Job Description

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Overview of the Role

This role opening is for the Payments Squad within the Player Platform Tribe. Each tribe is composed of squads (typically 5-10 engineers) that focus on delivering features and services in their corresponding technical domain.  

The Team Lead is accountable for the technical and operational leadership of the squad. While continuing to foster a collaborative and supportive work culture, this role places strong emphasis on people's management, technical leadership and ownership, architectural direction, innovation, and reliable delivery.   

The Team Lead is a hands-on Technical Leader who combines deep engineering expertise with strong leadership, delivery drive, system ownership and collaboration skills . This role bridges the gap between technical strategy and day-to-day execution, driving engineering excellence, guiding the team in building scalable and performant solutions, and ensuring alignment with product goals and architectural standards. 

You’ll be both a mentor and a maker , l eading by example in code quality, design , and decision-making , while empowering your team to deliver impactful, reliable, and well-crafted software. 

What you'll do:

Engineering People Management

Participate in the recruitment process with a focus on both technical proficiency and cultural fit. 

Guide and mentor engineers to close technical skill gaps and build delivery capabilities aligned with business goals.  

Directly manage engineers through regular 1:1s and performance reviews focused on evaluating and growth of technical skill sets, such as code quality, system design thinking, and problem-solving. 

Foster a psychologically safe, collaborative, and technically curious team environment.  

Manage scheduling, time off 

Organize and participate in on-call rotations and app support to maintain service continuity. 

Develop and motivate engineers through clear growth plans, ensuring clarity, accountability, and follow-ups. 

Ensure the team consistently delivers roadmap items in alignment with the company’s vision and mission. 

Measure team effectiveness using agreed metrics 

Related duties as assigned

Foster a Sustainable & Scalable Engineering Culture

Spend up to 50% of the time leading engineering, coding and delivering practices by example . Including technologies such as C#, .NET, NodeJS, PHP, Go, Groovy, Angular, React, Java, JavaScript and various libraries, and with tools, platforms, systems such as: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, BitBucket, SonarQube, Grafana, NPM, WildFly, Jetty, Nginx, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Ubuntu, Playwright, RestAssured and AWS which may be added to or changed per the business requirements. 

Define and drive the technical vision , standards , and best practice s for respective domain architecture, performance, and maintainability. 

Remain hands-on , leading by example in coding, design, and code reviews. 

Serve as the technical owner of the squad’s systems and applications, ensuring long-term reliability, scalability, testability, and maintainability. 

Collaborate with other teams to design and evolve system interfaces, data contracts, and application flows. 

Balance innovation with practicality by making architectural decisions that support immediate delivery and long-term sustainability. 

Champion engineering best practices, clean code, modular design, semantic versioning, observability, and CI/CD automation. 

Ensure adherence to SDLC principles in close partnership with Scrum Master, Product, QA, Delivery and Architects.  

Manage and prioritize technical debt, codebase health, and aging risk. 

Drive adoption of technical enablers such as: 

Technical designs 

Code reviews  

Semantic versioning 

Branching strategies 

Static analysis tools  

CI/CD automation  

Testing and automation frameworks 

Monitoring, observability, and alerting  

And other as agreed in the engineering vertical 

Ensure systems meet regulatory and compliance standards from technical perspective 

Input into framework & language choice, development build and deployment tooling 

Ensure backlog includes a healthy balance of new features and operational work, respecting SLA commitments

Related duties as assigned

Champion Quality and Continuous Improvement

Lead planning , estimation, and prioritization of technical tasks ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables. 

Contribute directly to coding, reviews, and debugging to ensure consistent standards. 

Collaborate with QA, Architects, Product, DevOps and other teams to deliver high-quality, testable, and reliable software 

Analise team effectiveness using agreed metrics 

Lead technical expertise in incident management, root cause analysis, post incident decisions, and oversee any remedial work is carried out.  

Set high standards in code reviews, refactoring, test automation, and architecture decisions. 

Promote innovation , technical experimentation , and i nternal knowledge sharing . 

Ensure Definition of Done is achieved, including documentation, testing, and observability. 

Related duties as assigned

Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication

Act as a technical point of contact for stakeholders, ensuring technical decisions are clearly communicated and well understood. 

Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, and Engineering Managers to shape project goals, technical roadmaps, and delivery strategies. 

Represent the technical domain discipline in tribe-level planning, design discussions, and architecture reviews. 

Communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and dependencies transparently. 

Related duties as assigned

What you'll Bring:

Working Experience:

6+ years of experience in building modern applications with at least 2 years in a lead or senior technical role. 

Experience with mentoring or leading engineering teams and delivering large-scale application; 

Experience working with high-performant SaaS products; 

Experience working with cross functional teams in a technology domain. 

Experience in developing and maintaining systems in the corresponding technical domain  

Hands-on technical experience with technical enablers: CI/CD pipelines, code versioning and delivery, code quality tools, observability and others. 

Standard Qualifications: 

Good understanding of agile and scrum methodologies; 

Proficiency with Atlassian tools (especially JIRA & Confluence); 

Advanced level of English Language. 

Technical Competences  

This part should be per team/squad 

It should be equivalent to senior level technical competences requirement 

Personal Attributes 

Strong leadership 

Strong mentorship that develops others and promotes knowledge sharing. 

Technical excellence and a hands-on approach 

Ownership , accountability , and delivery focus 

Initiative , vision, and proactive problem-solving 

Empathy , resilience , and the ability to make tough decisions

Effective communicator with solid negotiation and presentation skills 

Analytical , fast-thinking, and structured reasoning 

Strong adaptability that responds well to change and balances competing priorities. 

Strong organizational and time management skills 

About Singular   

Singular is an international iGaming software provider headquartered in Malta, with offices in North Macedonia and Georgia. We provide our platform solutions to some of the most innovative and well-known brands in the sports betting and gaming industry.  

As of 2021, we're part of Flutter International, the world’s leading online sports betting and iGaming operator. Together, we create the future of entertainment – and you can join us too.   

Why choose us  

At Singular, people have access to vast opportunities for career growth and self-development. Our employee benefits package goes far beyond offering the minimum: We support our people in becoming their best version at work and beyond - and our benefits reflect that commitment.   

These are some of the benefits included in our employee package:   

Generous annual leave  

Hybrid work 

Individual health insurance  

Paid sick leave  

Paid maternity & paternity leave  

Family reward

Performance & referral bonuses  

Loyalty award  

Equal opportunities   

As a brand of Flutter International, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where our people can be their authentic selves and thrive. We embrace and celebrate diversity, respecting all our uniqueness and differences.  

We welcome you to let us know whether you have any accessibility needs. All you need to do is email us at   jobs@singular.uk . Your journey with us is focused on ensuring you have what you need to be your best self.  

Learn more about the works we are doing on Inclusion and belonging here:    https://careers.flutterinternational.com/working-at-flutter-international/diversity-equity-inclusion/   

The Group    

Singular is a proud member of the Flutter Entertainment family, a global leader in sports betting, iGaming, and entertainment. We're not just another company we're listed on both the prestigious FTSE 100 index on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).   

What sets us apart is our world class brands, cutting-edge products, and our international division includes our operations in over 100 global markets and offers sports betting, casino, poker, rummy and lottery, mainly online.   

What truly defines us is our commitment to ensuring that the excitement of gaming and entertainment is experienced in a responsible and sustainable way. Our remarkable team of over 8,000 colleagues drives this vision, spread across 28 offices worldwide. 

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