Engineering Manager

3 Hours ago • All levels • Product Management • Frontend Development

About the job

Summary

Playtech seeks a proactive Engineering Manager to lead Agile deliveries, ensuring a predictable and steady pace. Responsibilities include collaborating with stakeholders, other development teams, Product, UX, and Program Management to optimize end-to-end deliveries. The role requires practicing situational leadership, promoting team self-organization, and managing people (goal setting, performance reviews, salary reviews, competence development, and recruitment). The ideal candidate will have several years of experience leading high-performing Agile teams, possess strong leadership and coaching skills, and have hands-on Java development and management experience. A drive to enable and challenge the team to excel is essential. The role involves leading a team working on a comprehensive web-based online platform offering a wide variety of games and extensive back-office admin tools.
Must have:
  • Lead high-performing Agile teams
  • Strong leadership & coaching skills
  • Hands-on Java development experience
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Manage people and their development
Good to have:
  • Higher technical education
  • Experience building software
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Company Description

About Playtech 
Founded in 1999 and listed on the London Stock Exchange's Main Market, Playtech is a technology leader in the gaming industry with over 7,000 employees across 20 countries. Playtech delivers business intelligence-driven gaming software, services, content, and platform technology, making it a leader in the industry. To learn more about Playtech's company culture, visit https://www.playtechpeople.com/

Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Recognizing differences and ensuring our processes are transparent is the core of Playtech's overall commitment to responsible business practices. 

Ready to level up your career?  

Playtech is looking for a proactive Engineering Manager with high energy, excellent communication and high-end leadership skills. 

Job Description

Your influential mission. You will... 

  • Be a key person to keep our Agile deliveries flowing at a predictable and steady pace
  • Bring together the team with stakeholders, other development teams, Product, UX and Program Management to create the best possible end-to-end deliveries 
  • Practise situational leadership between coaching, project management, technical management and people management 
  • Promote team’s self-organization and ownership making sure that commitments are met and deliveries are made on time with an excellent quality 
  • Take care of people management responsibilities including goal setting, performance reviews, salary reviews, competence development and recruitment 

Qualifications

Components for success. You...

  • Have a few years of experience leading high-performing Agile teams 
  • Continuously develop your leadership skills and drive your own personal growth 
  • Are a structured “people person” with an ability to understand and participate in technical discussions 
  • Possess high-end leadership skills with a coaching mindset 
  • Have previous hands-on experience as a Java Developer
  • Have previous hands-on management experience
  • Have a drive to enable and challenge the team to excel, grow and continuously improve 
  • Can quickly gain a good high-level grasp of complex environments and collaborate effectively with other teams 
  • Are fluent in English 
  • Experience and demonstrate shared company values such as respect, excellence, integrity, performence and innovation 

You'll get extra points for... 

  • Having a higher technical education or working experience associated with building software 

Thrive in a culture that values...  

  • Initiative-taking and confident approach at the workplace 
  • Global scope and inclusive working environment 
  • Constant learning and development opportunities 
  • Active lifestyle and mental well-being 
  • Fun and engaging company events 

Additional Information

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAM 
Our team is offering innovative and diverse digital products that meet the needs and wants of our customers and their end users. Our core product is a comprehensive web-based online platform that provides a wide variety of games supplemented by content. The product is offering includes extensive back-office admin tools allowing our customers to customize the games they make available to the end users. 

Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work. 

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About The Company

Founded in 1999 and premium listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech is a technology leader in the gambling industry with over 7300 employees in 19 countries


Playtech is the gambling industry’s leading software and services supplier and partners with many of the world’s leading regulated online, retail and mobile operators, land-based casino groups, government sponsored entities such as lotteries, and new entrants opening operations in newly-regulated markets. Its business intelligence-driven gambling software offering includes casino, live casino, bingo, poker and sports betting.


We are the pioneers of Omni-channel gambling which, through Playtech ONE, offers operators and their customers, a seamless, anytime, anywhere experience across any product, any channel (online, mobile, retail) and any device using a single account and single wallet. It provides marketing expertise, sophisticated CRM solutions and other services for operators seeking a full turnkey solution.


The company has won numerous awards including the prestigious Gaming Intelligence Game of the Year award 2018 for its Age of the Gods games that includes slots, table games and live casino.


Alongside our own cutting-edge gaming studios and content we license some of the world's most popular brands from Hollywood studios including Warner Bros. Consumer Products on behalf of DC Entertainment, Paramount, Fox, NBC Universal, MGM and many more.


Playtech Financials operates both on a B2C and B2B basis. Our B2C focused offering is an established and growing online CFDs broker, operating the brand markets.com. Our B2B offering includes the division's proprietary trading platform, CRM and back-office systems, as well as its liquidity technology platform which provides retail brokers with multi-asset execution, prime brokerage services, liquidity and complementary risk management tools.


If you are an ambitious, creative thinker and would like to work for us we want to hear from you!


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