Job Specifications
Backend Engineer – Global Betting Platform
Location – Leeds
Reporting to – Delivery Manager
Style of work – Hybrid (Flexible)
We are part of Flutter Entertainment Group – one of the World´s Largest Groups in the bookmaking industry, with an annual revenue of around 5 billion euros. The Code we develop, powering brands such as Paddy Power, Sky Betting & Gaming, Betfair, Sportsbet, FanDuel, and PokerStars. The Global Betting Platform (‘gbp') is Flutter's flagship proprietary sports betting platform and is being used by multiple Brands across the Group to power delivery of new Sports betting features at pace. Today the gbp product enables the generate of 33% of the total Flutter Group Sportsbook online revenue and has around 1.7m active customers across the multiple brands transacting on it.
As a Backend Engineer, you are 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 elite sports betting platform to power the Flutter Group to innovate and differentiate the experience we can provide to our customers across our multiple brands.
You will be required to program well-designed, testable, efficient code to solve business needs, as well as testing and documenting the implemented solutions.
What You Will Be Doing
As a great teammate in an Agile Team, working together to keep delivering at pace, scale and with demanded quality to support our products you'll be able to:
Implement full software development process
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 realise 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
We Hope You Have
Passion for building a great consumer product that our customers will love
Comfort working with Java (preferable, 8+) or similar OOP Languages
Experience with a high concurrency/high transactional/ highly available platform
Experience of using established design patterns
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 usi
What’s In It For You
Uncapped Holiday Allowance (you read that right!)
Enhanced Pension Scheme (please ask for your location and we will share)
Bonus Scheme
Life Assurance, Income protection, Private healthcare (with option to add dependent)
£1,000 annual self-development learning fund & Access to thousands of Udemy courses
Invest via the Company Share save Scheme, Discount vouchers, Volunteering days.
Enhanced Parental Leave Policy – Maternity up to 52weeks, including 6months 100% pay. Paternity/Adoption leave and paid time off for appointments.
On-site Gym, Canteen and Gaming area
About the Company
Flutter is the world’s leading online sports betting and gaming company, operating some of the most innovative, diverse and distinctive brands in the sector such as FanDuel, Sky Betting & Gaming, Paddy Power, PokerStars, Betfair, Sportsbet, Tombola, Adjarabet, Sisal, Junglee Games and MaxBet.
We have an unparalleled portfolio of world-class brands, global scale and challenger mindset, through which we excite and entertain our customers, in a safe and sustainable way. Using our collective power, the Flutter Edge, we aim to ...
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