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Caesars Sportsbook & Casino · 1 day ago

Back End Tech Lead (Scala)

Jersey City, NJ

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$200K/yr - $235K/yr

5+ years exp

Caesars Sportsbook & Casino is a part of Caesars Entertainment, a leader in the gaming industry with a commitment to digital innovation and customer experience. The Tech Lead will manage a team of engineers, ensuring technical excellence and smooth delivery while mentoring team members and contributing to the improvement of development processes.

AppsCasinoGamblingGaming

Responsibilities

Directly contribute to team efforts by writing and reviewing impactful Scala code as well as code and config related to Kubernetes and Gitlab deployments

Develop, implement, and maintain best practices and standards that drive higher quality and operational excellence within your team

Perform quality control by ensuring effective code reviews and addressing technical debt alongside product development

Collaborate with Solutions Architects to create and review architectural documentation before team engagement

Track your team’s technical debt and advocate for time to address technical issues alongside product development

Ensure adherence to Agile/Scrum best practices throughout delivery in partnership with the Delivery Lead

Collaborate with Product in planning activities, including sizing of work, identifying risks and dependencies, and assigning out user stories to team members

Support engineers through refinement, breaking down requirements into technical tasks, user story creation, and providing estimations. Push back on unrealistic timelines as needed

Hold the team accountable throughout delivery, ensuring that the team follows appropriate processes

Report out on progress against prioritized initiatives to stakeholders. Regularly communicate engineering risks and dependencies

Support the team in feature readiness, including preparing for releases and deployments

Act as the direct manager of a team of engineers. Conduct regular 1:1s, provide mentorship, and deliver constructive feedback to foster team growth

Support hiring and people management processes

Qualification

ScalaAWSAPIsAgile/ScrumKafkaObservability toolsSoftware architectureRelational databasesNon-relational databasesTechnical debt managementDelivery-focused mindsetMentoringTeam management

Required

5+ years of progressive experience as a software engineer, preferably within high-growth or real-time systems like betting or transactional platforms

Proven ability to mentor, guide, and develop engineers with 1+ year experience managing software engineers preferred

Extensive engineering experience in: Scala and related frameworks (Zio or Cats-effect), Building and maintaining APIs for high-throughput, real-time applications, Utilizing AWS for cloud-native architectures, Kafka and other NRT messaging platforms, OLTP systems critical to real-time transaction processing, Relational and non-relational databases like Cassandra, Redis, Postgresql

Observability tools like Splunk and NewRelic

Experience designing software architecture for scalable, distributed systems

Strong expertise in Agile product delivery and Scrum methodologies

Demonstrated bias toward action and ownership over key initiatives with a delivery-focused mindset

Benefits

Medical, vision, and dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

A 401(k)-matching program

Short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation

Paid Flexible Time Off

Paid company holidays

Company

Caesars Sportsbook & Casino

Behold! Caesars Sportsbook & Casino is here, and we’re proud to be a part of Caesars Entertainment—the number one gaming company in the world with over 80 years of sports betting expertise.

Founded in 1934

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

1001-5000 employees