senior software engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be expected to both lead and mentor less experienced developers, actively contributing to their day-to-day activities and training needs.  

What you will be working on:  

• Create innovative solutions to enhance product features, performance and maintainability of various core components within the software stack. Assist in the mentoring of team members on software development practices and architecture and design. 
• Ensure code quality by writing unit and integration tests as well as participate in team code reviews. 
• Contribute to the resolution of any issues and incidents related to our various sports data feed and sports trading components within the specified Service Level Agreements (SLA) for our various customers. 
• Ensuring that applications have appropriate hooks into monitoring and alerting tools to assist in DevOps and TechOps monitoring, problem discovery and resolution. 
• Helping migrate existing applications to use automated build, test and release frameworks (ie. Jenkins) 
• Collaborate well in a distributed, cross-functional team environment, interacting with QA's, project managers, product owners, and other departments 

If you’re the right candidate for us, you’ll be able to demonstrate:  

• A bachelor’s degree in a traditional science subject, ideally computer science, engineering, or information systems or demonstrable equivalent experience 
• 5+ years of experience in a Software Development role or similar 
• Working knowledge of one or more major programming languages (such as Java, C#, Python, PHP etc.) and interest in learning other coding languages; 
• Experience with messaging systems such as ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka would be a huge plus 
• Knowledge of build, test and release tools (ie. Maven, Gradle, NuGet, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc) 
• Knowledge and understanding of software processes and development cycles 
• Experience with databases including one or more of SQL (e.g. MySQL, MS SQL Server), NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB) 
• Experience with application monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana would be a plus. 
• Strong mathematical skills 
• Knowledge of building data serving APIs (XML, JSON), especially experience with frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring Cloud or similar 

Why would you enjoy working with us at OpenBet? 

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