Engineering Manager

June 3

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Fixing betting with a core focus on price and product

sports betting • exchange platform • betting exchange • prediction market • fintech

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💰 Series B on 2021-06

Description

• Engineer and optimize exchange solutions, focusing on but not limited to scalability, low latency, reliability, monitoring, security and automation. • Drive sprint planning, including proper scoping of tasks, and execution of the roadmap delivery goals, working alongside our Product Management function • Directly manage a team of engineers, from junior to seniors as well as hire great people and keep them happy, motivated, and challenged • Ensure the career growth of the engineers in your team as they advance in seniority • Set the standard for quality engineering, including improving our engineering processes, to keep our level of excellence high • Collaborate with other leads and engineering managers, and other stakeholders in the implementation and future development of product roadmap. • Represent the team in cross-functional meetings and internal events • Be proactive during incident management with hands-on troubleshooting. • Be the champion of the stack by demonstrating first hand how to implement functionalities in the right way, with an eye to the horizon and your mind on the present • Articulate the company vision and strategy to the team; the “why”, the business case, context, benefits any constraints etc.

Requirements

• Previous experience leading and mentoring exchange-focused engineering teams. • Proven leadership skills, and capable of building and managing technical teams. • 8 plus years’ experience in designing, developing, and implementing cloud-distributed systems. • Can demonstrate deep knowledge in running services in cloud microservice environments and hands-on experience with Kubernetes. • Familiarity with AWS cloud. • Familiarity with observability principles and tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry Elasticsearch, Jaeger) • Excellent planning and communications skills and able to lead conversations with development and product teams.

Benefits

• Stock options which vests over 4 years • Pension scheme - An impressive pension scheme via Aviva. We will match 6% if you choose the same • Health insurance • Fresh fruit and snacks provided in the office everyday! (tea, coffee, soft drinks also included) • We’re a member of a cycle-to-work scheme • We want to continue to invest in all our employees and do so by providing a £1000 yearly education budget that can be used on courses, conferences, books or training • 25 days paid holiday + bank holidays to enjoy - you have the choice to carry over 5 days to the next year! • Flexible working - we want to provide a hybrid model approach to working and provide you with 2 days a week working from home. • 20 days a year of global working - we provide the ability to work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days a year. • We will provide you lunch everyday in the office - you don’t need to worry about feeding your belly as we have it sorted with top quality food served by our in-house Chef Alex!