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Company Description

OpenBet is sport! The world's top sports betting brands choose OpenBet as their partner for world class content, leading tech and tailored services. We have their back. So they’re ready with exciting, memorable and safe sports betting experiences, to entertain millions of players worldwide.

OpenBet’s mission is to power growth and player engagement for operators through a global betting ecosystem that delivers at scale, at speed, at every great sports event. Our 1000 talented colleagues are the market's top team. We achieve billions of bets in a season; 60,000+ per minute (more transactions than Amazon on Prime Day); 100% uptime (zero Superbowl crashes!) and we're built on 25 years of imaginative technology that is iterated daily.

OpenBet has established a premium client base of more than 75 operators worldwide and has 34 licences across the fastest growing regulated sports betting markets in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The team is growing at scale driven by accelerated demand for our products and significant investment. We offer the speed, dynamism and growth opportunities of a start-up, underpinned by the stability and strength of a global employer.

Working at OpenBet every day is an opportunity for you to create exciting betting entertainment for millions of sports fans across the globe.

Want to be part of our future growth?

The Development Lead works alongside other Development Leads, Development Managers, Programme and Project Managers, Software Architects and Senior Software Engineers in order to shape and implement the technology and people vision of the team that will drive forward OpenBet's customer focused deliveries

Key Responsibilities:

• Key stakeholder liaison and alignment with senior people in the organisation, from Product teams to Operations and Architecture.
• Take a lead in shaping software engineering practices and processes on the projects, working in various flavours of Agile.
• Adherence to development best practice, notably around CI / CD and Quality Engineering standards.
• Motivating and driving the team with technical leadership and vision.
• Planning, implementation and evolution of technical processes and feedback to the wider company.
• Ensuring every deliverable has agreed SLAs, which are both demonstrable and monitored against defined KPIs.
• Quality of the implementation and deployment of development work.
• Line management of a small to medium development team composed of 1-2 streams including Software Engineers, Senior Software Engineers and Quality Assurance.
• Security, capacity and performance of delivered applications and services.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• Ideally 6+ years commercial hands-on software development experience in a previous role plus a minimum of 2 years’ experience managing teams of highly technical staff;
• Exceptional managerial and leadership skills, able to motivate and lead personal development plans for employees as well as driving change and handling difficult and complex project development activities both internally and externally;

Technical skills of relevance:

• Experience with Java, JavaScript, SQL, Spring, Git, Linux;
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken;
• Database design skills (any vendor);
• Deep understanding of core software engineering principles and practices such as Object-Oriented Design, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, CI/CD;

Personal Profile:

• Requires a “can do” commitment to achieve the success.
• Motivated, confident, self-sufficient, focused and determined
• Well organized and consistently meets commitments.
• Proven communication and presentation skills;
• Comfortable leading cross functional teams,
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Detail oriented and Strong communication skills.

Additional Information

This is a hybrid position and would require to be in the office 2 days a week. We're located in the heart of downtown, close to Peel metro station.

Why would you enjoy working with us at OpenBet?

• Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace
• The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis and the possibility to switch teams and projects as you and our business continues to develop and grow
• Exposure to real work, business-critical projects and the chance to develop some of the world’s leading e-commerce sportsbooks whilst working on exciting client projects and interact with lots of code!
• Tangible and genuine development - at OpenBet you can take your career where you want it to go!