Team Lead (Engineering)

Sportingtech; Portugal; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Sportingtech in Portugal is seeking a Team Lead to guide a cross-functional squad, partnering with Product Owner and Engineering Manager to ensure delivery health, people practices, and long-term team success.

You will drive planning, track metrics, run 1:1s, mentor engineers, support hiring, and coordinate releases with IT Operations, ensuring smooth collaboration across Product, QA, NOC, and performance teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in engineering leadership or team coordination roles.
• Experience in cross-functional product teams with planning cadence and sprint execution.
• Strong stakeholder management with Product Owners and engineering counterparts.
• Good technical fluency, ideally with exposure to Java.
• Strong facilitation, conflict management, and escalation judgement.
• Organised, proactive, and outcome-focused approach to team leadership and execution support.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Product Owner to shape engineering work with clear feasibility, dependencies, sequencing, and acceptance criteria.
• Manage engineering coordination for capacity, WIP, and blockers to support predictable delivery.
• Monitor delivery health using metrics and drive corrective actions with leadership.
• Run regular 1:1s focused on engagement, feedback, and growth.
• Improve onboarding, mentoring structures, and team rituals for stronger execution.
• Contribute to hiring through interview participation and onboarding planning.
• Act as the engineering coordination point across Product, QA, NOC, Performance, and other teams.
• Coordinate release readiness with IT Operations, including change management and validation.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Java exposure

Facilitation & escalation

Job description

As a Team Lead, you report to the Engineering Manager and operate within a cross-functional squad alongside a Product Owner, Lead Engineer, QA, NOC, Performance and IT Operations. You are responsible for the engineering management side of team effectiveness – supporting delivery health, people practices, and cross-team coordination. You partner closely with the Product Owner on execution, and with the Engineering Manager and Lead Engineer to ensure the team is set up for long-term success.

The impact you will have

• Partner with the Product Owner to ensure engineering work is well-shaped, with clear feasibility, dependencies, sequencing, and high-quality acceptance criteria.
• Support predictable delivery by managing engineering-side coordination, including capacity alignment, WIP discipline, and escalation of blockers.
• Maintain a clear view of delivery health, using metrics such as cycle time, defect trends, operational load, and reliability signals to drive corrective actions with the Engineering Manager and Lead Engineer.
• Run regular 1:1s focused on engagement, feedback, and growth, coordinating closely with the Engineering Manager on performance topics and development plans.
• Improve onboarding, mentoring structures, knowledge sharing, and team rituals that strengthen cohesion and execution quality.
• Contribute to hiring through interview participation, role calibration, and onboarding planning.
• Act as the engineering coordination point across Product, QA, NOC, Performance, Architecture/Principal Engineers, and other engineering teams.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and integration readiness, ensuring clear communication and no surprises at release time.
• Work closely with IT Operations on release execution and change management, including environment constraints, change windows, approvals, rollback strategies, and production validation.
• Ensure consistent release readiness practices, including checklists, go/no-go criteria, communication plans, and post-release verification.
• Partner with IT Operations and the Lead Engineer to reduce operational toil through automation, process improvement, and better tooling.
• Coordinate incident follow-ups, ensuring ownership is assigned, actions are tracked to completion, and recurring issues are addressed.
• Ensure operational documentation such as runbooks, service READMEs, and service ownership information is maintained and discoverable.

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years’ experience in engineering leadership or team coordination roles (e.g. Team Lead, Delivery Lead, Engineering Coordinator, or similar).
• Proven experience working in cross-functional product teams where Product or Delivery owns planning cadence and sprint execution.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, particularly with Product Owners and engineering counterparts.
• Good technical fluency, ideally with exposure to Java and service-based delivery environments.
• Strong facilitation, conflict management, and escalation judgement.
• Ability to interpret delivery, quality, and operational metrics and drive continuous improvement.
• Organised, proactive, and outcome-focused approach to team leadership and execution support..

We are Sportingtech

Sportingtech is a multi-award-winning provider of turnkey betting and gaming solutions designed for regulated and emerging markets around the world. With offices in Malta, Bulgaria, London, Brazil and Portugal, our iGaming platform offers everything covering sportsbook and casino via a modular system and intuitive back office for a fully omni-channel solution. Our unparalleled ability to cater for local-market customisation and operator preferences provides players with an optimal betting experience, resulting in proven growth for our rapidly expanding customer base.

Sportingtech is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to providing a work environment of mutual respect to everyone without regard to race, colour, religion, national origin, age, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

The passion for excellence and the drive to be at the forefront of the industry are genuinely inspiring