Software Engineer JVM - Gaming

Job Description

We are on the lookout for an excellent Software Engineer to join a brand-new squad within the Gaming Tribe! This squad will deliver the technical capabilities that allow our customers to have a truly tailored and personalised experience when using our products.The ideal candidate will bring a strong base knowledge of engineering principles, experience of both developing and maintaining always-on live systems, and with a curiosity about streaming and high throughput systems.As a Software Engineer youll be leading the way with the latest technologies including:

• JVM/Kotlin and Javascript/Typescriptfor our services
• Kafka and ElasticSearch for data storage and transport
• Dockerto containerise them
• Jenkinsto build them
• AWSand Kubernetes to host them
• GrafanaandPrometheusto monitor them

Its quite OK if some of the above is new to you, so long as you have an appetite and energy for imparting what you know, and learning what you dont.About youEngineering means more than authoring quality, tested code. It includes the end-to-end delivery pipeline; code driven deployment infrastructure; automated test safety nets; and effective operational instrumentation and incident response.Youre a phenomenal teammate, who works collaboratively to achieve the shared squad goals. You are unafraid to challenge aspects outside your direct remit and passionately champion the right thing.Youll enjoy working in an architectural domain and youre an advocate for sustainable software engineering; you strive for good technical design but dont gold plate or prematurely abstract for a re-use that never materialises.Reporting into the Lead Software Engineer, you will:

• Turn concepts and requirements into highly available streaming applications and systems using industry standard languages and technologies such as Kotlin (or Scala/Java), Kafka, Javascript, Docker, Prometheus, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Actively participate in application and database design, data flows and detailed technical design. Ensure that analysis includes the wider view of technical and business impact.
• Take ownership for code quality, security and scalability and have an equal grasp of the overall system you are working on and how it meets the needs of the end users, and business objectives.
• Balance the commercial needs of the business against the ideal technical design, proposing sound phased or tactical implementations where appropriate.
• Understand the importance of non-functionals such as real-time monitoring, good alert design and great logging strategies. Ensuring systems perform well to deliver the best user experience possible is something you consider as part of the normal deliveryprocess.
• Collaborate with other team members; learning from them, and in turn working with them to help them improve their own skills too.
• Support the implementation of continuous integration to enhance deployment processes.

About the Gaming TribeFast-moving, and spinning with energy and excitement, were the Tribe that designs, develops, tests, maintains and delivers our four main gaming products - Vegas, Casino, Poker and Bingo.Our cross-functional teams in Leeds shape highly available, scalable and resilient systems to support our apps and websites. Focusing on automation, infrastructure-as-code and real-time data, we use the right tech to get the job done.Over 20,000 people play our games every day and we process 44 million+ game transactions a week. So we have to be on the ball 24/7. The stakes are high. Are you in Why not have a look at the Gaming Tribe video: 2ohIIBh Mon to FriStandard Reporting into the Lead Software Engineer, you will:

• Turn concepts and requirements into highly available streaming applications and systems using industry standard languages and technologies such as Kotlin (or Scala/Java), Kafka, Javascript, Docker, Prometheus, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Actively participate in application and database design, data flows and detailed technical design. Ensure that analysis includes the wider view of technical and business impact.
• Take ownership for code quality, security and scalability and have an equal grasp of the overall system you are working on and how it meets the needs of the end users, and business objectives.
• Balance the commercial needs of the business against the ideal technical design, proposing sound phased or tactical implementations where appropriate.
• Understand the importance of non-functionals such as real-time monitoring, good alert design and great logging strategies. Ensuring systems perform well to deliver the best user experience possible is something you consider as part of the normal deliveryprocess.
• Collaborate with other team members; learning from them, and in turn working with them to help them improve their own skills too.
• Support the implementation of continuous integration to enhance deployment processes.

About the Gaming TribeFast-moving, and spinning with energy and excitement, were the Tribe that designs, develops, tests, maintains and delivers our four main gaming products - Vegas, Casino, Poker and Bingo.Our cross-functional teams in Leeds shape highly available, scalable and resilient systems to support our apps and websites. Focusing on automation, infrastructure-as-code and real-time data, we use the right tech to get the job done.Over 20,000 people play our games every day and we process 44 million+ game transactions a week. So we have to be on the ball 24/7. The stakes are high. Are you in Why not have a look at the Gaming Tribe video: 2ohIIBh