Frontend Team Leader [011790]

  • Full-time

Company Description

Playtech is the world’s largest online gaming software supplier traded on the London Stock Exchange Main Market, offering cutting-edge, value-added solutions to the industry’s leading operators. Company’s business portfolio consists of the most prominent names in the business, including William Hill, Netplay, Betfred, Mansion, Bet365, etc.

Playtech develops unified software platforms and content for the online and land-based gaming industry, together with providing a range of ancillary services such as marketing, hosting and CRM services. Leading gaming applications include casino, poker, bingo, sports betting, live gaming, casual and fixed odds games.

Behind the eminent success of Playtech’s products and services there are around 5000 employees with offices and development centers in 14 countries, the majority of whom are engaged in research and development of current and future gaming technologies.

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Job Description

Mobile and Web Platform is new product in Playtech portfolio that is custom developed CMS. The platform offers a joint solution for mobile and web clients and is delivered as out of the box portal product or as part of complex customer tailored solution. This is truly open platform and provides a flexible solution that maximizes player gaming experience whilst minimizing operational costs.
Our development unit offers agile environment, welcomes new ideas and technologies, as well as improvements of day-to-day processes and activities. This is a great opportunity for professional who is looking for challenge and experience working in dynamic international environment.

Responsibilities:

•             Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentor ship
•             Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery
•             Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
•             Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team
•             Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and team leads to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web- and mobile-based applications
•             Assist in creating documentation, making estimates and work plans
•             Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards
•             Work with teammates in the migration of legacy application to current top-notch technologies
•             Analyze and resolve technical and application problems
•             Assess opportunities for application and process
•             Provide third-level support to business users

Qualifications

•             4+ years experience as a Software Developer 
•             Proven prior experience in a technical leadership position
•             Vanilla JavaScript and frameworks like React, BackBone.js
•             Understanding of ECMAScript specification and new features of ECMAScript 2018
•   CSS3, HTML5
•             Experience with SASS, PostCSS preprocessors
•             Basic linux knowledge
•   Experience with bundlers and task runners
•             Extensive experience designing and developing software
•             Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment environments
•             Experience with agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum
•             Internally motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment 
•             Strong communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders 
•             Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes

As a plus:

•             Experience with database development including relational database design, SQL and ORM 
•             Experience with user interface prototyping
•             Node.js

Additional Information

We offer:

• Professional growth
• Educational possibilities
• Competitive compensation
• Fully-equipped perfect office space located in the city center (“Palats Sportu” metro station)
• Warm and friendly attitude to every specialist
• Possibility to cooperate with a product company

If you are creative, “out of box thinker” and ambitious enough to make a difference in such a large scale International business, you are more than welcome to apply for one of our open positions at Playtech Kyiv. We’ll contact you if there’s a fit with one of our opportunities.

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