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We are looking for a Lead Engineer to manage and guide a team of engineers while actively contributing to the technical success of our platform, a well-established product in the iGaming industry. This is an exciting opportunity to drive engineering excellence, shape development processes, and ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.
As a Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for technical leadership, team mentoring, and strategic decision-making while maintaining a hands-on approach in development when needed. You will work closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, and operations to deliver scalable, reliable, and efficient solutions.
Responsibilities
As a Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for technical leadership, team mentoring, and strategic decision-making while maintaining a hands-on approach in development when needed. You will work closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, and operations to deliver scalable, reliable, and efficient solutions.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive technical best practices, ensuring high-quality, maintainable, and scalable software solutions
- Collaborate with the Head of Engineering to shape the platform's technical direction, architecture, and roadmap
- Oversee code reviews, design reviews, and system optimizations to uphold engineering excellence
- Ensure DevOps, CI/CD, and automation practices are fully embedded in development workflows
- Lead and manage a team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture
- Provide coaching, career development support, and performance feedback to engineers
- Drive team alignment, ensuring engineers understand business priorities and technical goals
- Assist in hiring, onboarding, and growing the engineering team, ensuring the right talent is in place
- Work closely with Product Owners and other engineering teams to ensure smooth feature delivery
- Remove roadblocks, improve team efficiency, and balance technical debt with feature development
- Ensure the team delivers high-quality work through agile methodologies, iterative feedback loops, and best engineering practices
- Manage third-level production support, ensuring issues are resolved efficiently with minimal business impact
- Maintain a hands-on approach, actively participating in coding, debugging, and architecture discussions
- Promote performance optimization, security best practices, and technical innovation within the team
- Identify and implement improvements in development processes, testing strategies, and operational efficiencies
- 6+ years of experience in Java web application development, with strong expertise in backend solutions
- Deep knowledge of Java, Spring, Servlets, JSP, Filters, and other web application frameworks
- Hands-on experience with microservices architecture, cloud platforms, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong understanding of relational databases and query optimization
- Proven experience in API development, security best practices, and performance tuning
- Solid grasp of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and automation frameworks
- Experience leading an engineering team, ideally as a Tech Lead, Lead Engineer, or Engineering Manager
- Strong ability to mentor and develop engineers, fostering growth and upskilling the team
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- Posted
- Feb 21, 2025
- Type
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid-Senior
- Location
- Madrid
- Company
- Gaming Innovation Group
Industries
IT Services
IT Consulting
Categories
Engineering
Information Technology
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