Position summary: 

Enable the continued product and platform development of our universal (Web / iOS) front-end by contributing to customer facing code in our  React JS / React Native / iOS / HTML / CSS / TypeScript / NodeJS to meet the growing demand of our front-end clients.

The successful candidate will work as a member of a cross-functional agile development team, contributing to the wider development lifecycle by submitting and reviewing pull requests and participating in continuous delivery and release management.

Our senior engineers are trusted to guide a team of their own. As experts in their area, they're the go-to people for big ideas and problem-solving.

We are looking for somebody who is self-starting, passionate about working with our stakeholders to build and deliver amazing customer experiences.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Platform

• Reliability & Scalability
• Health & Maintenance
• Tooling, Frameworks & Standards
• Awareness and Transparency
• Architecture & Roadmap
• Development and Enhancement (Near Term and Strategic)
• Backlog and Prioritisation
• Cost and Commercial Management

Software Development

• Work independently on all tasks without assistance
• Designing, coding, testing and packaging discrete software components, that work across multiple channels, platforms and browsers
• Developing valuable functional outcomes in line with best practices
• Modifying & troubleshooting existing and new software components
• Creatively reapply existing learnings to new areas
• Leveraging the technology, platforms, frameworks, standards & methods supported in Sportsbet
• Working within, but questioning architectural constraints and guidelines
• Agreeing interfaces for data creation, extraction, transport and transformation

Solution delivery:

• Preparing & maintaining technical documentation (e.g. MRPs, solution design documents)
• Supporting non-technical stakeholders in a technical manner
• Liaising with services software engineers for technical requirements and architectural considerations
• Representing solutions at architectural forums
• Assess the success of any changes made

Support:

• Enabling monitoring, alerting, tracking and logging within software you create
• Effective in the role of a Site Reliability Engineer, able to quickly and confidently respond to incidents, and proactive / planned work to prevent customer issues from occurring in the first place
• Be able to debug frontend applications regardless of the channel (desktop, mobile, native)
• Efficiently communicate with relevant people such as production operators, incident managers and stakeholders regarding any owned incident
• Take ownership of issues with minimal support or guidance
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of applications and the implications of making changes to them
• Actively pursue root cause analysis

Technical competencies:

• Strong JavaScript knowledge
• Exposure to or keen interest to work with TypeScript
• Commercial experience in creating Single Page Applications, knowledge of adaptive and responsive web design principles
• Strong experience in common JS Libraries & Frameworks – especially React JS AND/OR React Native
• Git for version control. Able to resolve merge conflicts on your own and aware of git flow for branching / merging
• Thorough understanding of NPM and package management
• Advanced CSS and complimentary extensions like SASS, LESS, TypeStyle, and FlexBox
• A strong focus on unit testing, integration testing and automation

Advantageous:

• NodeJS
• Exposure to AWS technologies
• Familiarity with CI/CD methodologies and tools such as Jenkins
• React with Redux integration, Jest for mocking / unit testing
• Native iOS app development, including Objective-C AND/OR Swift
• Selenium WebDriver testing, iOS
• Experience in Microservice architecture
• Experience building, testing, supporting and enhancing RESTful APIs using Node.js and Java Spring Boot, and delivering them continuously with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Docker and managing a container based micro-service architecture.
• Experience with graph-based APIs, particularly GraphQL, and operating them at scale
• Experience with Akamai
• Experience with Drupal CMS

KEY REQUIREMENTS 

• Hungry for product outcomes, able to operate in the grey
• Creative, Lateral and Lean thinker
• Prior experience working in an Agile environment, have a breadth of knowledge around Agile ceremonies (iteration planning, retros, backlog grooming)
• Contributing to the team's success by providing reasonable estimates and continuous feedback to team mates about requirements and blockers
• High attention to detail and risk positive
• Commercial awareness & able to leverage technical competence
• Passionate & curious about technology
• Collaborative, team player, product-oriented & influential
• Effective formal & informal communicator
• Willing to adapt, mentor & share knowledge within & across functional practices
• Autonomous in learning, leveraging, adapting & extending technology
• Proven ability to work with ambiguity (e.g can facilitate change with limited certainty and move toward a desired outcome)
• Proven ability to pivot and change, bias for using data and insights to help drive decision making
• Lifelong learner – and can learn on the fly proactively
• Passion for putting the customer (external or internal) at the heart of every decision
• 4+ years of software analysis, design, development and delivery

• 25 days of annual leave
• Sharesave scheme
• „Flexible Benefits” of your choice
• Private health insurance (includes dental insurance and health assessments)
• Free parking
• Thousands of courses online through ‘Udemy'

Ways of working:

Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them;

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only the suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.

By submitting your application online, you agree that: your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record.If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than two years, in order to consider you for prospective Paddy Power Betfair role.