Backend Developer

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