Senior Software Engineer - Gaming
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Salary Banding - £50,000 - £68,750

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our phenomenal Gaming Tribe!

The position will be in our Vegas or Casino teams, who are responsible for the biggest products in the Gaming portfolio. We work hard to plan, design and deliver multiple concurrent initiatives and strive to give our customers the best experience and offer unique features to differentiate ourselves in the marketplace. We see huge volumes of traffic with our customers coming on site to play games, spin the prize machine and take part in our outstanding promotional campaigns. You’ll work closely with engineers at all levels, testers, business analysts, the product owner and the delivery lead to ensure we are delivering high quality solutions to business challenges and requirements.

To be successful in this position you should have solid understanding of front-end technologies, as we develop rich and responsive isomorphic applications.

About you

Your front-end engineering skills mean you have a passion for good visual design and well thought out customer experience. You have strong knowledge of front-end technologies as we develop rich and responsive isomorphic applications.

You are passionate about engineering quality, and have a good understanding of application performance, caching, browser support and unit testing to ensure we deliver a high-quality user experience.

You understand types of multivariant testing practices and can contribute to experimentation strategies and implementations for our fast-paced front end.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Reporting into the Lead Software Engineer, you will:

Turn concepts and requirements into highly available web applications and systems using industry standard languages and technologies such as Typescript, React, GraphQL, Docker, Prometheus, AWS, and Terraform.

Actively participate in, and in some cases lead on, application 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 delivery process.

Proactively support and mentor other team members, working with them to help them improve their skills.

Support the implementation of continuous integration to enhance deployment processes.

HOW YOU'LL DO IT

Typescript and React for our services

Docker to containerise them

Jenkins to build them

AWS to host them

New Relic, Grafana and Prometheus to monitor them

BENEFITS

Working at Sky Betting & Gaming means that you'll work for one of the Top 50 UK Best Places to Work on Glassdoor that's also been ranked 4th in the UK for work-life balance (according to Glassdoor)!

Just some of our excellent benefits:

Company bonus scheme paid twice yearly – bi-annual thank you bonus + once a year bonus based on company results

£1,000 annual learning and development fund

Udemy access, which is an online learning and teaching marketplace with thousands of courses

6% employer / 3% employee pension contribution (options to increase company contribution to 9%)

25 days + bank holidays which increases with length of service, as well as options to buy or sell up to 5 days holidays

Free SkyQ Ultra HD premium TV package worth £1,200

32 hours paid volunteering time per year

Invest via the Company Share save Scheme

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BETTER FLEXIBILITY FOR YOU

All our live jobs champion hybrid working, offering a flexible blend of home and office working with full autonomy to decide how many times you travel into the office each quarter. Looking for a remote role? We’re open to discussing remote working for all our live jobs.

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We are working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply for our roles. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences, you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.