Engineering Manager (Sportsbook)
Managing three teams of engineers, designers and QA’s (25 people), responsible for creating the greatest gaming experience for Sports in a highly competitive and fast paced industry.
Leading the team, building trust and accountability with colleagues, responsible for delivering on the product roadmap and working together with the extended team of
product managers, product specialists, designers and leaders, to deliver company strategic goals and initiatives.
Develop, coach and help a team of developers reach their maximum potential, through clear targets and goals, and our supporting career progression framework. Acting as
a role model by living the Leo Culture, ensuring your and your team's every day contribution brings us closer to our common passion: Creating the Greatest I-Gaming Experience.
What I've been doing:
- Take lead in the team's daily work and deliver a quality product to offer a customer first Greatest Gaming Experience for Sports.
- Drive hypothesis driven development, outcome focus and being able to guide the team in value creation.
- As a team effort, take ownership of the delivery of the product roadmap, and ensure best practice from a technical perspective.
- Learn how to navigate the volatile business environment of online gaming.
- Encourage a fun, healthy, collaborative engineering culture.
- Continuously seek to improve both your product and ways of working in the team.
- Inspire knowledge sharing and collaboration.
- Actively work across teams to strengthen Team Leo.
- Responsible for retaining competence and recruiting top talent.
- Inspire climate for new innovative ideas to the team (technology, features or ways of working).
- Enable lean and data driven ways of working to help the team deliver value efficiently.
- Drive ways of working on agile principles.
From the PRODUCT SIDE:
- Having meetings with the stakeholders (sometimes customers or shareholders, or internal such product director) to define the roadmap for the year.
- Having meetings with the proper vertical (in my case based on my experience with Sports and Platform) to set the roadmap by quarter.
- Having grooming sessions with the teams involved to clarify tasks, solve doubts and improve the task descriptions.
- Preparing and conducting status reports to shareholders and CTO weekly and monthly.
- Scheduling and participating in brainstorming sessions to create new concepts.
- Working very close with ux/ui designers to create prototypes of new features.
- Writing (in Jira) Epics and stories (sometimes bugs) and tracking them properly.
- Working side by side with regulation team to know (and add to backlog) any change coming in terms of laws, regulations or countries that could impact the company.
- Making and/or defining A/B tests to collect any input from our changes.
- Pay attention to new markets and adquisitions (in collaboration with the director and regulatory team).
- Translating requisites from customers to technical specifications (and participating in many cases in frontend/backend sessions).
