Java Technical Lead

iGaming are looking for an experienced Development Lead from a Java/J2EE oriented development background to join our team of skilled engineers. In this role you will be given responsibility for creating scalable product solutions that run on our leading edge online casino platform. This will ensure you take our products and your career to the next level. The Development Lead position at SG Digital consists of a balance of four main areas of responsibility: ● Technical leadership: Understand the platform and technologies used and guide future direction ● Team leadership: Coaching, support and development of the team ● Customer liaison: A trusted point of contact between SG Digital professional service teams, our customers and partners. ● Incidents: Management of, and escalation path for live production incidents. Key Tasks ● Build game engines on our next generation casino platform ● Manage a team of approximately 8 developers ● Manage and contribute to technical end-to-end delivery of games ● Become a primary point of contact for and maintain strong relationships with both external and internal customers ● Lead design and code reviews, set coding standards and ensure they are met by deliverables ● Ensure engineering best practice principles are applied at all times ● Design solutions that are compatible with the strategic direction of the company ● Support the recruitment process of technical resources Responsible for: Ownership for management of a squad and software quality and delivery assigned to it. Mentoring team members and building a healthy productive culture. Liaison with: The role will interact directly with the Development managers, QA Lead, project managers, product managers, architecture and other team members Qualifications KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS REQUIRED: ● 2+ years people management skills including experience managing development teams ● Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken ● Experience interacting with customers, external partners and business stakeholders ● Demonstrable talent coding in Java, J2EE and their application with design patterns ● Experience with Java Spring Framework, Guice or similar framework ● Disciplined approach to testing ● Good knowledge of large-scale website or application architectures and technology stacks ● Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns ● Experience with various development methodologies; Agile, TDD or Kanban ● Experience in deploying, configuring and maintaining Java Servlet container such as Tomcat ● Excellent Unix/ Linux skills ● Database design skills (any vendor) ● Experience reviewing others work for performance, security, efficiency and portability ● Ability to multi-task and rapidly switch contexts ● Ideally 5+ years of experience building web applications DESIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS: ● Performance tuning skills, including refactoring, code profiling and monitoring ● Automated testing and CI ● Some scripting skills: Bash,Python, etc... ● Release management and configuration management experience