Fullstack Team Leader
Playtech's Marketplace and Engagement Games Product Team is looking for an experienced Fullstack Team Leader with strong full-stack web development background, excellent communication skills, and a proven ability to lead teams and deliver reliable, maintainable, customer-facing software. The role combines engineering leadership, people management, and hands-on technical understanding. The Team Lead will guide the team in delivering high-quality full-stack solutions, support technical decision-making, improve engineering practices, and ensure effective collaboration with Product, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Delivery Management, and other teams.
- Lead and coordinate the full-stack engineering team.
- Own day-to-day progress tracking, and risk management.
- Work closely with Product, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Delivery Management, and external teams.
- Converting product requirements and business priorities into clear, well-defined technical tasks and structured delivery plans.
- Participate in solution design, technical discussions, architectural reviews, and implementation planning.
- Ensure effective engineering practices: code review, testing, documentation, CI/CD, observability, and production readiness.
- Mentor and coach engineers through feedback, technical guidance, code review, and regular communication.
- Improve team processes, engineering workflows, release predictability, and overall team efficiency.
- Contribute hands-on when needed in complex investigations, troubleshooting, or critical delivery situations.
- Maintaining client-facing and server-side applications, writing high-quality, scalable code, participating in the software development lifecycle, collaborating with other departments for ensuring smooth deployments, and refining internal processes.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in full-stack web development.
- 2+ years of experience in a leadership role, such as Team Lead, Engineering Lead, Tech Lead, Development Lead, or similar.
- Strong experience with modern JavaScript / TypeScript web applications.
- Solid practical knowledge of React, Redux, ES6+, HTML5, CSS3, Node.js, REST APIs, MongoDB, and Redis.
- Experience delivering customer-facing or business-critical web applications.
- Strong understanding of full-stack architecture, performance, testing, CI/CD, and production support.
- Experience working with highly available, performance-sensitive, distributed, or event-driven systems.
- Experienced in Agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional and distributed teams.
- Strong ownership, accountability, and an engineering leadership mindset.
- Ability to lead people, delivery, and technical discussions effectively.
- Good technical judgment and guide teams toward simple, maintainable solutions.
- Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong planning, prioritization, dependency management, and risk communication skills.
- Ability to mentor engineers and support their professional growth.
- Pragmatic approach to balancing delivery timelines, quality, and long-term product health.
- High attention to detail and a collaborative, constructive approach to feedback and conflict resolution.
- Experience improving engineering processes, delivery metrics, release predictability, or team performance.
- Experience with frontend architecture, reusable component libraries, design systems, or micro-frontends.
- Experience in gaming, gambling, casino platforms, campaign management, or real-time engagement products.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and production incident analysis.
- Constant learning and development opportunities and professional growth programs.
- Active lifestyle and mental well-being, supported through sports classes, master classes, and monthly well-being activities.
- Medical insurance.
- Paid vacation days, sick leaves and national holidays.
- Fully-equipped cosy office space located in the city centre (Gulliver, “Palats Sportu” metro station).
Playtech plc is one of the world's largest gambling technology companies, providing software, platforms and content to online and land-based operators. Founded in 1999 and registered in the Isle of Man, it supplies casino, live casino, sportsbook, bingo and poker products, along with its IMS player-management platform. The company also runs B2C operations, most notably the Snaitech business in Italy. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Playtech employs thousands of people across offices worldwide.