OVERVIEW:
Imagine being part of one of the most supportive communities you will encounter in your professional career. Imagine the company where ‘teamwork’ is not just a buzzword, but one of the core values of each employee. Imagine the place with huge emphasis on building own services using the quality-focused engineering practices and cloud-first principles. The place where you can become great at things you’re currently good at. All that while maintaining work‑life balance.
The ‘Odds Tribe’ in Sportradar offers popular trading services, used by over 200 organizations worldwide. Our team of experts manage betting probabilities using our leading edge mathematical models. Our clients can control their own sportsbooks in web interfaces, configuring everything from event and odds creation to market monitoring and result confirmation.
At Sportradar, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture and community. We partner with organizations and serve a customer base that is widely diverse. To best meet the needs of our partners and customers, we believe in ensuring our current and future employees feel empowered to bring forward their unique selves, opinions and viewpoints.
Join our team and become a part of the global, fast-growing success.
THE CHALLENGE:
Inspire and lead a team of Software Engineers in your team and across the Odds Tribe
Foster talent development by supporting personal growth, career advancement, and diverse hiring practices
Lead engineering consistency and alignment across the Odds Tribe
Set up and adjust team processes to achieve faster value delivery and lower wastes.
Ensure long-term grow of your product while partnering with PO and your team.
Build high performance services/products on top of our real-time sports data collected 24/7 globally for more than 30 different sports.
Use ATDD/BDD techniques in your daily work
Use AWS, Kubernetes, and GitLab CI
Influence the design and technology
Become a domain expert in the exciting world of real-time hi-tech sports data
Due to our success, we are continuously hiring motivated engineers in the Odds department. However, the current engineering leadership setup is not scaling well with our growth rate.
Our solution is to expand the engineering leadership group with Engineering Leaders.
This position includes line management of Software Engineers.
YOUR PROFILE:
You are a person who leads by example, with a test-first and quality mindset. You enjoy collaborating with a diverse group of people, you are passionate about what you do, have a high interest in keeping up with current best practices in your areas of expertise and you look at programming languages as tools and not constraints. You see yourself as leader who nurtures our culture of collaboration, communication, and coordination between and within teams. We need our engineers to be versatile, capable of mentoring and enthusiastic about taking on new challenges as we continue to push technology forward.
Your experience has given you the perspective to help Software Engineers prioritize their tasks, shape their career decisions, and face tricky challenges. You are curious about both technology and people. You acknowledge that the most complex problems are really people based. Besides of all of that you’re not afraid to go out of your comfort zone.
Required:
Being supportive to people around and finding joy in inspiring others
A can-do attitude, taking pride in team’s work and an ability to keep up momentum
Ability to find good in people and make them want to grow
A problem-solving attitude, i.e. not just focused on writing code, but on tackling complex problems and determining how best to solve them
Familiarity with software development methodologies, web-based technologies, and cloud-based platforms
A test-first mindset where your values are aligned with engineering quality practices
Experience with object-oriented programming languages, preferably Java and clean code/architecture principles
A personal interest in keeping up with the general trends of software product development
Good communication skills, must be fluent in English
Worked in Agile development teams
OUR OFFER:
A collaborative environment with colleagues from all over the world (Engineering offices in Europe, Asia and US).
Involvement in shaping your own workday and career through high degree of freedom to choose technology and your personal development.
The opportunity to work and develop within an inspiring and fast-growing company.
The possibility to help shaping the future of Sportradar. All developers are directly contributing to products used by our clients in the global sports business.
A company culture that promotes kindness, sports, physical exercise and teamplay.
Innovative and cross-team challenges like Ship-It, office sports tournaments in Darts, Table Tennis and Table Football.
Competitive salary and benefits (e.g. retirement pension and insurance plan)
Possibility to work from home office when needed.
Vibrant Women in Tech community inside the company inclusive for everyone to participate in
Inclusive Sportradar Pride group
At Sportradar, we celebrate our diverse group of hardworking employees. Sportradar is committed to ensuring equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment opportunities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. We encourage you to apply even if you only meet most of the requirements (but not 100% of the listed criteria) – we believe skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and grow with us, we invite you to join our team!
