Playtech develops unified software platforms and content for the online and land-based gaming industry, together with providing a range of ancillary services such as marketing, hosting and CRM services. Leading gaming applications include casino, poker, bingo, sports betting, live gaming, casual and fixed odds. 

Quickspin, a Playtech company, is expanding its product portfolio with a newly acquired games platform. This platform will be used to service all our major customers.
https://career.quickspin.com/departments/game-platform

We are now looking for a talented Technical Team lead to join our new Integrations and Backoffice team. This small team will, once operational, be responsible for maintaining and building new features in our Back-office system and to build and manage new high-performance integrations towards our long list of customers. The Back-office system is used for reporting, configurating and monitoring the gaming operation, is the hub for the whole operations and is used both by customers and internal users. The team will be given responsibility to create new features and functionalities, with high quality both in terms of reliability and but also to make sure that they are long term maintainable.

The Backoffice system is currently built in Ruby on Rails and MariaDB but the new team will decide on the technology choices for the future and be responsible for the upgrade plans. The team will also be in charge of continuously refactor and rebuild older areas of the system in-line with the team's long-term plans to remove technical debt and create a system that long term can support the business.

The integration layer towards b2b customers is built in Phyton and will be managed and developed together with other teams within Quickspin in order to provide new functionality and extremely high performance

As the team leader you will be in charge for setting up a working team structure according to Agile principles, help the team to make technical decisions when needed, provide estimates to management, talk to both customers and other Quickspin employees as well as guiding the team on how and when to perform various tasks.
 

What we are looking for in you:

• 4+ years of experience in hands-on software development/engineering
• 2+ year of acting as leader in a small team
• Strong knowledge of Ruby, Ruby on Rails 4+
• Strong knowledge in Python
• Good understanding of MVC, HTML5, and CSS3
• Practical understanding of the HTTP protocol (RESTful interfaces)
• Good understanding of SQL
• Experience in test automation (Understanding TDD and BDD)
• Good command of English

Bonus points for

• Experience developing administration and/or back office tools
• Experience in working with high transaction gambling systems
• Experience of node.js
• Knowledge of Java
• Knowledge of Periscope data or other report building software

•    Possibility to work with a product company
•    Professional growth
•    Educational possibilities
•    Competitive compensation
•    Fully-equipped perfect office space located in the city center (“Palats Sportu” metro station)
•    Warm and friendly attitude to every specialist