Senior Engineering Manager
This is a people-and-delivery leadership role responsible for Super's internal service framework - the composable building blocks (service bootstrapping, key-value storage, Kafka streaming, stream processing) and matching Kubernetes operators that power hundreds of production services.
You will lead and grow the team that owns this platform, from 5 engineers to 8+, working alongside two established tech leads who own technical direction whilst you own hiring, growth, delivery, and the stakeholder relationships around it.
- Own the core service framework, covering service runtime, storage and streaming SDKs, and their Kubernetes operators.
- Own the platform CLI and developer-facing tooling ergonomics, including object storage, search, and caching integrations.
- Deliver 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 organisation.
- Hire and grow the team from 5 to 8+ engineers, onboard recent joiners, and build a growth path for junior engineers, establishing the seniority mix beneath a strong senior core.
- Partner with two tech leads who own technical direction, owning people, hiring, delivery, and stakeholder alignment whilst keeping the split between roles explicit.
- Drive platform reliability and adoption, with success measured by how many teams choose to build on the platform.
- Own the working relationship with the Infrastructure/SRE organisation, including a clear operational ownership boundary for shared infrastructure.
- Track record of growing a backend team through a step change in size, and of 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 but depth in this exact stack is not required, since technical direction sits with the tech leads (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, with the ability to help define the shape of the role (required).
- Track record of partnering with SRE/Infrastructure organisations on shared production ownership (required).
- Medical / Health Insurance
- Open Annual Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Training & Learning Development
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.