Senior Software Engineer

Company Description**
OpenBet** leads the online gaming and sports betting industry with cutting-edge software and technologies that put the player first. Our solutions are used by some of the world's most successful operators, including **William** **Hill**, **Ladbrokes**, **Paddy** **Power**, **Betfair** and **SkyBet**. Our world-leading OpenSports product portfolio processes over 70% of all UK & Gibraltar regulated bets, on a system that offers unparalleled levels of performance and scalability.

Our customer teams ensure that our global clients receive ongoing support and development to keep their sports betting solutions ahead of rapidly evolving tech trends.

With offices in the **UK, North** **America**, **Australia**,** Greece,** and **New Zealand,** over 20 customers in the online gaming industry and over 100 partners worldwide, **OpenBet** provides the most open gaming platform and a product suite that ensures the very best and most flexible solution available. We are passionate about the work we do and have built a reputation on the high quality of our software, our delivery and client satisfaction.

**Job Description**:
OpenBet is looking for a **Senior Software Engineer** to join one of our teams as we continue to work on the next generation of online sports betting platforms.

As a Senior Software Engineer with the OpenBet Team, you’ll have exposure to these systems, as well as extensive training and mentoring as you take our solutions and your career to the next level. These are just some of the tasks you may work on as a Senior Software Engineer at OpenBet.
- Involvement with the Business Analysts to provide **technical support **for small, medium and large projects.
- Develop **new features** and functionality for high transaction, large scale betting websites.
- Participate in **code reviews.**:

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Design** solutions that are modular, scalable and portable.
- Work to improve overall system **architecture** and design components accordingly.
- Answer business stakeholders' **queries about the platform.**
- Investigate and develop **performance** improvements to the platform.
- Develop new solutions to resolve **ongoing issues** with the platform.
- Work with different partners to solve **integration** issues
- Assist the support team in investigating **production issues.**
**These are just some of the tasks you may work on as a Senior Software Engineer at OpenBet.**
- 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.
- Work to improve overall system architecture and design components to meet those goals.

Qualifications**
Demonstrable talent coding in at least **one major language **(such as Java, C/C++, PHP etc.)
- Demonstrable talent in writing and using algorithms and assessing time complexity and performance
- Substantial and demonstrable commercial experience in developing software
- Demonstrable experience in large scale system design
- Application Performance tuning
- Ability to learn and be productive with new technologies quickly
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
- A “can do” attitude and out-of-the-box thinking
- Experience of informally coaching and leading less experienced Software Engineers
- Ability to influence for a positive outcome
- Challenges the status quo & looks for new and innovative ways of doing things
**It would also be great to see these skills/experiences as well**:

- Familiarity developing on Unix/Linux
- Scripting skills: Bash, Perl, Python, and JavaScript
- knowledge on CI or CD and the associated tools
- Test automation experience (unit test or other)
- Experience on Web technologies and internet protocols (Apache, SOAP, WS-*, ReST, XML, HTTP, TCP/IP, websockets)
- Web development skills: HTML5, JavaScript, CSS

Additional Information**
What can OpenBet give you**:

- Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace
- The opportunity to **interact with global teams**, and where appropriate switch teams and projects as you and our business continue to develop and grow
- Tangible and genuine **career development**:

- at OpenBet, where you can take your career where you want it to go
- Exposure to **real-world and business-critical projects** & the chance to develop some of the world’s **leading e-commerce sportsbooks** whilst working with various clients and seeing lots of code
**And if that’s not enough,** you will get to enjoy **flexible working, **whilst we provide you with the guidance and development skills you need to progress quickly and enhance your career.