Backend Engineering Tech Lead - Sportsbook

Betsson

At Betsson Group, the Player Rewards and Gamification Area ensures our customers come back for more!  THE WOW It’s all about loyalty. We provide a world class customer experience beyond the game play featuring exciting features like tournament, dynamic personalised campaigns and much more! We also work closely with our Commercial, Compliance and Data teams to build the next generation back-office tools to support their processes. As our Senior Product Manager, you will be a part of a cross functional development team where you will have the primary responsibility for defining, organising and prioritising requirements. You will work closely with business stakeholders within the organisation, as well as developers, architects and UX designers to continuously optimise the customer experience. Together with your team you will take ownership of a number of customer journeys and/or capabilities where you will be one of the key people expected to drive and lead the delivery of new functionality as well as improvements of existing functionality. This will often require you to collaborate with other development teams and engage with a number of stakeholders to ensure a successful roll out. We operate in a fast paced and challenging industry, and you will have several opportunities to work on complex and cutting edge products and contribute to Betsson Group’s success.   A TASTER OF WHAT YOU WILL BE INVOLVED WITH:  * Proactively get input from relevant Business Units on operational needs and problems that need to be solved * Align requirements, scope, and plan with company-wide initiatives * Conduct competitors’ analysis * Lead User Research, experimentation, A/B testing, UAT initiatives * Own Product Roadmap and prioritization * Set and track Product KPIs and Success Metrics for product deliveries * Communicate iteratively on Roadmap changes and deliveries * Working with UX and UI designers (and other stakeholders as necessary) to define the customer experience and product specifications * Defining user stories with acceptance criteria together with the development team * Defining tracking, reporting, and non-functional requirements for user stories * Working with the team to refine, plan and prioritise user stories according to business value, always taking technical debt and the long term success of the product into account * Collaborating with stakeholders and ensuring that they are kept up to date and aligned with the current progress and prioritization * Helping the rest of the development team and Product Management peers to ensure that acceptance criteria are met * Occasional travelling be required to our various offices   WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR * Prior software engineering experience or education. * Collaboration and dialogue. You will be collaborating both with members of your development team, stakeholders outside the team as well as third party providers and partners * Agile. Not just processes but a true agile mind-set where all members of the cross functional development team are involved and where changing requirements based on business needs and market opportunities are embraced * Facilitating and creating workshops materials * Prioritizing and taking educated decisions * Collaborating with development teams * Problem solving and tough conversations. We work in a high paced industry and having more requirements and expectations than capacity is the norm. You will play a key role in managing expectations and ensuring a sustainable pace in your team. * You are technical enough to manage software product – backend, back-office, and player-facing features for the enterprise platform * Understanding of APIs, SQL, event-based services and various API exploration tools, like Postman, Swagger, LINQ Pad or similar is a must due to most of functionality is in the backend and API, with limited exposure to UI * Transactional business rules and algorithmic thinking * Defining observability, logging requirements, coming up with metrics, alerts ad defining deviations from normal performance of the system. * Good understanding and ability to define non-functional requirements is a must * Analysing legal and regulatory requirements * Product Discovery, Product Planning, and delivery tools (like Jira, Confluence, Miro or similar) * Thorough documentation of decisions, requirements, analysis and dependencies * Creating audience-specific presentations and workshop materials * Gaming, Payments, Revenue Recognition and Accounting, Taxation, CRM, SAAS experience is a big plus   WHAT WE OFFER Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1700 strong, spread across 7 offices with 900 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.   CHALLENGE ACCEPTED? By submitting your application, you understand that your personal data will be processed as set out in our Privacy Policy

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.   Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1700 strong, spread across 7 offices with 900 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in. At Betsson Group we work with a Hybrid Work From Home (WFH) model, giving you the flexibility of working 3 days in the office (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) and 2 days from home. 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? By submitting your application, you understand that your personal data will be processed as set out in our Privacy Policy

Betsson

Shape the world's top horse racing betting platform THE WOW Join a team of 12 building RaceBets - a global horse racing product used by millions. We're looking for a product-minded backend developer who ships high-quality features, not just endpoints - someone who asks why, owns outcomes, and cares about correctness in a real-money system. Betting, settlements, payments, and partner integrations - where reliability and performance directly affect the business. A TASTE OF WHAT YOU WILL BE INVOLVED WITH:  * REST APIs and backend services in PHP 8+ for our web and B2B platforms * Feature ownership end-to-end: requirements → implementation → test → release * Performance, architecture, security, and SQL in a high-traffic, SQL-first codebase * Third-party integrations (payments, data feeds, partners) * AI tools to move faster without cutting corners * (~15%) occasional Java (BetX) - debugging and integration across the PHP/Java boundary * (Growth) Vue 3 / TypeScript if you want to grow full stack WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR * Strong PHP 8+, REST APIs, and SQL in production * Automated testing and a high quality bar * Product mindset - clarify requirements, push back when needed, care about outcomes * Self-starter who collaborates well in a small team * Mid-level or senior - we care more about mindset and craft than years * Bonus: Java, Vue/TS, betting/fintech, Symfony components WHY JOIN US RaceBets: High ownership and direct impact - mostly PHP, with room to grow into Java or frontend. WHAT WE OFFER Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1700 strong, spread across 7 offices with 900 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.   CHALLENGE ACCEPTED? By submitting your application, you understand that your personal data will be processed as set out in our Privacy Policy