Software Developer, Backend

  • Full-time
  • Workplace Type: Hybrid
  • Department: Sports Platform
  • Shift Pattern: n/a
  • Job Type: Standard

Company Description

At bet365, 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 9,000 people and serve over 100 million customers in 27 languages. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe, we handle over 6 billion HTTP requests daily and process more than 2 million bets per hour at peak.

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 opportunities for growth, 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 customers worldwide.

Job Description

As a Software Developer, you will be working in a small team of talented developers following agile practices to develop high quality, scalable solutions on Linux and Cloud platforms.

You will be joining our Sports Placement and Cashout team, working on our flagship Sports systems, enhancing our product offering with innovative new features. This is an exciting time, as we continue to grow based on the constant success of our product and new opportunities in emerging markets.

In addition to the team delivering the best front end and user centric experience for our customers, our team members are also exposed to challenges beyond the client facing products, developing low latency, highly available and scalable solutions. 

With a solid foundation in software delivery, your technical knowledge, people skills and passion for software development, will be invaluable to the success of the team. This role also offers the opportunity to be trained in Golang.

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

Qualifications

  • Commercial experience within server-side development. 
  • Technically strong in one or more of the following languages Golang or C#.
  • Exposure to TypeScript, React, JavaScript, SQL, HTML5 and CSS3.
  • Ability to clearly communicate technical matters to stakeholders across different areas of the Business. 
  • Experience working with Linux. 
  • Developing low latency, highly available and scalable solutions. 
  • Working in an environment with high volumes of transactions. 
  • Exposure to mentoring or leadership.
  • Development of automation and developer tooling, continuous build and CI systems.
  • Experience working with Scrum or other agile software development methodologies. 

Additional Information

  • Identifying technical areas of improvement.
  • Supporting Software Product Owners as required.
  • Creating work effort estimates.
  • Supporting the testing team during testing phases of projects.
  • Contributing to solution proposals.

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