Player Management - Backend Engineering Team Lead
Betsson GroupBudapest, Hungary
Posted July 28, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
From a single slot machine in 1963 to being listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and holding gaming licenses in 22 countries, Betsson has come a long way. Today, we are a multi-national company employing some 2,300 people from 70+ nationalities in 18 locations. Betsson AB's headquarters are in Stockholm, Sweden, but the operational headquarters are in Ta' Xbiex, Malta. We refer to the operational subsidiaries as "Betsson Group". Betsson’s operational subsidiaries’ vision is to deliver the best customer experience in the industry. We offer casino, sportsbook and other games via gaming licences in several countries in Europe, South America, North America, and Central Asia. The business model is to offer gaming under 20+ brands, including Betsson, Betsafe, Nordicbet and Casinoeuro. The brands are operated on a proprietary platform, which is the core of the offer and the customer experience. Being a responsible operator in relation to customers, suppliers, authorities, investors and other stakeholders is a cornerstone of our business. Betsson is a member of the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA), ESSA (Sports Betting Integrity) and G4 (The Global Gambling Guidance Group).
Job Description
We are looking for a Player Management - Backend Engineering Team Lead to lead a team of talented people and take overall responsibility for team performance. As the Team Lead, you will drive the delivery of your team and promote a healthy team spirit and culture.
Requirements
- A strong technical background in software engineering.
- Experienced and passionate about coaching and mentoring people, preferably having done so in a similar role.
- Technical proficiency with.NET technology stack.
- Experienced with distributed microservices architecture (preferably using Docker and Kubernetes) and highly cacheable RESTful APIs.
- Solid understanding of real-time messaging patterns (preferably Kafka and RabbitMQ).
- Experienced and comfortable working with both SQL and NoSQL databases (preferably PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Couchbase).
- Possess demonstrated working experience with observability practices for high availability systems (such as Grafana and OpenTelemetry).
- Highly knowledgeable and experienced with modern agile software development practices and CI/CD.
- Experience delivering software as an Agile Lead / Scrum Master / Team Lead in a technically complex environment.
- Working experience with AWS.
- Working experience with geographically distributed teams.
- A humble and inspirational leader who leads by example and fosters a culture of ownership and collaboration.
- Strong organisational and planning skills, with a strong focus on execution and delivery.
- Clear verbal & written communication, able to explain technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Fitness-wellness allowance
- Company mobile phone for private use with 100 GB
- Annual HUF devaluation compensation
- Hybrid model: 3 days in the office & 2 days from home
- Private Health Insurance
- Career development
- Technical and soft-skill training opportunities
- Breakfast, fruits & lunch
- Team building events