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Bet On Talent

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2021

🎯 Recruiter

🎮 Gaming

🌐 Web 3

Recruitment • Gaming • Web 3

Bet On Talent is an exclusive talent acquisition partner that provides specialized recruitment services for companies in iGaming, Web3, gaming, and adjacent tech sectors. Acting as an internal extension of hiring teams, they work closely with hiring managers to source and connect candidates to roles across product, engineering, legal, marketing, CRM, and VIP operations, offering transparent, candidate-focused guidance and VIP access to opportunities. They place emphasis on deep industry knowledge (online and crypto casinos, sweepstakes, mystery boxes, B2B SaaS, and FinTech) and operate globally with hybrid and fully remote roles.

📋 Description

• Lead and mentor a team of Go engineers - setting clear expectations, running code reviews, and driving continuous improvement. • Take end-to-end ownership of the backend roadmap, ensuring reliable delivery without compromising on quality. • Partner with the Software Architect to translate the technical vision into execution-ready plans. • Design and maintain high-performance, scalable backend services and APIs built in Go. • Own the team's AWS infrastructure - from architecture decisions to deployment, monitoring, and cost efficiency. • Foster a culture of accountability, clean code, and rigorous testing across the engineering team.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with strong Go expertise and a track record of leading engineering teams. • Proven ability to manage, mentor, and grow engineers - you know how to give feedback, resolve blockers, and keep a team moving. • Solid hands-on experience with AWS - EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, SQS, and CloudWatch. • Deep understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and building for high availability at scale. • Strong experience with REST API design, relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL), and containerisation with Docker and Kubernetes. • Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ). • Knowledge of observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog. • Excellent communication skills in English - you can engage equally well with engineers, architects, and non-technical stakeholders. • Excellent AI usage skills. • Nice to Have: Background in iGaming, Fintech, or other high-volume, regulated industries. • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK. • Knowledge of PHP

🏖️ Benefits

• 28 days paid time off & public holidays