Head of Engineering (igaming)

TL;DR

Head of Engineering (igaming): Leading internal and external teams to deliver scalable online betting platforms and solutions with an accent on platform stability, process transformation, and cross-functional collaboration. Focus on building high-performing engineering organizations, championing best practices, and driving continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.

Location: Hybrid in Madrid, Spain

Company

Product development company building game-changing online betting and gaming platforms reaching hundreds of thousands of users daily.

What you will do

• Build and expand high-performing engineering teams through strategic hiring, coaching, and development.
• Cultivate consistent culture, purpose, and unified ways of working across distributed teams.
• Champion technology stability, evolution, and platform KPIs as part of the roadmap.
• Support prioritization, forecasting, and planning of portfolio initiatives aligned with strategy.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, DevOps, and other functions to ensure best practices in PDLC.
• Mentor engineers, promote accountability, and contribute to engineering leadership community.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading engineering organizations in high-growth and transformation environments.
• Track record building scalable, reliable complex software solutions.
• Strong experience with engineering principles, best practices, Agile, DevOps methodologies, coding standards.
• High-level knowledge of architecture and application security principles.
• Experience with stakeholders for hiring strategies and developing quality teams.
• People-oriented with focus on leadership development and continuous improvement.

Nice to have

• Experience with data platforms, data engineering, streaming, real-time processing (Kafka, Flink).
• Analytical skills for interpreting data and actionable insights.
• Proven ability to push projects to completion and leverage networking.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with flexible hours and four weeks per year work from anywhere.
• Private life and health insurance, gym reimbursement, private pension scheme.
• 25 days annual leave, 3 volunteering days, learning pocket for development.
• Inclusive, multicultural environment with 35+ nationalities, focus on well-being and growth.
• Generous referral program and flexible benefits retribution.