Software Development Technical Lead

At bet365, 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 9,000 people and serve over 100 million customers in 27 languages. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe, we handle over 6 billion HTTP requests daily and process more than 2 million bets per hour at peak.

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 opportunities for growth, 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 customers worldwide.

Job Description

The Payments team is vital to the continued success of the Business, having responsibility for developing and supporting a growing number of critical systems. You will be working alongside some of the best developers in the industry and will receive exposure to cutting edge technologies, as well as having the opportunity to influence the technical direction of the team.

All systems and services are housed on a Linux operating system and primarily built around open source technologies. You will be developing, enhancing and supporting our Business critical Payments platform, from the delivery of integrations with multiple payment providers, or our balance and transaction management systems, to core operational tooling.

Payments operates as a full stack team who are in the process of undertaking a ground up re-architecture into Golang, React and Cloud platforms. Core skills within the team are Golang, Typescript, SQL, and Kafka.

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

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software development, Proven experience leading development teams and delivering complex projects.

Technology stack experience or alternative technologies is welcome:

• Golang: Building scalable, performant backend services.
• React: Developing modern, responsive front-end applications.
• SQL: Database design, optimisation, and performance tuning.
• Nginx: Configuration for load balancing, reverse proxying, and SSL.
• Third-Party/Bank Integrations: Designing and implementing integrations, understanding API protocols (REST, SOAP) and security, Deep understanding of microservices architecture and system design.
• CI/CD & DevOps (jenkins): Understanding of the development of automation and developer tooling such as Continuous Build and CI systems
• Cloud Environments: AWS, Azure, or GCP - Containerisation: Docker and Kubernetes.
• Kafka: Knowledge of event-driven architectures and stream processing

Main Reponsibilities

• Writing code
• Creating and maintaining tech docs and knowledge base wiki
• Reviewing work items allocated and gain a detailed understanding of work items you are responsible for; provide solutions documents; identify risks and issues; provide ROM's and estimates.
• Inter departmental meetings; technical solution definition; project meetings; small works meetings; architecture meetings – keeping up to date with larger solutions
• Team meetings; problem sharing; raise technical issues; present technical findings if applicable to group
• Catch up with Seniors/Developers; coaching; review of solutions; are they understanding and coding the solutions as defined/expected; are there technical problems you can be helping with
• 1-2-1 with Line Manager; taking tasks for today; this week; this month; feedback on technical issues; performance; recommendations for change; observations
• Technical governance and review; QA of code in Accurev; is code kept daily; is code of the right quality; are solutions as per definition whether formally written or verbally agreed; are there any solution gaps that require closure; does code conform to rules and standards defined
• Admin where needed; timesheets, meeting prep, documentation, checking email; report provision
• Releases; ensure releases are getting out as required; communicate with team leads, remove technical release blockers; keep work flowing; keep the path to live clear and in a known state.

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