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Overview Of The Role
This role opening is for the Platform Services 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
* Analise 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
Working Experience
What you’ll bring:
technical role.
* 6+ years of experience in building modern applications with at least 2 years in a lead or senior
* Experience with mentoring or leading engineering teams and delivering large-scale application;
* 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
* 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
About Singular
Singular is an international iGaming software provider headquartered in Malta, with offices in North Macedonia and Georgia. We provide our platform solutions to some of the most innovative and well-known brands in the sports betting and gaming industry.
As of 2021, we’re part of Flutter International, the world’s leading online sports betting and iGaming operator. Together, we create the future of entertainment – and you can join us too.
Why choose us
At Singular, people have access to vast opportunities for career growth and self-development. Our employee benefits package goes far beyond offering the minimum: We support our people in becoming their best version at work and beyond – and our benefits reflect that commitment.
These are some of the benefits included in our employee package:
* Generous annual leave
* Hybrid work
* Individual health insurance
* Paid sick leave
* Paid maternity & paternity leave
* Family reward
* Performance & referral bonuses
* Loyalty award
Equal opportunities
As a brand of Flutter International, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where our people can be their authentic selves and thrive. We embrace and celebrate diversity, respecting all our uniqueness and differences.
We welcome you to let us know whether you have any accessibility needs. All you need to do is email us at jobs@singular.uk. Your journey with us is focused on ensuring you have what you need to be your best self.
Learn more about the works we are doing on Inclusion and belonging here: https://careers.flutterinternational.com/working-at-flutter-international/diversity-equity-inclusion/
The Group
Singular is a proud member of the Flutter Entertainment family, a global leader in sports betting, iGaming, and entertainment. We’re not just another company we’re listed on both the prestigious FTSE 100 index on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
What sets us apart is our world class brands, cutting-edge products, and our international division includes our operations in over 100 global markets and offers sports betting, casino, poker, rummy and lottery, mainly online.
What truly defines us is our commitment to ensuring that the excitement of gaming and entertainment is experienced in a responsible and sustainable way. Our remarkable team of over 8,000 colleagues drives this vision, spread across 28 offices worldwide.