Backend Engineering Tech Lead
Summary
Backend Engineering Tech Lead at Betsson Group's Sportsbook in Budapest, owning technical direction, architecture alignment, code reviews, and mentoring while also hands-on with development. Core stack: C#/.NET microservices, PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Redis, AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, and event-driven messaging.
- Participation in design, POCs and development of complex tasks
- Ensuring high-quality delivery by developers
- Working closely with architects to communicate, align and implement architecture direction
- Aligning with other tech leads to ensure technical consistency
- Taking ownership of and driving technical excellence initiatives within Sportsbook
- Identifying technical improvements in applications
- Validating technical improvements and helping Product Managers prioritise them
- Explaining benefits of technical improvements to technical and non-technical audiences
- Participating in development, testing, code reviews, bug fixing, implementing new features
- Maintaining and improving existing functionality
- Participating in technical interviews
- Coaching and mentoring engineers
- Staying up to date with technology and strategic implementation
- Strong technical background and understanding of non-functional requirements
- Expertise with designing and implementing distributed microservices
- Deep understanding of the latest C# and .NET framework/core
- Experience deploying scalable back-end solutions using AWS/Azure/GCP
- Expertise with distributed systems and high-speed database technologies including SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis)
- Familiarity with messaging systems, message queues, and event-driven architecture
- Knowledge of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Deep understanding of coding best practices
- Team player offering help and sharing knowledge
- Pro-active attitude to suggest and drive improvements
- Fitness-wellness allowance
- Company mobile phone for private use with 100 GB
- Annual HUF devaluation compensation
- Hybrid model: 3 days in the office and 2 days from home
- Private Health Insurance
- Career development
- Technical and soft-skill training opportunities
- Breakfast, fruits and lunch
- Team building events