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**Overview Of The Role**
This role opening is for the Payments Squad within the Player Platform Tribe. Each tribe is composed of squads (typically 5-10 engineers) that focus on delivering features and services in their corresponding technical domain.
The Team Lead is accountable for the technical and operational leadership of the squad. While continuing to foster a collaborative and supportive work culture, this role places strong emphasis on people’s management, technical leadership and ownership, architectural direction, innovation, and reliable delivery.
The Team Lead is a hands-on Technical Leader who combines deep engineering expertise with strong leadership, delivery drive, system ownership and collaboration skills. This role bridges the gap between technical strategy and day-to-day execution, driving engineering excellence, guiding the team in building scalable and performant solutions, and ensuring alignment with product goals and architectural standards.
You’ll be both a mentor and a maker, leading by example in code quality, design, and decision-making, while empowering your team to deliver impactful, reliable, and well-crafted software.
**What You’ll Do**
**Engineering People Management**
* Participate in the recruitment process with a focus on both technical proficiency and cultural fit.
* Guide and mentor engineers to close technical skill gaps and build delivery capabilities aligned with business goals.
* Directly manage engineers through regular 1:1s and performance reviews focused on evaluating and growth of technical skill sets, such as code quality, system design thinking, and problem-solving.
* Foster a psychologically safe, collaborative, and technically curious team environment.
* Manage scheduling, time off
* Organize and participate in on-call rotations and app support to maintain service continuity.
* Develop and motivate engineers through clear growth plans, ensuring clarity, accountability, and follow-ups.
* Ensure the team consistently delivers roadmap items in alignment with the company’s vision and mission.
* Measure team effectiveness using agreed metrics
* Related duties as assigned
**Foster a Sustainable & Scalable Engineering Culture**
* Spend up to 50% of the time leading engineering, coding and delivering practices by example. Including technologies such as C#, .NET, NodeJS, PHP, Go, Groovy, Angular, React, Java, JavaScript and various libraries, and with tools, platforms, systems such as: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, BitBucket, SonarQube, Grafana, NPM, WildFly, Jetty, Nginx, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Ubuntu, Playwright, RestAssured and AWS which may be added to or changed per the business requirements.
* Define and drive the technical vision, standards, and best practices for respective domain architecture, performance, and maintainability.
* Remain hands-on, leading by example in coding, design, and code reviews.
* Serve as the technical owner of the squad’s systems and applications, ensuring long-term reliability, scalability, testability, and maintainability.
* Collaborate with other teams to design and evolve system interfaces, data contracts, and application flows.
* Balance innovation with practicality by making architectural decisions that support immediate delivery and long-term sustainability.
* Champion engineering best practices, clean code, modular design, semantic versioning, observability, and CI/CD automation.
* Ensure adherence to SDLC principles in close partnership with Scrum Master, Product, QA, Delivery and Architects.
* Manage and prioritize technical debt, codebase health, and aging risk.
* Drive adoption of technical enablers such as:
* Technical designs
* Code reviews
* Semantic versioning
* Branching strategies
* Static analysis tools
* CI/CD automation
* Testing and automation frameworks
* Monitoring, observability, and alerting
* And other as agreed in the engineering vertical
* Ensure systems meet regulatory and compliance standards from technical perspective
* Input into framework & language choice, development build and deployment tooling
* Ensure backlog includes a healthy balance of new features and operational work, respecting SLA commitments
* Related duties as assigned
**Champion Quality and Continuous Improvement**
* Lead planning, estimation, and prioritization of technical tasks ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables.
* Contribute directly to coding, reviews, and debugging to ensure consistent standards.
* Collaborate with QA, Architects, Product, DevOps and other teams to deliver high-quality, testable, and reliable software
* Analyze team effectiveness using agreed metrics
* Lead technical expertise in incident management, root cause analysis, post-incident decisions, and oversee any remedial work is carried out.
* Set high standards in code reviews, refactoring, test automation, and architecture decisions.
* Promote innovation, technical experimentation, and internal knowledge sharing.
* Ensure Definition of Done is achieved, including documentation, testing, and observability.
* Related duties as assigned
**Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication**
* Act as a technical point of contact for stakeholders, ensuring technical decisions are clearly communicated and well understood.
* Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, and Engineering Managers to shape project goals, technical roadmaps, and delivery strategies.
* Represent the technical domain discipline in tribe-level planning, design discussions, and architecture reviews.
* Communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and dependencies transparently.
* Related duties as assigned
**What You’ll Bring**
**Working Experience:**
* 6+ years of experience in building modern applications with at least 2 years in a lead or senior technical role.
* Experience with mentoring or leading engineering teams and delivering large-scale applications.
* Experience working with high-performant SaaS products.
* Experience working with cross-functional teams in a technology domain.
* Experience in developing and maintaining systems in the corresponding technical domain.
* Hands-on technical experience with technical enablers: CI/CD pipelines, code versioning and delivery, code quality tools, observability and others.
**Standard Qualifications**
* Good understanding of agile and scrum methodologies.
* Proficiency with Atlassian tools (especially JIRA & Confluence).
* Advanced level of English Language.
**Technical Competences**
This part should be per team/squad. It should be equivalent to senior level technical competences requirement.
**Personal Attributes**
* Strong leadership.
* Strong mentorship that develops others and promotes knowledge sharing.
* Technical excellence and a hands-on approach.
* Ownership, accountability, and delivery focus.
* Initiative, vision, and proactive problem-solving.
* Empathy, resilience, and the ability to make tough decisions.
* Effective communicator with solid negotiation and presentation skills.
* Analytical, fast-thinking, and structured reasoning.
* Strong adaptability that responds well to change and balances competing priorities.
* Strong organizational and time management skills.