF devaluation compensation  💡 * Hybrid model: 3 days in the office 🏢  & 2 days from home  🏠 * Private Health Insurance  🩺 * Career development  📈 * Technical and soft-skill training opportunities 🎓 * Breakfast, fruits & lunch 🍎 * Team building events  🥳     CHALLENGE ACCEPTED? If you are interested to learn more, please apply with your CV in English. By submitting your application, you understand that your personal data will be processed as set out in our Privacy Policy