Overview

At Bridge Base Online we are growing very fast. With operations in Europe and North America, Bridge Base Online (bridgebase.com) is the largest bridge club in the world. At any time of the day, thousands of players enjoy casual bridge with friends, practice their skills against robots, or play in serious competition.

We are looking for a seasoned manager who can lead our development team and help deliver exciting new products. This role is also key in supporting the sysadmin team migrate legacy systems to a modern architecture, ensuring 24×7 uptime in our operations.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Manage a remote team of developers and sysadmins
• Lead development, maintenance, and migration projects
• Implement modern in-house Agile/Scrum/SDLC practices
• Provide technical clarity between ongoing projects and the strategic objectives of the company
• Support the sysadmin team to:
• Review/overhaul backup and disaster recovery practices
• Implement modern DevOps/SRE practices
• Migrate existing systems to AWS

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of team leadership experience
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum/SDLC management tools and processes
• Prior experience with maintaining real-time 24×7 systems and DevOps practices a plus
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to successfully lead a remote team
• Passionate and always wanting to go the extra mile
• Fluency in English
• Bonus Points
• Experience managing outsourced development projects
• Recent technical background
• Seasoned JIRA and Confluence user
• Industry experience with real-time card game platforms
• Enjoys trick-taking card games; bridge player a plus!
• Fluency in French

Reports To
You will report to the Chief Technology Officer.

Position
This is a remote, full-time position (contract).

52 Entertainment Group
A global leader in mind sport games, focused on online entertainment and specialized publications. Our brands include Bridge Base Online (BBO), Funbridge, Bridge Baron, Canasta Junction, Master Point Press, Goto Games, Le Bridgeur, and China Bridge Online.