VP Engineering/CTO - Microservices Architecture

SALARY - 50-70 LPA

BeBetta is a social sports betting platform based in India, redefining the way fans engage with sports. BeBetta offers a gamified sports betting experience, allowing users to bet on live matches, challenge friends, and win rewards—all without spending real money. Our platform is designed to foster a passionate community of sports enthusiasts, enhancing the excitement of every game. 

Job Summary 

We are seeking a visionary Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead our technology department, driving innovation and scaling our platform to new heights. The CTO will be responsible for our overall technology strategy, developing new features, ensuring system reliability, and keeping the user experience at the forefront. As a key member of the executive team, you will work closely with the CEO and other leaders to align technology initiatives with business goals, ultimately enhancing user engagement and growth. 

Responsibilities: 

• Define and execute the technology strategy in alignment with the company’s objectives and market trends. 
• Lead the engineering team to deliver scalable, innovative, and secure solutions that enhance the user experience. 
• Foster a culture of innovation within the technology team, encouraging experimentation and the exploration of new technologies. 
• Oversee the development and maintenance of the platform's architecture, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and security. 
• Collaborate with product management to define product vision, roadmaps, and development priorities. 
• Manage technology budgets and time frames to ensure timely delivery of technological initiatives. 
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory, security, and privacy standards relevant to the online gaming and betting industry. 
• Drive continuous improvement in the company’s technology stack and technical processes. 
• Establish strategic partnerships and relationships with technology providers, vendors, and other industry players. 

Requirements: 

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 
• Proven experience as a CTO, VP of Engineering, or in a similar leadership role within a technology-driven company, preferably in the gaming, social networking, or fintech sectors. 
• Demonstrable experience in building and scaling high-performance engineering teams. 
• Strong background in developing scalable mobile and web applications, with a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, databases, cybersecurity, and modern software development practices. 
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams. 
• Strategic thinker with a knack for innovation and a passion for technology’s role in business growth. 
• Knowledge of the sports betting industry and its regulatory environment is a plus. 

What We Offer: 

• The opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing startup with a dynamic and inclusive culture. 
• A pivotal role in shaping the future of sports engagement in India and beyond. 
• Competitive compensation, including equity options. 
• A platform to innovate and impact the lives of millions of sports fans. 

Head of Technology

He/She should be a ‘most technical business person’ and his/her goal is to build a great company, not only a technology which just sounds cool. Let’s make it simpler - the primary job of the Tech. head is to make sure the company's technology strategy serves its business strategy. We strongly believe along with technology understanding every Technology Head needs great understating of the business itself.

Role Overview:

Get “Tech” in order: Help answer fundamentals of technology blocks to be used, choice of certain platform/tech over other, helping team visualize product with the available resources and assets

Innovation through Research and continuous improvement. Head of technology is one strategic personnel who provides critical and factual inputs for IP Creation.

Connecting Business Requirements with activity: Given that, Head of technology is an executive Tech leader, it’s easy for him to understand the business opportunities which Tech Product could create. He/She bring the perspective of tech as a differentiator. He/She should understand the “Market Needs” language talked by his other executive colleagues.

Methodology: With time, help build progressive learning culture and establish predictable model of envisioning, designing and developing products/ platforms and services.

Architecture Practices: Making sure that best practices are defined and followed by team is very important. he/she may have to garbage guy and clean the code time to time. Making reviews on Code Quality is an important activity that he/she should follow. For example, you build an amazing product but during deployment and testing stage performance is hit, or a bug fixes are taking more time than actual building a feature etc. need to be avoided.

Help build, manage, and validate a Tech Roadmap for its Products. As validation of idea happen with acquisition of users and customers, product / platform / service may undergo transformation on required features set and Market needs. A roadmap to achieve those “vanity goals” for the project, and be able to successfully tweak an approach with changing needs is expected from Head of technology.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Plan the project & Assign tasks & complete them within the agreed timelines with client
• Use PMP tools to manage projects
• Attend client meetings and take briefings
  Help Business teams to innovate and keep them updated with new technologies
• Documentation as per the process – BRS, SRS, HLD & LLD
• Manage a team; set processes in place to facilitate everyday operations seamlessly
• If required, code.

 What you will need: 

• PHP/MySQL, Angular JavaScript, jQuery, Memcached
• Experience: Minimum 10+ year is required (PHP/MySQL)
• Good Understanding of MVC design patterns and frameworks (CodeIgniter / Zend/Laravel).
• Solid Knowledge of OOPS.
• Solid experience with MySQL - writing and optimizing SQL for high performance systems with large Database
• Extensively worked on Mobile platforms.
• Must have Experience on either of Social API like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail
• Good knowledge of GIT, SVN

• Advanced knowledge of software and solution architecture
• High-level project management skills
• Ability to solve complex software system issues
• Well experienced with software design and web development
• Proficiency with JAVA, and strong front-end knowledge of HTML5, JSF, Angular, React
• Familiar or working experience with Apache Kafka working, Containers, Docker, Kubernetes
• Professional, precise communication skills
• Deep understanding of 'under the hood' knowledge of frameworks worked on
• Work experience in implementing Unit Tests
• Work experience in applying the best practices of Design, Architecture and Application
• development
• Extensive experience with HTML5, CSS3, XML and JSON
• Thorough understanding of Reactive Programming, RxJS framework, Databases, API,
• Implementing of Caching and RESTful services
• Troubleshooting design and performance flaws and system bottlenecks
• Conducting system performance tests
• Working experience in an Agile team, especially with SCRUM
• Good understanding of DevOps, CI/CD principles and practices to improve Software
  
  Quality & Efficiency
• Following Skills will be an added advantage
• Work experience with Cloud Services like AWS and Azure
• Familiar with common microservices patterns
• Service / API test – to test endpoints as thoroughly as possible
• End to End integration test systemFeb.2021 - Technical Manager Requirement

Behavioral Skill

• Should be a quick learner with a problem-solving mindset
• Attention to detail and follow-through to achieve good quality
• Ability to work effectively in a team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill

We are looking for a technology leader that can lead a group that builds and runs a product. We are a product company so we develop, manage and grow our own products. Our key objectives include acquiring clients and growing our user base. Product development is an ongoing process.

We need a leader that has experience in developing technologies but also understands how to leverage 3rd party platforms. Integration into FB and Google systems are critical to our success.

We operate in the Marketing technology world. Understanding marketing data is a key requirement. The great opportunity of this position is that the Team Lead gets to design and participate in the entire product cycle. We manage our own product, marketing and sales process within the company.

We Work globally and you ll have a chance to interact with teams in New York, Europe, Latin America and India. We are looking for a software engineer who has played the role of a team lead and who has worked on all phases of SDLC from prototyping to feature delivery and scaling features. A capable result oriented visionary Technology lead with a unique experience in leading high performance development teams, increasing efficiency and productivity while reducing costs. Somebody with the ability to build and run technology platforms, evaluate opportunities and risks and deliver innovative new solutions to meet customer needs. Hands on experience on all facets of software application development, covering deployment, support, quality assurance, customer support, project management and process improvement. Strong planning abilities and setting product and technology strategies in B2C and B2B environments.

• Responsible for leading the team for successful delivery of projects assigned.
• Risk assessments for architectural solutions and proposed systems and technologies; should know how to do module planning and effort estimation.
• Develop overall technical strategy for projects from technical requirements.
• Help in Project planning, progress tracking & delivery verification.
• Keep track of time spent on individual project tasks, provide guidance & advice best technology approach to the team.
• Follow guidelines for quality delivery, project documentation, code management, etc.
• Implement new technologies which are good for business & guide the team members
• Must possess personality to switch tasks and projects frequently as each will have different priorities.
• Meet stipulated deadlines and timelines.
• Work in Agile based project methodology.
• Open for frequent short-term travel to US.

• Having a strong IT experience, minimum 10 years, along with team handling role.
• Expertise in PHP, MVC Frameworks and good technology exposure of at least one framework such as Laravel, Zend etc.
• Expertise in at least one JavaScript framework such as jQuery, AngularJS, React JS etc.
• Excellent exposure with bespoke and open-source technologies (e.g., Drupal/Magento, etc..).
• Sound knowledge of database designing and application architecture planning for Core & MVC projects
• Excellent knowledge of SQL scripting and MySQL database administration
• Sound understanding of OOP and MVC development.
• Must have strong experience in handling International Clients and overseas accounts.
• US Travelled would be preferred.
• Good debugging skills with browser extensions & server tools
• Experience with GIT/Jira/Agile.
• Experience in enterprise level architecture design including server management.
• Experience in handling AWS/cloud/ Dedicated enterprise servers.
• Experience in handling high volume, high traffic sites.
• Strong in technical knowledge and documentation.
• Should be able to think out of the box, solution driven and passionate about the work.
• Ability to communicate ideas and concepts.

• Experience in defining new architectures, design all layers of the solution, create architectural blueprints that can be used for final code development.
• Interface with client business/technical teams to understand complex requirements.
• Anticipate on technological evolutions(example use MySQL Lite not MS SQL, use C# not ASP, don't use JSF use Angular).
• Resolve technical issues.
• Bridge between Developers, Project Managers/Leads, and Client, ensuring smooth communication channel.
• Ensure quality of project implementation deployed.
• Provide technical guidance to projects/programs for complex components of a multiple technology suites.
• Ensuring documentation of the complete project architecture.
• Lead actions to determine root cause of problems and drive resolution.
• Participate in cross-functional work groups to assess business needs, develop a systems architecture strategy, and implementation plans.
• Leads work groups that are responsible for software development.
• Ensure that all components of the technical architecture are properly integrated and implemented by the development team.
• Coach the technical team in the development of the technical architecture and help them solve challenging technical problems
• Provide technical support and technical quality control throughout all stages of the project.
• Spearheads the development, implementation and communications of architecture roadmap strategies to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, secure, supportable, and achieve.
• Identify existing architecture weaknesses and find opportunities for process reengineering and perform cost benefit analysis

• Time Management- Organizes own workload to achieve maximum productivity and completes work in a timely and professional manner. Handles multiple short and long term modules by proper planning while anticipating potential problems and planning for contingencies.
• Identify high-potential team members for next level positions and creating learning and development plans for them.
• Enable strong process in place and reducing dependencies on individual.

Technical Skills and Qualification

• Excellent knowledge of Web technologies, Java, Javascript, Contact center environment.
• Experience of current technologies including Open Source, J2EE (JSP, Servlet, JSP, etc.), web application development, web services (REST/SOAP/XML), Rich Internet Applications, messaging infrastructures and databases.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new tools and applications.
• Should be comfortable for 40%-60% coding.
• Able to convert requirements into executable code
• 9 to 12 yrs experience
• Qualification: BE/B-Tech /MCA or any equivalent degree

Desirables

• Excellent written and verbal communication skill
• Ability to lead discussions with all levels of the organization and provide balanced information of an idea or communication of an issue regardless of written or verbal
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across project teams.
• Having Analytical and problem-solving
• Ability to translate complex requirements into functional and Technical architecture
• Experience managing the technology aspect of multiple complex projects
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions and Assist team members in complex task
• Willing to take ownership and being accountable.
• Openness, communicates honestly, openly, and consistently.
• Positive Attitude encourages a positive rather than negative viewpoint.
• Integrity maintains the highest standard of personal conduct in performing all duties.
• Should be a good listener.
• Dependable, can be relied upon to get the job done.
• Able to avoid mistakes that could/should be anticipated.
• Should be able sense and grab the opportunities to innovate and improvise.
• Very high competence in presentation skills.
• Negotiator: Excellent negotiation skills which comes handy in hard selling new ideas/ new technical implementations etc.
• Risk Management: Should be able to take calculated risks in trying out new technical implementation avenues
• Able to communicate the org level vision to the team effectively

What you need to have: