Backend Team Lead (PHP/Node.js)
Delasport
| Company | Delasport |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Sofia |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Manager |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 13 Jan 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
About Us:
Delasport is where technology meets the excitement of sports and gaming! As a proven innovator in iGaming software, we provide everything from platform development to player account management. Our platform is designed to make every player feel like the star of the show, with personalized experiences and cutting-edge technology at its heart.
Since our founding in 2010, we have won multiple international awards and have established a proven track record of excellence, stability, and overall success. This achievement only drives us to reach even greater heights. Currently, we are proud to have over 500 experts across various business fields and several offices in Bulgaria (Sofia and Plovdiv), Ukraine, and Malta.
About the Role:
We're hiring an Engineering Team Lead for one of the most consequential engineering teams at Delasport - the team that owns KYC, AML, anti-fraud, and regulatory compliance across the platform.
These aren't peripheral services. They're what make it legally possible for our operators to take a bet in every market we're licensed in. Every player who signs up, every withdrawal, every suspicious pattern, every regulator report - it flows through systems your team owns. When a new jurisdiction comes online, your team is on the critical path.
If you want a leadership role where the work is technically real, the stakes are visible, and the freedom is genuine - read on.
This role is based in Sofia, Bulgaria, and we welcome candidates who are open to relocating (relocation support provided).
What Your Team Owns:
You'll manage a team of 5 full-stack developers and 2 QAs responsible for:
KYC - identity verification pipelines, document checks, and third-party provider integrations
AML - transaction monitoring, sanctions and PEP screening, suspicious-activity detection
Anti-Fraud - behavioural review and fraud-pattern detection across player activity
Regulatory Compliance - jurisdiction-specific rules, reporting obligations, and operator configurations
The footprint is a mix of synchronous APIs, scheduled jobs, and real-time stream consumers processing events off Kafka and RabbitMQ.
What You'll Actually Work On:
Shaping the future stack . Today the team works across PHP/Laravel, Python, and TypeScript/Vue. All new services will be written in Node.js, and you'll be a key voice in shaping how that evolution unfolds - patterns, shared libraries, deployment standards.
Driving technical excellence . Setting and raising the bar on performance, reliability, and operational maturity across the team's services.
Real ownership of production . The team owns its services end to end - design, build, ship, observe, fix. You set the standard for how that ownership is exercised.
Growing the team . Seniors ready to push toward staff-level work; mids ready to grow into seniors. Your impact on them will be one of the most rewarding parts of this role.
What You’ll Do:
Manage the team . Set technical direction, code-quality bar, and architectural standards. Run code reviews that teach. Develop the engineers under you.
Stay hands-on . This is not a pure people-management role. You'll write code, design systems, and pair on hard problems.
Architect for the real world . Design services that handle real-time event streams reliably, fail safely under regulatory scrutiny, and integrate cleanly with the third-party providers we depend on.
Drive the technical roadmap . Make and defend the calls on what to refactor, what to rewrite, and where to in
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