Senior Software Developer, Sports Content

Company Description

We’re one of the world’s leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 10,000 people and serve over 120 million customers in 26 languages.

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of growth opportunities, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what’s possible for our global worldwide.

Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, featuring more than 1.38 million In-Play sporting events a year. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe (750,000), we handle over 6 million HTTP requests daily and process more than 1.5 million bets per hour at peak.

Job Description

As a Senior Software Developer, you will collaborate with a team of skilled professionals dedicated to the development, enhancement and support of our cutting-edge Martech Content Platform.

The Martech Content team is responsible for developing and enhancing our platforms for Hub pages, Offers, Help, News and Responsible Gambling, which support the delivery of both customer facing and internal business systems.

Within the Content team, you will develop and support our business-critical Content platform. From the delivery of real time facial recognition systems utilising innovative AI technology, to core operational tooling.

In this pivotal role, you will work alongside our Technical Leads to design and implement robust Martech systems. Your skills as a Senior Software Developer will set the standard to a talented group of developers to innovate and excel in delivering reliable solutions.

Martech Content operates as a full stack team across Golang, React and Cloud platforms. Core skills within the team are Kafka, SQL, .Net, Golang, SQL, NodeJS, CSS, JavaScript and Typescript.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Kafka, Google Spanner, Golang, SQL, .Net, Golang JavaScript and Typescript, or similar alternative technologies.
• Proven experience of guiding development teams throughout technical projects from delivery to successful completion.
• Ability to mentor and coach.
• Strong technical documentation skills.
• Proven record of accomplishment in high availability multi browser compatible development.
• Experience of working with high availability, multiuser and service-based systems.

Additional Information

• Acting as a point of escalation for the team both in and out of office hours.
• Leading and delivering the development of scalable, maintainable and performant systems.
• Applying active governance around overall solution design, while setting the standard for code quality and delivery within the team.
• Ensuring solutions meet the needs of the Business.
• Taking responsibility for work estimation, producing solution documents and ultimately ensuring accurate portrayals of effort can be obtained and subsequently delivered.
• Understanding the technical structure, domain and architecture of the systems the team is responsible for.
• Leading the technical delivery a small team of developers in the design and development of a solution from start to finish.
• Owning technical solutions and their hands on delivery from development to live at low level.
• Distributing knowledge and mentoring of team members.

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