Backend Engineering Tech Lead
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Summary
Tech lead for Betsson Group's Sportsbook team in Budapest: designing and building distributed backend microservices, driving technical excellence initiatives, reviewing code, and mentoring engineers. Core stack is C#/.NET, AWS/Azure/GCP cloud, PostgreSQL plus NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis), and Docker/Kubernetes.
- Participation in design, POCs and development of complex tasks
- Ensuring high-quality delivery by developers
- Collaboration with architects to communicate, align and implement architecture direction
- Alignment with other tech leads to ensure technical consistency
- Ownership and driving of technical excellence initiatives within Sportsbook
- Identification of technical improvements in applications
- Validation of technical improvements and prioritization with Product Managers
- Explanation of benefits of technical improvements to technical and non-technical audiences
- Participation in development, testing, code reviews, bug fixing, and implementation of new features
- Maintenance and improvement of existing functionality
- Participation 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 (e.g., MongoDB, Redis)
- Familiarity with messaging systems, message queues, and event-driven architecture
- Knowledge of containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Deep understanding of coding best practices
- Team player with readiness to offer help and share 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
