Lead Frontend Engineer

At BlueLabs we're combining the buzzing world of sports betting with modern tech and a great engineering culture. We own our multi-tenant sports betting platform end-to-end. It consists of tens of microservices in a handful decoupled domains, orchestrated by a terraform-provisioned Kubernetes cluster, achieving high scalability thanks to an event-driven architecture based on Apache Pulsar. We follow modern CI/CD and agile methodologies to deploy into production multiple times per day and use Datadog to monitor our infrastructure and applications.

We're now looking for a Lead Frontend Engineer to join our Client Team. You'll manage our team of frontend engineers and play a key role in the development of our player-facing web and mobile applications using latest technologies. We're open to experiment with new and emerging technologies - our application is built using SvelteKit and we utilise TypeScript for the entire codebase to improve code quality and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead our 4-strong frontend engineering team implementing robust and rich, usable, frontend experiences
• Oversee the scope and implementation of new features and systems that are reliable, performant, and secure at scale
• Spend the majority of your time with actual engineering work, contributing to the codebase
• Collaborate with software engineers, product managers and designers in an autonomous, supportive team environment
• Solve problems in a highly technical platform that is onboarding tens of thousands of new players every month
• Take ownership of the whole software development life cycle - architecture, development, testing, deployment, monitoring
• Take part in our on-call rotation every few weeks — we build it, we run it
  
• Mentor other engineers on best practices, code design considerations, and quality
• Improve our planning, development, and deployment processes to help you and your team members

However, that's not all! At BlueLabs, we encourage you to contribute wherever your interests take you — and shape your role and our product accordingly.

Compensation

The compensation range for this role is €70,000 to €100,000 annually, depending on your background and experience. We encourage you to read our Recruitment FAQs for further details. In addition to the monetary compensation, we provide a number of perks to all team members, including a shiny new MacBook 16" M1 Pro or Linux laptop.

• 5+ years experience in developing complex responsive web applications, of these 2+ years managing and scaling engineering teams in a growth environment

• Experience with Typescript or with strongly typed languages

• Solid experience with at least one major frontend framework and willingness to work with Svelte

• Proficient user of a modern development toolchain: linters, package managers, bundlers, Git, continuous integration pipelines and familiarity with automated testing frameworks

• Value accountability and will support your team in reaching their fullest potential

• Excellent communication in verbal and written English with both technical and business parties

Nice to have

• Experience with Node.js and full-stack development

• Experience with logging and monitoring tools

• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure providers (Google Cloud)

• An interest in sports or experience with sports betting