Engineering Manager - Brand Experience

Responsibilities

• ▹Build and lead well-structured, highly functional teams with a culture of ownership and collaboration, driving excellence in hiring, onboarding and career development and removing anything that holds the team back
• ▹Deliver on time and to a high standard, using clear performance metrics to track progress and continuously improve team and development processes
• ▹Promote ownership of system health, performance and stability, ensuring effective support processes are in place and SLAs are monitored and met
• ▹Be an active member of the area's leadership team, working with Product and Architecture to align the team with strategy, standards and business goals
• ▹Share best practices with engineering leaders across the organisation
• ▹Plan and scope the product and technical development roadmap with product, architecture and design counterparts

Requirements

• ▹Excellent communicator: communicates clearly, honestly and directly with the team, fellow Engineering Managers and the Head of Engineering, adapting the message to the audience
• ▹Team building and collaboration: builds collaborative teams where people support each other, share knowledge and take shared ownership of outcomes
• ▹Team planning and resourcing: identifies gaps in skills, roles and capacity and closes them proactively through hiring, upskilling and planning
• ▹People management: manages the team day to day with fairness and consistency, running one to ones, performance reviews and hiring, and handling conflict, absence and HR processes with care
• ▹People development: invests in every team member's growth through regular feedback, clear goals and career support, addressing performance concerns early and fairly
• ▹Technical understanding: a solid engineering background, partnering with Tech Leads and Architects
• ▹Delivery and execution: manages priorities, dependencies and risks, balancing delivery pressure with a sustainable pace
• ▹Stakeholder management: strong relationships with Product, Design, QA, Architecture and other teams
• ▹Continuous improvement: uses data and team feedback to refine processes and engineering practices
• ▹Culture and wellbeing: leads with empathy and fairness, building an inclusive team and watching wellbeing and workload

Nice to have

• ▹Industry experience in iGaming, fintech or similar high-traffic, regulated industries, with an understanding of compliance and responsible gaming
• ▹Experience leading teams across multiple locations or time zones
• ▹Hands-on experience with Scrum, Kanban or similar frameworks
• ▹Experience supporting production environments, leading teams through incidents and learning from post-incident reviews
• ▹Experience managing or contributing to team budgets, including tooling, training and events

Soft skills

About the company

Betsson is a fast-paced international company of about 1,700 people across 7 offices, with 900 based at its Malta headquarters.