.Are you ready to take your career to the next level by helping us build a product that millions of users interact with daily? As a Squad Engineering Lead at Sportradar, you will be responsible for leading and guiding the most important part of our engineering organisation - our people. Accountable for team delivery, you will serve as a leader to improve productivity and predictability, and nurture our culture of collaboration, communication, and coordination between and within teams.Prior to taking on engineering leadership, you likely were a senior software engineer with a comprehensive understanding of complex systems that you were a vital part of developing and launching over the years. Your experience has given you the perspective to help other engineers prioritize their tasks, shape their career decisions, and face tricky challenges. We are also expecting you to keep up to date with engineering best practices, making you better equipped when helping your employees decide what competencies they want to develop. We need our engineers to be versatile, capable of mentoring and enthusiastic about taking on new challenges as we continue to push technology forward. We are product-oriented engineers with a growth mindset.THE CHALLENGE: Responsible for software delivery for one or more squads.Working collaboratively with product owners, other leaders, and engineers to create the best product for our customers.Analyse the scope of Product Team initiatives and coordinate with other squads to estimate, map dependencies, plan sprints, resolve blockers and ensure timely release to market.Provide an agile working environment, organizing and facilitating the team's scrum events.Ensure the teams' efficiency and high-quality work: enforce tech excellence, tech debt management, and regular adjustment of processes and timelines in line with continuous improvement philosophy.Lead prioritization efforts and provide mentorship to others.Coordinate release activities, including clear and detailed plans or checklists for testing and roll-out.Responsible for developing our people: Coach engineers to grow in a professional (improving skills, problem-solving abilities) and personal way (by supporting and giving them frequent feedback).Think critically about the long-term career development of team members.Conduct regular check-ins and 1-1s.Learning and sharing experiences on new technologies and trends and how you can leverage them in current and future products.Collaborating and sharing knowledge with others across the group.Exhibiting passion and advocate to drive change.Understanding how our business works and how products add value to your customers. Show engineers how their work impacts the product (bigger picture).YOUR PROFILE: Hands-on people management experience (incl. on/off-boarding process, performance management, talent development).A knack for effective and clear communication in all circumstances
