Sportserve forms part of a remarkable group of B2C sports betting and B2B sportsbook technology companies, focused on delivering first class sports betting experiences and casino products for our users worldwide. Along with Sportion, TechSpirit, Standard Focus and Sportelligent, we are the driving force behind the world renowned sports betting company and our flagship brand, Dafabet.

Since launching our global hiring initiative, we now employ over 2,000 people worldwide, offering exciting career paths in Technology, Trading, Operations and Media. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and international culture that embraces the global community and acts locally. We offer office based, hybrid and remote work on permanent and consultancy contracts all over the world, making us the true global employer of choice.

What you'll be getting up to: 

We are a business that is continually growing and innovating to keep up to date with the latest trends in the sports betting industry.

In doing so, we are looking for a talented Development manager to help guide our application teams in sunsetting our legacy stack over the next 2 years.

You will be helping to ensure the stack’s performance remains optimal under growing load and volumes as well as delivering continual improvements and features until the legacy stack can be fully transitioned.

With the continual growth of the business, we will look to grow this role into other areas once the sunsetting is complete.

Key Responsibilities

• Line management of a medium to large development team composed of multiple streams including Software Engineers, QA and Team Leads, across multiple locations and time zones
• Key stakeholder liaison and alignment with senior people in Project, Engineering and Product management organisation, from product development to operations and architecture
• Lead shaping software engineering practices and processes working in various flavours of Agile
• Measuring and driving delivery and quality improvements through the capture and analysis of metrics
• Definition, implementation and evolution of development team technical process and ways of working
• Provision of technical input into the Project Management, Engineering Management and Product Management
• Work with Engineering management to drive through best practice, techniques and technology both on the team and around the company
• Foster a culture of open exchange of ideas, innovation and continuous improvements
• Balance the commercial needs of the business against the ideal technical design, proposing sound phased or tactical implementations where appropriate
• Understand the importance of and be a strong advocate for non-functionals eg. monitoring, alerting, logging etc
• Define adequate strategies to deal with technical debt
• Collaborate with Support to enhance company’s Incident and Problem management capabilities
• Planning, implementation and evolution of technical processes and feedback to the wider company
• Accountable for the quality of the implementation and deployment of development work
• Accountable for the security, capacity and performance of the system
• Work in conjunction with Support and evolving Support engagement and operating model for your area of the business
• Act as escalation point in Incident management processes
• Take ownership of RCA activities in your respective areas of management
• Follow up on and own the completion of technical or process improvements identified as part of the RCA
• Motivating and driving the team with technical leadership

List of skills we think you need:

• Demonstrable experience of managing teams
• Strong engineering background acquired during a previous hands-on development role
• Managerial and leadership skills, able to motivate and lead personal development plans for employees
• Driving change and handling difficult situations
• Dealing with change on a daily basis
• Ability to demonstrate the value of changes introduced
• Proven communication skills

List of skills we'd love you to have:

• PHP 7 and higher
• REST/JSON/SOAP
• RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Building and maintaining ultra-high load web applications, web services
• Advanced Proficiency in integrating with APIs (RESTful)
• Experience with MySQL, mariaDB, …
• Proficiency in optimising database queries, stored procedures, etc.
• Experience in Redis, memcached, ...
• Desirable background in Drupal

**We warmly invite applications in English.

Diversity & Inclusion at Sportserve

At Sportserve, we are deeply committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe in building a team that reflects a wide array of backgrounds, skills, and perspectives. Embracing diversity not only enriches our work culture but also drives innovation and excellence. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where everyone’s contribution is valued and respected.

If you’re a passionate about technology and looking to start your career in an international, forward-thinking Sports Betting company, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to become part of our exciting journey!