BackEnd Developer – gbp Evolution
The Role ...
As a Backend Engineer, you are part of a Software Development Team, responsible for the full lifecycle of an application. You will be working as part of a multiple team, multiple location environment to further evolve the gbp platform to become a truly world-class sports betting platform to power the Flutter Group to innovate and differentiate the experience we can provide to our customers across our multiple brands.
Reporting to a Delivery Manager in a delivery team formed by 5 Developers and 1 QA, you will be using cutting-edge technologies to deliver amazing value to our customers, while scaling our platform to meet the demands of worldwide markets. You will be required to program well-designed, testable, efficient code to solve business needs, as well as testing and documenting the implemented solutions. You will have a bias for action and can break down complex problems into steps that drive the scalability, performance and stability of our platform.
What you will be doing...
As a team player in an Agile Team, working together to keep delivering at pace, scale and
with demanded quality to support our products you will be able to:
- Execute full software development life cycle
- Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to support the Product Owner with requirements and the team with solutions
- Autonomously write well-designed, testable and efficient code
- Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
- Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
- Develop unit, component and integrated tests, with the guidance of team's QA
- Document and maintain software functionality
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems
- Deploy applications in a Continuous Integration platform
- Ensure software is updated with latest features / versions in a timely manner
What We're Looking For...
- Passion for building a great consumer product that our customers will love
- Comfort working with Java (preferable, 8+) or similar OOP Languages
- Experience working with a high concurrency/high transactional/ highly available platform
- Experience of using established design patterns
Expertise we´d love to see
- Familiarity working with Client-server protocols such as SOAP, REST
- Experience working with Kafka and message queueing systems
- Knowledge of Scala, Akka, memcached, Apache Storm, Apache Cassandra, ZooKeeper
- Awareness and experience in using agile methodologies
Competencies we hope you have
- You can establish close relationships with members of the development community inside and outside of own delivery team, underpinned by trust, integrity and respect.
- You are objective, impartial, and unbiased, ensuring equal treatment for all and that decisions taken are based on objective criteria. You are pragmatic and passionate for the art of problem solving.
- You work effectively and in partnership with other delivery community members inside and outside of own delivery team on company shared goals that align towards the achievement of the Flutter group technology strategy.
- You understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives on an issue and
- You are able to adapt your approach in order to achieve a successful outcome.
