Tech Lead (Web/Frontend) - Sportsbetting

As a Tech Lead, you will manage a team of engineers, ensuring smooth delivery within a Scrum framework. You will mentor team members, enforce best practices, be responsible for your team’s quality output, and actively contribute to improving development processes. You will also write code and pick up user stories to keep your team on track. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, ownership of technical excellence, and the ability to drive high-quality deliverables. 

This role will be hybrid, in the Jersey City, NJ office 3 times per week. Candidates must also be willing to travel on-site to complete onboarding orientation as dictated by the hiring team.

What You Will Do: 

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

• Advocate for and oversee the delivery of high-quality, test-automated code. 

• 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. 

• Directly contribute to team efforts by picking up user stories each sprint. 

• Support developers 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. 

What You Will Need: 

• 5+ years of progressive experience as a software engineer, preferably within a high growth product tech environment. 

• Proven ability to train, mentor, and guide engineers. 

• Demonstrated bias to action and ownership over key initiatives. 

• Extensive highly competent engineering experience in Javascript, React, and other modern web frameworks. 

• Possess in-depth knowledge of popular hybrid app development frameworks like React Native, Ionic, Flutter, or Capacitor, and stay updated on emerging technologies. 

• Ability to design scalable, maintainable, and robust hybrid app architecture. 

• Lead the development process for both the native mobile app components (iOS and Android) and the web-based portions of the app, ensuring consistent functionality and user interface across platforms. 

• Experience working with Android Studio and or Xcode. 

• Hands-on engineering experience utilizing AWS (Amazon Web Services). 

• Experience in designing software architecture. 

• Foundational understanding of backend technologies, including API development, databases, and reactive programming. 

• Expertise in Agile software product delivery and Scrum. 
  Strong delivery mind-set. 

• 1+ year experience managing software engineers preferred.