Team Lead - Payments

Overview of the Role

This role opening is for the Payments Squad within the Player Platform Tribe. Each tribe is composed of squads (typically 5-10 engineers) that focus on delivering features and services in their corresponding technical domain.

The Team Lead is accountable for the technical and operational leadership of the squad. While continuing to foster a collaborative and supportive work culture, this role places strong emphasis on people's management, technical leadership and ownership, architectural direction, innovation, and reliable delivery.

The Team Lead is a hands-on Technical Leader who combines deep engineering expertise with strong leadership, delivery drive, system ownership and collaboration skills . This role bridges the gap between technical strategy and day-to-day execution, driving engineering excellence, guiding the team in building scalable and performant solutions, and ensuring alignment with product goals and architectural standards.

You’ll be both a mentor and a maker , l eading by example in code quality, design , and decision-making , while empowering your team to deliver impactful, reliable, and well-crafted software.

What you'll do:

Engineering People Management

· Participate in the recruitment process with a focus on both technical proficiency and cultural fit.

· Guide and mentor engineers to close technical skill gaps and build delivery capabilities aligned with business goals.

· Directly manage engineers through regular 1:1s and performance reviews focused on evaluating and growth of technical skill sets, such as code quality, system design thinking, and problem-solving.

· Foster a psychologically safe, collaborative, and technically curious team environment.

· Manage scheduling, time off

· Organize and participate in on-call rotations and app support to maintain service continuity.

· Develop and motivate engineers through clear growth plans, ensuring clarity, accountability, and follow-ups.

· Ensure the team consistently delivers roadmap items in alignment with the company’s vision and mission.

· Measure team effectiveness using agreed metrics

Related duties as assigned

Foster a Sustainable & Scalable Engineering Culture

· Spend up to 50% of the time leading engineering, coding and delivering practices by example . Including technologies such as C#, .NET, NodeJS, PHP, Go, Groovy, Angular, React, Java, JavaScript and various libraries, and with tools, platforms, systems such as: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, BitBucket, SonarQube, Grafana, NPM, WildFly, Jetty, Nginx, Kafka, ActiveMQ, Ubuntu, Playwright, RestAssured and AWS which may be added to or changed per the business requirements.

· Define and drive the technical vision , standards , and best practice s for respective domain architecture, performance, and maintainability.

· Remain hands-on , leading by example in coding, design, and code reviews.

· Serve as the technical owner of the squad’s systems and applications, ensuring long-term reliability, scalability, testability, and maintainability.

· Collaborate with other teams to design and evolve system interfaces, data contracts, and application flows.

· Balance innovation with practicality by making architectural decisions that support immediate delivery and long-term sustainability.

· Champion engineering best practices, clean code, modular design, semantic versioning, observability, and CI/CD automation.

· Ensure adherence to SDLC principles in close partnership with Scrum Master, Product, QA, Delivery and Architects.

· Manage and prioritize technical debt, codebase health, and aging risk.

· Drive adoption of technical enablers such as:

· Technical designs

· Code reviews

· Semantic versioning

· Branching strategies

· Static analysis tools

· CI/CD automation

· Testing and automation frameworks

· Monitoring, observability, and alerting

· And other as agreed in the engineering vertical

· Ensure systems meet regulatory and compliance standards from technical perspective

· Input into framework & language choice, development build and deployment tooling

· Ensure backlog includes a healthy balance of new features and operational work, respecting SLA commitments

Related duties as assigned

Champion Quality and Continuous Improvement

· Lead planning , estimation, and prioritization of technical tasks ensuring timely, high-quality deliverables.

· Contribute directly to coding, reviews, and debugging to ensure consistent standards.

· Collaborate with QA, Architects, Product, DevOps and other teams to deliver high-quality, testable, and reliable software

· Analise team effectiveness using agreed metrics

· Lead technical expertise in incident management, root cause analysis, post incident decisions, and oversee any remedial work is carried out.

· Set high standards in code reviews, refactoring, test automation, and architecture decisions.

· Promote innovation , technical experimentation , and i nternal knowledge sharing .

· Ensure Definition of Done is achieved, including documentation, testing, and observability.

· Related duties as assigned

Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication

· Act as a technical point of contact for stakeholders, ensuring technical decisions are clearly communicated and well understood.

· Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, and Engineering Managers to shape project goals, technical roadmaps, and delivery strategies.

· Represent the technical domain discipline in tribe-level planning, design discussions, and architecture reviews.

· Communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and dependencies transparently.

· Related duties as assigned

What you'll Bring:

Working Experience:

· 6+ years of experience in building modern applications with at least 2 years in a lead or senior technical role.

· Experience with mentoring or leading engineering teams and delivering large-scale application;

· Experience working with high-performant SaaS products;

· Experience working with cross functional teams in a technology domain.

· Experience in developing and maintaining systems in the corresponding technical domain

· Hands-on technical experience with technical enablers: CI/CD pipelines, code versioning and delivery, code quality tools, observability and others.

Standard Qualifications:

· Good understanding of agile and scrum methodologies;

· Proficiency with Atlassian tools (especially JIRA & Confluence);

· Advanced level of English Language.

Technical Competences

This part should be per team/squad

It should be equivalent to senior level technical competences requirement

Personal Attributes

· Strong leadership

· Strong mentorship that develops others and promotes knowledge sharing.

· Technical excellence and a hands-on approach

· Ownership , accountability , and delivery focus

· Initiative , vision, and proactive problem-solving

· Empathy , resilience , and the ability to make tough decisions

· Effective communicator with solid negotiation and presentation skills

· Analytical , fast-thinking, and structured reasoning

· Strong adaptability that responds well to change and balances competing priorities.

· Strong organizational and time management skills

About Flutter CEE

We are Flutter Central & Eastern Europe (CEE).

As a proud member of the Flutter family - a global leader in sports betting and iGaming - we are building one of the Group’s most dynamic tech and product hubs in Central and Eastern Europe. We aren’t just here to participate. We’re here to change the game.

By uniting local powerhouses like MaxBet, Adjarabet.com, and Adjarabet.am, we combine deep regional expertise with the scale and strength of Flutter’s global platforms. We’re setting a new standard for entertainment, responsibility, and innovation - powered by real customer signals that shape everything we build.

Settling for the status quo isn’t in our DNA. We build systems designed to scale.

We’re moving faster, thinking bigger, and putting our customers exactly where they belong: at the heart of every decision. We start by listening to our customers and the communities we serve. What we see, hear, and learn become clear signals, and those signals quickly shape product decisions, better experiences, and responsible innovation.

Technology powers our ambition. The Signature System - our operating model - makes our signal-led approach repeatable and scalable across markets. It’s how we move fast and grow with confidence.

As part of Flutter, we benefit from the Group’s collective advantage - the Flutter Edge. It allows us to identify success in one market, replicate it across brands, and implement proven ideas quickly - with customers always at the forefront.

We’re a team of thousands, driven by a challenger mindset and a shared commitment to lead. We are shaping the future of iGaming in Central and Eastern Europe right here, right now, and our technology and product teams are defining what responsible innovation looks like in practice - not just in theory.

We are Flutter Central & Eastern Europe (CEE).

Built on experience. Built to lead.

Local champions. Global infrastructure.

Why choose us

At Flutter CEE, people have access to vast opportunities for career growth and self-development. Our employee benefits package goes far beyond offering the minimum: We support our people in becoming their best version at work and beyond - and our benefits reflect that commitment.  

These are some of the benefits included in our employee package:  

Generous annual leave 

Hybrid work

Individual health insurance 

Paid sick leave 

Paid maternity & paternity leave 

Family reward

Performance & referral bonuses