Fullstack Team Leader

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. 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.

• 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.
• 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.

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

• 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).