Playtech is the world’s largest online gaming software supplier traded on the London Stock Exchange, 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 Gala, Coral, 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.

Product description:

The Bingo platform supports 50+ bingo sites hosting over 250 unique games/features which run in 1000s of different configurations.   

We have customers around the world who play in different languages and under different rules/regulations (e.g., UK UKGC, Italy).   We maintain a multitude of games, integrations, admin screens, live monitoring tools and native apps.

Our development team in Kyiv has a key role in modernising and enhancing the Bingo platform, designing and developing a new suite of tools which will take Bingo to the next level.

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 a professional who is looking for challenge and experience cooperating in dynamic truly cross-territory environment.

Role Description:

You will have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with a wide range of people, from QA Engineers, Front End Developers, through to the Product and Marketing team.

You are expected to assist with software design patterns, assess areas of weakness within the software infrastructure and work within the team to design and implement superior methodologies and ship them to production. Like any Production stack, ours requires maintenance to ensure reliability and traceability for our 30K+ (and growing) concurrent users.

Candidates will be focused on large scale enhancements to the existing Bingo product, including new systems built using modern technologies, new game engines, application performance tuning, scalability, and integrations with external systems belonging to new customers.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and debug core platform components
• Contributing, maintaining and enhancing existing product code
• Cooperate with members of the QA and delivery teams to ensure products are tested, installed and maintained to a high standard
• Maintaining high quality coding standards within the team 
• Active participation in agile scrum process
• Help, support and share knowledge with colleagues within the team
• Actively learn development practices, technologies and patterns

• Formal degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Knowledge of fundamental data structures and basic algorithms
• Good knowledge of Java Core
• Basic knowledge of OOP design patterns
• Basic understanding and knowledge of Spring Framework principles
• Experience of using relational databases and SQL, understanding of transactions
• Knowledge of networking and HTTP protocol
• Understanding the concept of unit testing
• Ability to solve problems, debug, troubleshoot and maintain the codebase
• Desire and ability to learn effectively
• Passion for technologies, development and engineering
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Understanding of Docker and virtualization
• Familiarity with Unix based operating systems
• Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and CI/CD concepts
• Experience with Maven
• Experience with Spring Framework stack
• Experience with JPA/Hibernate

About the Team:

The technical division of our Playtech Bingo office currently comprises of 3 Agile teams, which consist of Java Back End developers, Front End developers, QA Engineers and Testers, Automation Testers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, DevOps Engineers and Technical Architects. These teams are supported by infrastructure specialists which consists of Linux Systems Administrators, Site Reliability Engineers, WebLogic Administrators and Database Administrators.

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.