AgentOps Technical Lead

Description

The company is an online gambling business that has operated since 2000 and now employs over 10,000 people across 26 languages and more than 120 million customers.

The new AgentOps team designs, builds, deploys and maintains AI-driven solutions that make business functions more efficient and connect them with the wider business systems.

The company's In-Play betting is its market leader, with over 1.38 million In-Play sporting events a year, more than 750 concurrent fixtures at peak, 750,000 live sports streams in Europe, over 6 million HTTP requests daily and more than 1.5 million bets per hour at peak.

This role is the senior technical authority for the team and its lead engineer, working alongside the AgentOps Team Leader and the Innovation Team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design, architecture and build of complex AI and automation solutions on internal and third party platforms.
• Mentor the AI Engineers through code reviews, pair programming and knowledge sharing.
• Write the hardest development tasks yourself and set the bar for code quality and new ideas.
• Set and enforce best practices for architecture, development, testing and deployment so the team's work stays consistent.
• Make key architecture decisions so solutions are scalable, maintainable and secure, in line with business and IT strategy.
• Be the main escalation point for the toughest technical problems and lead the debugging and fixes.
• Turn the Team Leader's goals into technical roadmaps and specifications.
• Research, assess and promote new technologies, tools and methods, working with the Innovation Team.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in a senior engineering role, such as Senior Software Developer, Senior Automation Engineer or similar.
• Expert programming skills and a record of designing and building complex, scalable software.
• In-depth knowledge of software architecture patterns, design principles and data structures.
• Experience mentoring engineers, running constructive code reviews and leading technical discussions.
• Ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, with a knack for diagnosing and resolving hard technical problems.

Conditions

The listed salary is $150,000 to $160,000 per year.