Fullstack Team Leader

Company Description

About Playtech

Founded in 1999, the company has a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is focused on regulated and regulating markets across its B2B business. By leveraging its proprietary technology, Playtech delivers innovative products and services to ensure a safe, engaging and entertaining gaming experience.

As the gaming industry's leading technology company, it combines business intelligence-driven software, services, content, and platform technology to drive excellence and innovation across the sector. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtechpeople.com and www.playtech.com
 
Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Embracing differences and maintaining transparency in our processes is the core of Playtech's overall commitment to responsible business practices.

Ready to level up your career?

Playtech‘s Marketplace and Engagement Games Product Team is looking for an experienced Fullstack Team Leader with strong full-stack web development background, excellent communication skills, and a proven ability to lead teams and deliver reliable, maintainable, customer-facing software.

Team Leader will lead the engineering team responsible for two established Playtech products: Marketplace, a casino content management product, and Engagement Games, a real-time gaming campaigns product.

The role combines engineering leadership, people management, and hands-on technical understanding. The Team Lead will guide the team in delivering high-quality full-stack solutions, support technical decision-making, improve engineering practices, and ensure effective collaboration with Product, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Delivery Management, and other teams.

Job Description

Your influential mission. You will... 

• Lead and coordinate the full-stack engineering team.
• Own day-to-day progress tracking, and risk management.
• Work closely with Product, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Delivery Management, and external teams.
• Converting product requirements and business priorities into clear, well-defined technical tasks and structured delivery plans.
• Participate in solution design, technical discussions, architectural reviews, and implementation planning.
• Ensure effective engineering practices: code review, testing, documentation, CI/CD, observability, and production readiness.
• Mentor and coach engineers through feedback, technical guidance, code review, and regular communication.
• Improve team processes, engineering workflows, release predictability, and overall team efficiency.
• Contribute hands-on when needed in complex investigations, troubleshooting, or critical delivery situations.

Qualifications

Components for success. You...

• Bring 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in full-stack web development.
• Have 2+ years of experience in a leadership role, such as Team Lead, Engineering Lead, Tech Lead, Development Lead, or similar.
• Demonstrate strong experience with modern JavaScript / TypeScript web applications.
• Possess solid practical knowledge of React, Redux, ES6+, HTML5, CSS3, Node.js, REST APIs, MongoDB, and Redis.
• Have experience delivering customer-facing or business-critical web applications.
• Show a strong understanding of full-stack architecture, performance, testing, CI/CD, and production support.
• Have experience working with highly available, performance-sensitive, distributed, or event-driven systems.
• Are experienced in Agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional and distributed teams.
• Demonstrate strong ownership, accountability, and an engineering leadership mindset.
• Are able to lead people, delivery, and technical discussions effectively.
• Apply good technical judgment and guide teams toward simple, maintainable solutions.
• Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Show strong planning, prioritization, dependency management, and risk communication skills.
• Have the ability to mentor engineers and support their professional growth.
• Take a pragmatic approach to balancing delivery timelines, quality, and long-term product health.
• Pay high attention to detail and bring a collaborative, constructive approach to feedback and conflict resolution.

You'll get extra points for...

• Experience improving engineering processes, delivery metrics, release predictability, or team performance.
• Experience with frontend architecture, reusable component libraries, design systems, or micro-frontends.
• Experience in gaming, gambling, casino platforms, campaign management, or real-time engagement products.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and production incident analysis.

Thrive in a culture that values...   

• Technical excellence and engineering ownership.
• Initiative-taking and confident decision-making.
• Strong team environment and the ability work with the most recent market-leading technologies.
• Initiative-taking and confident approach at the workplace.
• Global scope and inclusive working environment where you can engage with diverse teams and perspectives.
• Constant learning and development opportunities and professional growth programs.
• Active lifestyle and mental well-being, supported through sports classes, master classes, and monthly well-being activities.
• Medical insurance.
• Paid vacation days, sick leaves and national holidays.
• Fully-equipped cosy office space located in the city centre (Gulliver, “Palats Sportu” metro station).

Additional Information

MARKETPLACE & ENGAGEMENT GAMES PRODUCT TEAM

Our team is dedicated to two of Playtech's products - Marketplace, a platform for managing casino content, and Engagement games - a promotional tool for creating and monitoring real-time gaming campaigns. Both products are stable and well-established, with Engagement games offering seamless integration and customization for engaging player campaigns. Marketplace simplifies the management of casino content, providing tools to access marketing assets and manage game certificates. We thrive in a friendly and collaborative environment, engaging in full stack development using JavaScript technologies like React, Redux, ES6+, and Node.js. Some of our responsibilities include maintaining client-facing and server-side applications, writing high-quality, scalable code, participating in the software development lifecycle, collaborating with other departments for ensuring smooth deployments, and refining internal processes.

Tech stack: React, Redux, ES6+, TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, REST APIs.

Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.