Squad Engineering Leader

Sportradar is a global leader, provide cutting-edge data solutions and services to media companies, bookmakers, sports federations and state authorities. We are the trusted partner of more than 1,000 companies in over 100 countries, and we employ over 2,000 people in more than 30 locations around the world.

Based in Seville, OptimaMGS is the Upstream Data platform of Sportradar's world-leading sports betting services, providing data to hundreds of Bookmakers around the globe, seen by millions of users daily, and supporting more than 100k transactions per second.

We are always looking for motivated, confident, team-oriented individuals who possess excellent skills and strive for best practices

THE ROLE:
As a Squad Engineering Lead at Sportradar, you will be responsible for leading and guiding the most important part of our engineering organisation - our people. Accountable for team delivery you will serve as leader to improve productivity and predictability, and nurture our culture of collaboration, communication, and coordination between and within teams.

Prior to taking on engineering leadership, you likely were a senior software engineer with a comprehensive understanding of complex systems that you were a vital part of developing & launching over the years.

Your experience has given you the perspective to help other engineers prioritise their tasks, shape their career decisions, and face tricky challenges. We are also expecting you to keep up to date with engineering best practices, making you better equipped when helping your employees decide what competencies they want to develop.

We are product-oriented engineers with a growth mindset.

THE CHALLENGE:

- Responsible for software delivery for one or more squads
- Working collaboratively with product owners, other leaders and engineers to create the best product for our customers.
- Analyse the scope of Product Team initiatives and coordinate with other squads to estimate, map dependencies, plan sprints, resolve blockers and ensure timely release to market.
- Provide an agile working environment, organising and facilitating the team’s scrum events.
- Ensure the teams’ efficiency and high-quality work: enforce tech excellence, tech debt management and regular adjustment of processes and timelines in line with continuous improvement philosophy.
- Coordinate release activities, including clear and detailed plans or checklists for testing and roll-out.
- Responsible for developing our people
- Coach engineers to grow in a professional (improving skills, problem-solving abilities) and personal way (by supporting and giving them frequent feedback).
- Conduct regular check-ins and 1-1
- Learning and sharing experiences on new technologies and trends and how you can leverage them in current and future products.
- Exhibiting passion and advocate to drive change.
- Understanding how our business works and how products add value to your customers. Show engineers how their work impacts the product (bigger picture).

YOUR PROFILE:

- Hands-on people management experience (incl. on/off-boarding process, performance management, talent development)
- A knack for effective and clear communication in all circumstances.
- Extensive professional experience in software development, working on robust, complex systems that serve a high volume of users.
- Strong technical leadership experience; an appreciation for engineering best practices and quality over quantity of work.
- A passion for bringing great products into our world through collaboration and ingenuity.

OUR OFFER:

- Exciting job field with the opportunity for personal development
- A challenging but rewarding and fun environment
- Hybrid working model, combining home office and work from the office
- Access to our online e-learning platform
- Competitive salary