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Sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment is changing, and we're leading that change. By putting people first. By placing exciting, engaging and entertaining experiences at more fingertips than ever before. We're pulling into pole position by pushing boundaries further. With innovation. With technology. But most importantly, with people like you. Because when you join Entain, it's your game. So let's win together.

Technical Lead - Frontend (Angular)

Role Overview

As a Tech Lead, you will lead the technical direction and delivery of frontend solutions built with Angular, leading teams through the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will combine hands-on development, technical leadership, and people management to deliver high-quality, scalable products.

You will help embed AI-driven agentic development practices into everyday engineering workflows. Leveraging autonomous AI agents responsibly, you will accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and enhance decision-making across design, implementation, testing, and documentation - while guiding the team in adopting agentic workflows that reduce manual effort and enable engineers to focus on higher-order problem solving.

Are you ready to help shape the future of digital entertainment while collaborating with one of the world's largest online gaming and entertainment groups?

What You Will Do

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Design, deploy moderately to complex frontend features using Angular and modern web technologies.
• Manage delivery across design, implementation, testing, release, and production support.
• Lead technical design discussions, RFCs, and architectural decision-making.
• Debug and resolve issues across development, test, and production environments, being the primary on-call escalation point.
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, performant, and aligned with platform and architectural standards.

AI-Driven Engineering Practices

• Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, refactoring, test creation, documentation, and debugging prompts) to promote collaboration and quality.
• Define and promote best practices for prompt engineering, validation of AI-generated outputs, and safe usage of AI.
• Use AI to support code reviews, technical analysis, performance optimization, and incident investigation-while ensuring human accountability and quality control.
• Explore and champion opportunities to integrate AI into frontend workflows, automation, and developer experience projects.

Quality and best practices

• Enforce clean, maintainable, reusable, and well-tested code aligned with engineering standards.
• Promote secure coding practices, vulnerability management, and performance optimization.
• Champion CI/CD best practices, automation, and continuous improvement across the team.
• Ensure observability through logging and monitoring.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Set and communicate clear technical and delivery goals aligned with business strategy.
• Manage story lifecycles, dependencies, and priorities in collaboration with Product, QA, and other Tech Leads.
• Develop engineers, encouraging a learning-focused team culture.
• Lead team ceremonies, technical workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and technical assessment of new team members.

Core Technical Skills

• 10+ years of experience.
• Hands-on experience with Angular and modern frontend development practices.
• Proficiency in distributed systems, object-oriented design, and data structures.
• Experience with SDLC, API integration, and relational databases (SQL).
• Experience with clean code principles, version control, and application monitoring.
• Knowledge of software testing strategies, test automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with performance optimization, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud-native environments.
• Experience working with microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Grasp of Agile methodologies and iterative delivery.

Backend & Cross-Stack Knowledge

• Experience with Java and modern backend frameworks.
• Understanding of secure coding practices, authentication/authorization, and vulnerability management.

AI & Modern Engineering

• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools in professional software development.
• Evaluate, validate, and safely integrate AI-generated code and recommendations.
• Interest in prompt engineering, automation, and AI-driven developer productivity.

Soft Skills

• Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners.
• Someone who balances hands-on delivery.

At Entain, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire your best. Join us, and a great compensation package is just the beginning. Working for us in US, you can expect to receive benefits like:

• Salary Range: $173,100 - $207,700
• Healthcare support
• A stake in our success through our ShareSave scheme
• Great development opportunities
• Wellbeing support, and so much more.

And outside of this, you'll have the chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes. You'll also join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.

Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

You have valid authorization to work for our company in the U.S. without the need for immigration sponsorship. This role is not eligible for immigration-related employment authorization sponsorship including H-1B, O-1, E-3, TN, OPT.

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