Release Manager (Igaming)

TL;DR

Release Manager (Igaming): Planning and supervising all activities related to the release process, ensuring successful deployments across environments with an accent on improving existing release processes and integrating business requirements. Focus on leading changes in a fast-growing environment and ensuring quality and stability of releases.

Location: Modern office in New Belgrade.

Company

hirify.global is a global company creating end-to-end tech products for clients across Fintech, iGaming, and Marketing.

What you will do

• Plan, coordinate, and supervise all activities related to the release process, ensuring successful deployments across development, staging, and production environments.
• Verify and maintain release notes, deployment plans, and other relevant documentation to ensure all stakeholders are informed and aligned.
• ️Build new and improve existing release processes (Jira, Gitlab), integrating business requirements and developer convenience.
• Implement, propagate and continuously improve release processes across dozens of development teams.
• Work closely with Operations, Infrastructure, Development, Legal, and Security teams.

Requirements

• Leadership and communication skills, ability to lead changes in a fast-growing environment.
• Strong understanding of Git, including branching strategies like Git Flow, GitHub Flow, Trunk-based development, and others.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices, and understanding their role in automating and streamlining the release process.
• Knowledge of Quality Controls and test automation in agile-based continuous integration environments.
• Basic experience with Jenkins or Gitlab CI for automating builds and deployments.
• Understanding of what Kubernetes is and experience of working with it as a user.
• Understanding of microservice architecture principles.
• Understanding of databases, hands-on experience with any of relational databases, ability to build queries with SQL.

Nice to have

• Experience in Quality Assurance, with knowledge of testing practices and methodologies.
• Experience running and reviewing automated tests, with a focus on ensuring the quality and stability of releases.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana, Kibana, or Coralogix for tracking application performance and identifying issues.
• Experience with Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript.
• Experience with Unleash and its webhooks and integration.

Culture & Benefits

• 24 vacation days annually and 6 sick days without medical certificate.
• Premium Health Insurance (coverage up to 5,000 EUR annually).
• Special occasion gifts: birthday, wedding, newborn.
• Learning & Development budget (for conferences, courses and certifications).
• Corporate events: international parties, team buildings, activities.
• Career growth opportunities in a fast-growing company.