Engineering Manager
Superbet is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the team responsible for its internal service framework, known as The Playstack. This platform provides the foundational building blocks for hundreds of production services, including service bootstrapping, storage, and streaming capabilities. The role focuses on people management, delivery, and stakeholder alignment, while working alongside two established tech leads who manage the technical direction of the platform.
The Engineering Manager will oversee the core service framework, developer tooling, observability, and platform reliability. This is a leadership position that requires balancing team growth with operational excellence and cross-departmental collaboration, particularly with the Infrastructure and SRE organisations.
- Hire and grow the team from 5 to 8+ engineers, and establish the seniority mix beneath a strong senior core.
- Partner with two tech leads who own technical direction - you own people, hiring, delivery, and stakeholder alignment, without role confusion, and you help make the split between them explicit.
- Onboard and settle several recent joiners, and build a growth path for the team's more junior engineers.
- Drive platform reliability and adoption - success is measured by how many teams choose to build on it.
- Own the working relationship with the Infrastructure/SRE organization, including a clear operational ownership boundary for shared infrastructure.
- Own The core service framework: service runtime, storage and streaming SDKs, and their Kubernetes operators.
- Own the platform CLI and developer-facing tooling ergonomics (object storage, search, caching integrations).
- Own Out-of-the-box observability, alerting, and autoscaling for every service on the platform.
- Own Platform uptime and disaster recovery, co-owned with the Infrastructure/SRE organization.
- Track record of growing a backend team through a step change in size (required).
- Experience developing engineers into tech leads (required).
- Experience leading platform or infrastructure teams serving internal engineering customers (required).
- Enough technical grounding to hold credible architecture conversations about distributed systems, streaming (Kafka or similar), key-value stores, and Kubernetes (required).
- Go experience is valued (nice-to-have).
- Skill at managing alongside strong tech leads without role confusion - including more than one on the same team (required).
- Comfort operating in ambiguity: we are still early in the process so you will be able to define its shape (required).
- Track record of partnering with SRE/Infra organizations on shared production ownership (required).
Superbet, which operates under the Super Technologies banner, is a multinational sports betting and gaming group founded in 2008 in Romania by Sacha Dragic. Headquartered in Bucharest, it began with retail betting shops and has grown into one of the leading omni-channel betting operators in Central and Eastern Europe, with a strong focus on digital products. The group employs more than 5,000 people and operates across around a dozen European markets as well as Brazil. Its offices span Romania, Poland, Serbia, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Croatia, Brazil, Malta and Gibraltar.