Engineering Team Lead/Manager
As an Engineering Team Lead at Smarkets, the successful candidate will lead a team of software engineers responsible for building, managing, and maintaining the microservices that power Smarkets' products. The role involves organising the team's direction, guiding career growth, and ensuring the development of a robust, scalable, and performant technology stack.
Working alongside other engineering managers, technical leadership, and product managers, the Engineering Team Lead will drive complex technical projects to deliver the Smarkets product roadmap. This position requires a balance of hands-on technical contribution and people management to maintain high engineering standards and foster a high-performance environment.
- Report to the VP of Engineering.
- Directly manage a team of engineers, from junior to tech-leads.
- Drive sprint planning, including proper scoping of tasks, working alongside the Program Management function.
- Hire great people and keep them happy, motivated, and challenged.
- Ensure the career growth of the engineers in the team as they advance in seniority.
- Set the standard for quality engineering, including improving engineering processes, to keep the level of excellence high.
- Explore and define next technology adoption paths to help build the stack for the future.
- Represent the team in cross-functional meetings and internal events.
- Champion the stack by demonstrating first hand how to implement functionalities in the right way, with an eye to the horizon and a focus on the present.
- 3+ years of experience building microservices for high speed and high scale products (required).
- 3+ years of experience working with a modern technology stack (Rust, C++, Java, etc) (required).
- Previous experience leading a team technically or directly (required).
- Stock Options: Vest over 4 years, your success is our success.
- Pension Scheme: Competitive plan via Aviva, with up to 6% matched contributions if you opt in.
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive coverage to keep you and your family healthy.
- Enhanced Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity and paternity leave to support you through life’s most important moments.
- Stay Fuelled: Enjoy fresh, chef-made breakfast and lunch every day, plus a constant supply of fruit, snacks, tea, coffee and soft drinks.
- Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Support for sustainable commuting and staying active.
- Learning & Development: £1,000 annual education budget for courses, conferences, books, or training.
- Holiday: 25 days paid leave + bank holidays, with the option to carry over 5 days.
- Flexible Working: Hybrid model with 3 days in the office and 2 days from home to fit your lifestyle.
- Global Working: Work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days a year.
- Team Energy: Regular socials, hackathons, and events - because collaboration and fun go hand-in-hand.
Smarkets is a peer-to-peer betting exchange based in London, where customers bet against each other rather than against a bookmaker and the exchange earns a commission on net winnings. It offers markets on sport and politics, and its teams in London work across engineering, product, design and commercial roles, with customer operations staff in Malta.