Hybrid Lead Software Engineer

at Betfair Romania Development

• Job title: Lead Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Docker, Gradle, Hibernate, Java, Jenkins, JUnit, Kafka, Linux, Maven, Mockito, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cluj Napoca, Romania

About the role

• Lead Software Engineer responsible for scalable systems at FanDuel. Mentoring engineers and influencing technical strategy within a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Own your teams’ architecture, aligning with the vertical's Principal Engineers on a common technical strategy.
• Take ownership of a team’s operational excellence, taking a hands on approach to the resolution of the teams’ most complex issues when needed.
• Write simple code, taking complex paradigms and implementing them in a way that Engineers at all levels can understand and contribute to.
• Insist on high standards for code quality while not letting perfection be the enemy of good.
• Influence the strategy of the team(s), helping them understand how to make technical trade-off decisions between short-term business needs and long-term technology needs.
• Drive engineering engagement best practices (e.g., AI, Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and set standards for your vertical.
• Help others leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring in your organisation.
• Contribute to the professional development of Engineers within the vertical, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.
• Support our software as part of an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Expert level experience building and designing highly scalable, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
• Experience influencing technical decisions across 1-2 agile engineering teams.
• Understand a broad range of complex data structures and complex algorithms.
• Expert level understanding of design patterns and architectural principles.
• Experienced in making pragmatic trade-off decisions between short term needs and long-term needs.
• Experienced in many modern programming languages (ideally Java).
• Proven experience writing distributed, highly scalable, and available backend systems & APIs using Java SE and/or Java EE: beans, concurrency, transactions, I/O, servlets, messaging, application monitoring, ORM (Hibernate, JPA);
• Knowledge of release process best practices for APIs and services within production systems - build tools (e.g. BuildKite, Maven, Gradle), version control (e.g. git) and continuous integration systems (e.g. Jenkins).
• Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS.
• A fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Hands-on experience with unit testing/mocking frameworks (e.g. junit, mockito).
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and software best practices.
• Experience with testing concepts, test tools, and integrating testing and best practices in the SDLC.
• Desire to learn and develop your skills through a growth mindset.
• Passion for working within a fast-paced environment and can adapt to change.
• Experience with using AI coding assistants and agentic models such as CoPilot, Cursor in a business setting
• Exposure to Linux operating systems.
• Experience using non relational databases (e.g. MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase).
• Familiarity with AWS / Cloud Computing (e.g. S3, SQS, SNS);
• Experience with analysis & monitoring tools (e.g. DataDog, NewRelic);
• Contact with messaging technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka);
• Container experience (e.g. Docker);
• Knowledge of caching systems (e.g. Redis);
• Understanding of the full development cycle and some experience of Agile development methodologies and supporting tools e.g. JIRA, Confluence.

Benefits

• Hybrid & remote working options
• €1,000 per year for self-development
• Company share scheme
• 25 days of annual leave per year
• 20 days per year to work abroad
• 5 personal days/year
• Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
• Extended health, dental and travel insurances
• Customized well-being programmes
• Career growth sessions
• Thousands of online courses through Udemy
• A variety of engaging office events