Engineering Lead

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Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, GBR
Hybrid
Expert/Leader
Gaming • Information Technology • Consulting
Shaping the future of regulated gaming with innovative lottery and iGaming solutions worldwide.
The Role
Leads a software engineering team within the Sports domain, balancing hands-on development with people leadership, coaching, mentoring, and delivery ownership. Partners with the Product Owner across the SDLC, promotes engineering excellence and best practices, removes distractions, resolves issues, supports cross-team collaboration, and drives continuous improvement. The role ideally requires recent backend development or QA experience with Java, Spring Boot, AWS, GraphQL, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes.
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Who we are

Bally’s Intralot is a newly formed company established through the combination of Intralot and Bally’s International Interactive, positioning the group as a top iGaming operator and a leading global provider of lottery solutions.

Bally’s Intralot is uniquely positioned across digital online gaming markets, lottery, iLottery, and sports betting. Operating at the intersection of technology, regulation, and entertainment. We are optimally positioned to capitalize on strong global growth trends driven by digital adoption and regulatory expansion across lottery and iGaming markets.

Well, what about the team?

As an Engineering Lead in Matchday and as part of the Sports domain, you will be at the forefront of managing technical aspects and setting the pace, leading by example throughout your team's endeavors. You'll lead a group of engineers, providing clear guidance to help them achieve exceptional results. Your hands-on engineering experience will be an integral part of your leadership style, as you actively contribute as a team member.

You work closely with your local Product Owner to ensure successful delivery of the product backlog across the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), with a strong focus on delivering a customer experience that we can be proud of, setting a high standard for excellence.  

So, what will you be doing?


  • Team Leadership: Lead the team, ensuring they achieve their goals and outcomes effectively.

  • Hands-on Contribution: Actively participate in team delivery, ensuring you are driving the work to completion.

  • Product Delivery: Collaborate with our Product Owner throughout the delivery lifecycle to deliver our product backlog.

  • Software Engineering Excellence: Promote and uphold high-quality software engineering practices within your team and work with the organization to continuously improve ways of working.

  • Maximizing Efficiency: Minimize distractions and create a developer-friendly environment to maximize team productivity.

  • Balancing Technical and People Skills: Leverage your skills and experience to balance technical, people, process, and delivery aspects.

  • Team Collaboration: Foster a culture of teamwork and strong engineering practices, leading by example with a proactive and can-do attitude.

  • Cross-Team Support: Help to build a culture of teamwork across the Sports domain that supports the efficient delivery of value to our customers.

And what are we looking for?

  • Software Development: Ideally have a background in backend software development using technologies like Java, Spring Boot, AWS, GraphQL, Kafka, Docker and Kubernetes.

  • Coaching and Mentoring: Engage, coach, mentor, facilitate, and empower team members to reach their full potential.

  • Effective Communication: Provide context and information to your team as part of the wider leadership team and represent your team's perspective to the organization.

  • Issue Resolution and Feedback: Know how to escalate issues and provide constructive feedback in a positive and proactive manner. commitment to continuous improvement, working tirelessly to optimize team performance.   

  • Recent Hands-On Expertise: Demonstrated proficiency through recent hands-on experience as a developer or QA, underscoring your deep technical acumen.

  • Champion of Best Practices: Proficiency in championing and applying software engineering best practices, exemplifying your commitment to quality.

  • Leadership: Possess leadership skills that ignite inspiration and guidance within a team, steering them towards excellence.

  • Excellent Communicator: Excel in communication and interpersonal skills, making you an effective collaborator and a bridge builder.

  • Dedication to Excellence: Display an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement, working tirelessly to optimize team performance.

DNA / Values

At Bally’s Interactive, we are driven by a set of core values that we like to call our DNA. We strive to embody our DNA and keep them at the heart of everything we do!

We are Always Ready to embrace change, adapt, and do what it takes to delight our customers. We believe that You Make the Difference, which is what gives our players the best experience and keeps them coming back. We are All One Team, looking out for each other, respecting diversity while connecting through a common purpose. Our teams are Learning Every Day by showing constant curiosity and the drive to learn from successes, mistakes, new experiences, and the people around us. At Bally’s we Love to Lead by thinking differently, seeking innovation, and always looking for ways to raise our game.

Equal Opportunities

At Bally’s Interactive, we are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and working conditions.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are important to us, and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work.

We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success, this is our superpower.

We do not discriminate against employees or job applicants on the basis of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, age, sex or sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, political opinion or disability.

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Skills Required

  • Recent hands-on experience as a software developer or QA professional
  • Backend software development experience
  • Experience with Java
  • Experience with Spring Boot
  • Experience with AWS
  • Experience with GraphQL
  • Experience with Kafka
  • Experience with Docker
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Team leadership, coaching, mentoring, and empowerment skills
  • Strong software engineering best-practice knowledge
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Issue resolution and constructive feedback skills
  • Commitment to continuous improvement and delivery excellence
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The Company
HQ: Athens
1,469 Employees
Year Founded: 1992

What We Do

Bally’s Intralot is a newly formed company established through the combination of INTRALOT and Bally’s International Interactive, positioning the group as a top iGaming operator and a leading global provider of lottery solutions. Listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, Bally’s Intralot benefits from access to international capital markets to support growth and strategic initiatives, strengthening its presence and competitiveness both locally and globally. Building on Bally’s proven digital B2C operational expertise and INTRALOT’s long-standing leadership in lottery regulated gaming across all five continents, Bally’s Intralot is uniquely positioned across digital online gaming markets, lottery, iLottery, and sports betting. This strategic combination brings together complementary strengths to form a scaled, independent global champion, capable of addressing a significantly expanded addressable market while operating with deep regulatory expertise across multiple jurisdictions. With a unified, vertically integrated structure in the online gaming and lottery sector, a global outlook, technological excellence, and presence across all forms of modern gaming, Bally’s Intralot enables operators to modernize their retail and digital offerings, deliver personalized and responsible player experiences, and operate with greater agility and efficiency in an increasingly converging gaming ecosystem. Operating at the intersection of technology, regulation, and entertainment, Bally’s Intralot is optimally positioned to capitalize on strong global growth trends driven by digital adoption and regulatory expansion across lottery and iGaming markets. Through its global footprint, advanced technology, and commitment to long-term value creation, Bally’s Intralot aims to shape the future of regulated gaming and deliver sustainable benefits for operators, players, and communities alike.

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