Technical Lead

**At PointsBet, we have only built a fraction of what we have imagined.**

Launching in Australia in 2017, PointsBet are dedicated to providing our customers with the ultimate betting experience. We're on a mission to make racing and sports betting easier to understand, fun to use and faster. After some recent business changes, PointsBet Australia is about to head into a exciting stage of it's journey and as we continue to grow, we're looking for Technical Lead to join our Odds Factory team.

As a Technical Lead in the Odds Factory domain, you will support the Principal Engineer and the overall engineering department in leading and guiding a cross-functional development team and driving quality product development through delivery expertise & development, leadership, maintenance, and operational support of the systems built within PointsBet teams.

Leveraging your thought leadership skills, you'll engage, educate and enable your team and other parts of the engineering department with shaping the ways we work. You will be part of and help to promote a diverse and agile team, building & operating world-class services to support business-critical systems.

This role has an important part as a people leader where you will be driving high employee engagement and coaching and mentoring of team members.

**What you’ll own**:

- Provide all necessary support to the Scrum team(s) whenever possible, leading by example rather than process
- Plan, schedule, and facilitate solution design and estimation sessions
- Provide day‐to‐day thought leadership and technical guidance
- Own team adherence to team objectives including design, coding practices, quality assurance, continuous integration, and continuous delivery processes to ensure solutions are fit for purpose
- Manage business expectations and project delivery times, ensure the team meets timelines and delivery commitments made, escalating issues early
- Communicate any risks associated with projects being progressed by the team
- Own the team’s development work from planning through to deployment
- Actively contribute to relevant internal technical forums, respectfully providing opinions and suggestions
- Translate product owner expectations into fully developed functionality that meets functional and non‐functional requirements
- Maintain and support PointsBet’s websites and back-office systems
- Mentor and foster growth in Developers both inside and outside your team
- Contribute to the broader business through product stakeholder discussions
- Propose solutions to business problems or features
- Identify and present the technical trade‐offs and risks of different development approaches in a meaningful way
- Ensure that a variety of concerns are taken into consideration when designing technical solutions including performance, scalability, availability, and security
- Contribute to team members career goals and objectives, including performance review discussions
- Lead knowledge sharing sessions and encourage others to share knowledge and expertise
- Contribute to talent acquisition and hiring

**The skills we seek**:

- Experience in a leadership role, developing and supporting a cross functional team of 3+ members
- Extensive experience working across technology teams/environments
- Experience with managing communications and setting expectations with stakeholders
- Strong collaboration skills

**The PB Perks**
- PointsBet Flex Program - Filled with Hybrid Working, Work from Anywhere weeks, Sabbatical Leave to name a few.
- PointsBet Day - Get your PointsBet anniversary off.
- Annual Bonus Scheme - We reward great work, earn even more on top of our competitive salary packages.
- Parental Leave - 18 weeks for Primary Carers and 4 weeks for Secondary Carers.
- Daily breakfasts, sporting event tickets, a range of wellness programs.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $160,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Free drinks
- Free food
- Referral program
- Work from home

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Fixed shift
- Monday to Friday

Supplementary Pay:

- Performance bonus

Work Location: In person