Backend Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Development of new features and functionality customer products and services, including the production of unit tests as and where required
• Ensuring code quality is maintained at a high level for products and services delivered by the team the Software Engineer is working with
• Ability to input into planning sessions of the team
• Escalate issues in areas of material improvement, notably around performance, security and scalability
• Develop a clear understanding of the overall system architecture and design components, in the context of meeting product requirements
• Where applicable, ensuring that development team processes are aligned with technical processes prevalent in the wider company
• Experience in Agile development processes
• Work as part of a self-organising Agile team to develop new features and functionality for large scale betting websites
• Produce robust, clear, polished code using practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Extract and capture customer requirements using processes like BDD
• Developing solutions that are modular, scalable and portable

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in a traditional science subject, ideally computer science, engineering or information systems from a well regarded university
• At least 2-4 years relevant experience in a development environment
• Working knowledge of one or more major programming languages (such as Java, C/C++, Python, PHP, TCL etc.) and interest in learning other coding language
• Development within Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Lean and Kanban
• Excellent teamwork skills within an agile team environment
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, including presentations to peer groups
• A can do attitude and out-of-the-box thinking
• Able to deal with changing priorities and based on requirements agreed with senior team members including, BA's QA's and software architects
• Familiarity developing on Unix/Linux
• Experience in exposing and consuming RESTful APIs
• A good understanding of relational databases and SQL
• Experience in the use of Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, and Git (BitBucket).
• General scripting skills: Bash, Perl, Python, Javascript etc.
• Experience on Web technologies and internet protocols (Apache, SOAP, WS-., ReST, XML, HTTP, TCP/IP, websockets)
• Web development skills: HTML5, JavaScript, CSS