Engineering Manager - Sportsbook Experience (Backend)

Role overview Lead the backend pod powering the sportsbook experience, the Java and Spring services behind event data, pricing and odds, betslip and bet placement, cash out, and the high-throughput APIs and streaming feeds that serve web, native, and retail clients. The role blends people leadership, delivery ownership, and hands-on technical contribution in a regulated, low-latency environment.

Responsibilities - Lead a backend team of engineers, running regular one-to-ones, stand-ups, and performance and career conversations, and own workforce planning and hiring. - Track sprint progress, refine the backlog, and work with Product to break down requirements into well-scoped features and stories. - Stay close to the code by reviewing pull requests, contributing to design and architecture, debugging production issues, and pairing on hard problems in Java and Spring services. - Own the reliability, latency, and correctness of the services the team runs, with strong observability, on-call practices, and learning from incidents, including in-play peaks and major sporting events. - Champion the company's move to become an AI-first organisation, reinforcing responsible use of approved AI coding and operations tools and keeping the team engaged with AI initiatives.

Requirements - Several years in technology with a meaningful portion in leadership or management, mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence through others. - Production engineering background in Java, with strong experience in Spring or Spring Boot at scale. - Solid grounding in microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architecture such as Kafka, relational and NoSQL data stores, and operating services on AWS and Kubernetes. - Demonstrable hands-on capability: reading and writing code, assessing pull requests, reasoning about thread dumps, slow queries, and latency spikes. - Self-motivated and autonomous, comfortable with ambiguity and ownership, and able to set the same expectation for the team. - Experience or strong interest in sportsbook, trading, real-time or high-throughput systems, or other low-latency regulated platforms, with comfort around compliance, security, and operational rigour. - Curiosity and openness toward AI-augmented development and the responsible use of AI in a regulated product.

Benefits and work setup - Competitive pay and benefits package. - Flexible vacation allowance and a hybrid or remote working environment. - Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand, with a stated commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity.