React Native Team Lead

  • Full-time

Company Description

We are Playtech, market leaders in the gambling and financial trading industries.

Leaders in next generation technology and content; regulated markets and responsible gambling.

Pioneers of Omni-channel gambling offering seamless, anytime, anywhere gameplay; of the ultimate gaming experience; and the best-performing content.

Innovators in games design; software and services; and data-driven optimisation.

We deliver the complete solution and game changing results for the world’s biggest brands.

One-stop Shop for Gaming Operators.

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. Since Playtech's inception in 1999, its approach has been centred on the continual development of best-of-breed gaming products and content, and its success built upon strong partnerships with our licensees.

Job Description

As a React Software Team Lead in our Mobile Native team, you will become a leader of a diverse, highly technical development team, where everyone's input is valued. Our focus is on solving complex, data-heavy problems in the most efficient way possible. Our office is a highly collaborative environment and we like to play each person to their strengths, ensuring they are always working within a team that will not only challenge them but ultimately proves fulfilling. 

Technically, we’re Open Source advocates, always ensuring that we keep our tech stack as cutting edge as possible. Your role as a Software Engineer will be to create and maintain UI related applications within our service architecture using a mix React (React Native), Redux, HTML, (S)CSS. Experience in these specific technologies is highly desirable along with Linux environments and it is essential to have experience in general programming paradigms. 

Your Role: 

  • Being a mentor for team members 
  • Performing code reviews for your peers 
  • Leading communication with internal and external stakeholders 
  • Development of our Sportsbook product and UI applications for back office and customer facing web sites 
  • Implementing new features and maintaining production code 
  • Designing innovative solutions to complex problems 
  • Contributing meaningful peer code reviews
  • Implementing unit tests 
  • Working in an agile development process

Qualifications

Essential:

  • 4+ years of experience in professional software development 
  • You know how to build multi-platform product 
  • Experience using ES6+, React (React Native), Redux (or other state management architecture such as Mobx), Saga, Webpack 
  • Experience within a highly technical environment, solving complex problems 
  • Good understanding of client-server architecture and web protocols 
  • Good communication skills in English, in speech as well as writing 

Desirable:

  • Degree in Computer Science, Information Technologies or similar 
  • Experience RESTful APIs
  • Understanding of the UI and UX concepts 
  • Understanding of Scrum or Kanban principles, experience with JIRA 
  • Git 

Highly Valued:

  • Experience with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, GIMP or similar 
  • Previous commercial experience in Gambling or Sports Betting sector
  • Outside interest in programming reflected by a blog/portfolio, GitHub, Bit Bucket profile or personal website

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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