Back End Tech Lead (Scala)

William Hill Sportsbook•Jersey City, NJ

60d

About The Position

As a Tech Lead, you will manage a team of engineers, ensuring technical excellence and smooth delivery within a Scrum framework. You will mentor team members, enforce best practices, be responsible for your team's quality output, and actively contribute to improving development processes. You will also write code and facilitate technical decisions to keep your team on track, and owned services healthy in production. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, ownership of technical excellence, and the ability to drive high-quality deliverables.

Requirements

5+ years of progressive experience as a software engineer, preferably within high-growth or real-time systems like betting or transactional platforms.
Proven ability to mentor, guide, and develop engineers with 1+ year experience managing software engineers preferred.
Extensive engineering experience in: Scala and related frameworks (Zio or Cats-effect
Building and maintaining APIs for high-throughput, real-time applications.
Utilizing AWS for cloud-native architectures.
Kafka and other NRT messaging platforms.
OLTP systems critical to real-time transaction processing.
Relational and non-relational databases like Cassandra, Redis, Postgresql
Observability tools like Splunk and NewRelic
Experience designing software architecture for scalable, distributed systems.
Strong expertise in Agile product delivery and Scrum methodologies.
Demonstrated bias toward action and ownership over key initiatives with a delivery-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

Directly contribute to team efforts by writing and reviewing impactful Scala code as well as code and config related to Kubernetes and Gitlab deployments
Develop, implement, and maintain best practices and standards that drive higher quality and operational excellence within your team.
Perform quality control by ensuring effective code reviews and addressing technical debt alongside product development.
Collaborate with Solutions Architects to create and review architectural documentation before team engagement.
Track your team's technical debt and advocate for time to address technical issues alongside product development.
Ensure adherence to Agile/Scrum best practices throughout delivery in partnership with the Delivery Lead.
Collaborate with Product in planning activities, including sizing of work, identifying risks and dependencies, and assigning out user stories to team members.
Support engineers through refinement, breaking down requirements into technical tasks, user story creation, and providing estimations. Push back on unrealistic timelines as needed.
Hold the team accountable throughout delivery, ensuring that the team follows appropriate processes.
Report out on progress against prioritized initiatives to stakeholders. Regularly communicate engineering risks and dependencies.
Support the team in feature readiness, including preparing for releases and deployments
Act as the direct manager of a team of engineers. Conduct regular 1:1s, provide mentorship, and deliver constructive feedback to foster team growth.
Support hiring and people management processes.