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Senior Software Developer, FollowScores

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Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Senior level
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Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Senior level
Develop and maintain backend systems for the FollowScores football scores app, delivering data through WebSockets and REST APIs. Lead a small development team in designing, building, and deploying scalable, high-availability solutions. Establish code quality and solution governance, estimate work, produce technical documentation, ensure business requirements are met, and mentor developers while owning technical delivery from development through production.
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Company Description

We’re one of the world’s leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 10,000 people and serve over 120 million customers in 26 languages.

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of growth opportunities, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what’s possible for our global worldwide.

Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, featuring more than 1.38 million In-Play sporting events a year. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe (750,000), we handle over 6 million HTTP requests daily and process more than 1.5 million bets per hour at peak.

Job Description

As a Senior Software Developer, you will implement and maintain systems to support the features being delivered in our FollowScores app, while ensuring high quality standards for our software products.

FollowScores is a football scores app and our goal is to continue growing it’s userbase over the coming years, introducing new and innovative features as part of its development roadmap.

The FollowScores backend team is responsible for the systems involved in delivering data to our iOS and Android apps, using web sockets and REST APIs. Core skills within the team are Golang, Redis and GCP.

Your skills as a Senior Software Developer will set the standard to a talented group of developers to innovate and excel in delivering reliable solutions, while fostering a collaborative and dynamic environment.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.

Qualifications

  • Knowledge of Golang, Redis and GCP, though expertise in similar or alternative technologies are welcome.
  • Experience in leading development teams and delivering technical projects to successful completion.
  • Ability to mentor and coach staff.
  • Good technical documentation skills.
  • Proven record of accomplishment in high availability multi browser compatible development.
  • Experience of working with high availability, multiuser and service-based systems.

Additional Information

  • Leading and delivering the development of scalable, maintainable, and performant systems.
  • Applying active governance around overall solution design, while setting the standard for code quality and delivery within the team.
  • Ensuring solutions meet the needs of the Business.
  • Taking responsibility for work estimation, producing solution documents, and ultimately ensuring accurate portrayals of effort can be obtained and subsequently delivered.
  • Understanding the technical structure, domain, and architecture of the systems the team is responsible for.
  • Leading a small team of developers in the design and development of a solution from start to finish.
  • Owning technical solutions and their hands on delivery from development to live at low level.
  • Distributing knowledge and mentoring team members.

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