Technical Lead, Verification

Bet365 Company; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

Job summary

bet365 is seeking a Technical Lead to drive development within the Verification team, overseeing a ground-up re-architecture using Golang, React and Cloud platforms. You will lead a full stack team, champion code quality, and deliver robust verification systems in a fast-paced environment.

You will mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and ensure solutions meet business needs while supporting a hybrid working-from-home policy. A Bachelor’s in CS or equivalent experience is expected.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience with leading development solutions.
• Knowledge of Kafka, SQL, .Net, Golang or TypeScript, or experience with similar or alternative technologies.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experienced in mentoring and coaching a team.
• Good technical documentation skills.
• High standards of work and attention to detail.
• Experience of working with high availability, multiuser, service-based systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a relevant discipline, or relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Applying governance around overall solution design, code quality and coding standards with the team.
• Driving provision of scalable, maintainable, and performant systems.
• Acting as a point of escalation for the team both in and out of office hours.
• Reviewing the team’s adherence and output.
• Ensuring solutions meet Business needs.
• Taking responsibility for work estimation and producing solution documents.
• Understanding the technical structure and architecture of the systems.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Fast-paced environment

Documentation

High availability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant discipline

Tools

Kafka

SQL

.NET

Golang

TypeScript

Job description

As a Technical Lead, you will play a key role within our dedicated Verification team as we embark on a ground up re-architecture.

Within the Verification team, you will develop, enhance, and support our Business-critical Verification platform with the delivery of real time facial recognition systems using, innovative AI technology, to core operational tooling.

Verification operates as a full stack team who are in the process of undertaking a ground up re-architecture into Golang, React and Cloud platforms. Core skills within the team are Kafka, SQL, .Net, Golang and Typescript.

You will drive the development and implementation of robust verification systems, ensuring the highest quality standards for our software products. Your technical leadership will empower a talented group of developers to innovate and excel in delivering reliable solutions, while fostering a collaborative and dynamic environment.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience with leading development solutions.
• Knowledge of Kafka, SQL, .Net, Golang or Typescript, or experience with similar or alternative technologies.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experienced in mentoring and coaching a team.
• Good technical documentation skills.
• High standards of work and attention to detail.
• Experience of working with high availability, multiuser, service-based systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a relevant discipline, or relevant professional experience.

Additional Information

• Applying active governance around overall solution design, code quality and coding standards with the team.
• Assisting in driving the provision of scalable, maintainable, and performant systems.
• Acting as a point of escalation for the team both in and out of office hours.
• Reviewing the team’s adherence and output.
• Ensuring solutions meet Business needs.
• Taking responsibility for work estimation, producing solution documents, and ensuring accurate portrayals of effort can be obtained and subsequently delivered.
• Understanding the technical structure, domain, and architecture of the systems the team is responsible for and how those systems are configured in the development and production estate.
• Collaborating with all stakeholders, including managers and Architects, to create fit for purpose solutions.
• Owning technical solutions from development to live at low level.
• Distributing knowledge and mentoring of team members.

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