software engineer

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join one of our teams as we continue to work on the next generation of online sports betting platforms. As a Software Engineer you’ll have exposure to these systems, as well as extensive training and mentoring as you take our solutions and your career to the next level. As a Software Engineer you will be working alongside with other Software Engineers, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, QAs, and Software Architects.

Responsibilities:

• Development of new features and functionality customer products and services, including the production of unit tests as and where required;
• Ensuring code quality is maintained at a high level for products and services delivered by the team the Software Engineer is working with;
• Ability to input into planning sessions of the team
• Escalate issues in areas of material improvement, notably around performance, security and scalability;
• Develop a clear understanding of the overall system architecture and design components, in the context of meeting product requirements
• Where applicable, ensuring that development team processes are aligned with technical processes prevalent in the wider company
• Experience in Agile development processes
• Work as part of a self-organising Agile team to develop new features and functionality for large scale betting websites
• Produce robust, clear, polished code using practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Extract and capture customer requirements using processes like BDD
• Developing solutions that are modular, scalable and portable

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in a traditional science subject, ideally computer science, engineering or information systems from a well regarded university;
• At least 2-4 years relevant experience in a development environment
• Working knowledge of one or more major programming languages (such as Java, C/C++, Python, PHP, TCL etc.) and interest in learning other coding language
• Development within Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Lean and Kanban
• Excellent teamwork skills within an agile team environment
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, including presentations to peer groups;
• A “can do” attitude and out-of-the-box thinking
• Able to deal with changing priorities and based on requirements agreed with senior team members including, BA’s QA’s and software architects;
• Familiarity developing on Unix/Linux
• Experience in exposing and consuming RESTful APIs
• A good understanding of relational databases and SQL
• Experience in the use of Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, and Git (BitBucket).
• General scripting skills: Bash, Perl, Python, Javascript etc.
• Experience on Web technologies and internet protocols (Apache, SOAP, WS-*, ReST, XML, HTTP, TCP/IP, websockets)
• Web development skills: HTML5, JavaScript, CSS

What can OpenBet give you

• Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace
• The opportunity to interact with global teams, and where appropriate switch teams and projects as you and our business continue to develop and grow
• Tangible and genuine career development at OpenBet, where you can take your career where you want it to go!
• Exposure to real world and business critical projects & the chance to develop some of the world’s leading e-commerce sportsbooks whilst working with various clients and seeing lots of code!