Engineering Team Lead

Company Description

We’re the world’s leading sports technology company, at the intersection between sports, media, and betting. More than 1,700 sports federations, media outlets, betting operators, and consumer platforms across 120 countries rely on our know-how and technology to boost their business.

Job Description

We are looking for an engineering leader in the Scout Management Platform (SMP) squad who loves working with both people and software. We expect that you, as a leader, are passionate about building an environment where software engineers can achieve their full potential. As a Senior Engineer, you have a great understanding of modern development techniques and can be a partner for the team to choose the best solutions. We expect that you can be an advocate of clean code, clean architecture, TDD (Test Driven Development), and pair programming and always welcome feedback.

You will be given a lot of autonomy and we want you to use the most of it and drive the team towards technical excellence. We hope you feel learning is a natural part of your workday and you have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise.

THE CHALLENGE: 

• Lead a team of diverse and talented software engineers with various levels of expertise.
• Coach engineers to grow, by supporting and giving them frequent feedback, setting individual goals, and assessing performance. 
• Facilitate technical discussions and help to make the best decisions.
• Be a member of the Tribe Engineering Leadership Team shaping the culture and engineering practices of the entire Tribe.
• Learning and sharing experiences on new technologies and trends and how you can leverage them in current and future products. Lead prioritization efforts and provide mentorship to others.
• Contribute to the code (we do not need you to be the best programmer in the team, but we believe in ‘walk the talk’)
• Coordinate release activities, including clear and detailed plans or checklists for testing and roll-out.

Qualifications

• Past demonstrated hands-on technical leadership and people management experience.
• Experience in building and leading motivated, high-performing teams working in an agile environment
• Hands-on software development experience (in Java & Kotlin)
• Ability to write a clean, well-crafted, and tested code (XP, TDD)
• Excellent communication skills, ability to engage colleagues to thoughtfully work toward a single goal and help the team to adapt and succeed when things do not go exactly as planned.
• Broad technical experience to understand the complexity of services the squad develops, challenge ideas and facilitate technical discussion
• Advocate good practices like clean code, design patterns, TDD, pair programming etc
• Experience with cloud-native applications (preferably AWS) and some experience with PHP is preferred
• Experience with large-scale event streaming architectures, messaging brokers (for example Kafka), graphQL
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes  

Additional Information

• Work for and shape one of the fastest-growing digital sports companies in the world at the exciting intersection of sports, media, betting and advertising.
• Be part of a highly motivated, innovative, and dynamic organization with people from more than 30 nationalities in our offices.
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Opportunity for hybrid working (3 Office days per week)
• Influence the future of Sportradar, you will be directly contributing to products used by our clients in the global sports business
• Summer events and Christmas party
• Coffee, tea, fresh fruits and water in the office
• Internal management programs according to management level: Grow / Lead Like a Pro / Sportradar e-Academy including team workshops with external trainers.

SPORTRADAR

Sportradar is a global leader in understanding and leveraging the power of sports data and digital content for its clients around the world. We provide cutting-edge solutions and services to media companies, bookmakers, sports federations and state authorities.

We are a truly international business employing over 3,500 people in more than 30 locations around the world. Our rapid growth has been driven by technological innovation alongside an understanding of our client’s business needs. It is our commitment to excellent service, quality and reliability that makes us the trusted partner of more than 1,000 companies in over 100 countries.

We occupy a unique position at the intersection of the sports, media and betting industries. This creates an exciting and fast-moving working environment that rewards creative thinking and hard work. We are passionate about what we do, and we care passionately about our people.

If you think you’re up to the challenge, come and help us to grow, innovate and develop!

Shoot your shot in Sports and data! Don´t be a Spectator.

Sportradar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to encourage diversity within our teams. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to among other things, your background, status, or personal preferences