[Hiring] Scala Tech Lead @GR8_TECH

Role Description

The Tech Lead is a senior engineering role responsible for driving technical excellence within a specific product or platform stream. This role combines hands-on development with architectural leadership, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions. The Tech Lead partners closely with Head of stream, Product Managers, and Team Leads to deliver business value while maintaining strong technical standards.

What you’ll drive:

• Technical Architecture and System Design
  • Own high-level system design and architecture decisions for features, services, and platform components.
  • Perform technical evaluation of tasks, initiatives, and projects, including feasibility and trade-offs.
  • Collaborate with Team Leads and other Tech Lead on technical roadmap alignment.
  • Support incident resolution and root cause analysis for complex production issues.
• Hands-on Development and Quality Standards
  • Contribute as an Individual Contributor (IC) to critical or complex parts of the system.
  • Drive technical excellence within the assigned stream, ensuring alignment with company-wide engineering standards.
  • Ensure code quality, reusability, scalability, and extensibility across owned services/components.
  • Review and guide implementation approaches to ensure best engineering practices.
  • Ensure adherence to Definition of Done (DoD) and engineering standards.
• Delivery and Technical Leadership
  • Provide high-level effort estimations and support planning activities.
  • Act as a technical authority in at least one programming language or technology stack.
  • Balance technical quality vs delivery speed.
• Mentorship and Engineering Culture
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to their professional development and technical growth.
  • Assist Team Leads in defining and executing Personal Development Plans (PDPs).
  • Promote knowledge sharing, documentation, and engineering culture improvements.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including prior experience in a senior or lead engineering role.
• Proven experience in Scala and Java.
• Experience designing and building scalable distributed systems in product-based or B2B environments.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Strong system design, architectural thinking, and deep understanding of software engineering best practices.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical skills, and effective technical communication across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Ownership, accountability, and ability to work in cross-functional environments.
• Upper-Intermediate (B2+) level of English and Ukrainian or Russian.

Requirements

• iGaming domain experience (nice-to-have).

Benefits

• Benefits Cafeteria — annual budget you allocate to:
  • Sports
  • Medical
  • Mental health
  • Home office
  • Languages
• Paid maternity/paternity leave + monthly childcare allowance.
• 20+ vacation days, unlimited sick leave, emergency time off.
• Remote-first + tech support + coworking compensation.
• Team events (online/offline/offsite).
• Learning culture with internal courses + growth programs.

Company Description

GR8_TECH builds B2B iGaming platforms for operators who play to lead. We deliver full-cycle, high-impact tech designed to scale — from seamless integrations and expert consulting to long-term operational support. Our platform powers millions of active players and drives real business growth. Call it what it is: the iGaming Platform for Champions.

With 1000+ GR8 people across locations and time zones, we don’t just ship technology — we help operators build success stories across brands, markets, and geos. Our ambition drives us. Our people make it real.