Who you'll work with
The Gaming tribe are responsible for the Sky Vegas, Sky Bingo, Sky Casino and Sky Poker products . 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 prize machine and take part in our amazing promotional campaigns. You’ll work closely with engineers at all levels, testers, business analysts, product owners and delivery leads to ensure we are delivering high quality solutions to business challenges and requirements.
Your role in 'better'
Reporting into the Lead Software Engineer, you will:
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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.
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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.
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Passionate about 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.
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Balance the commercial needs of the business against the ideal technical design, proposing sound phased or tactical implementations where appropriate.
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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.
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Support the implementation of continuous integration to enhance deployment processes.
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Work with other Engineers, technical and non-technical stakeholders, and system architects to envision, design and deliver industry leading systems, and to set a sustainable forward strategy.
How you’ll create 'better'
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.
You'll work with:
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Typescript , React, Next.JS and GraphQL for our services
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Docker to containerise them
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Jenkins to build them
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AWS to host them
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New Relic, Grafana and Prometheus to monitor them
You should be prepared to help us support some of our older legacy codebases rolling up your sleeves and digging through some PHP, while helping rebuild our products in more modern solutions. Do not worry if you are not familiar with all our technologies & languages, we want great people who are willing to get stuck in and learn.
About Sky Betting & Gaming
And at Sky Betting & Gaming, better is just the beginning. When you work here, you’ll be able to create the next big thing in a fast- paced, exciting industry.
Our story began in 1999 and we’ve since grown to house a family of iconic brands including Sky Bet - the UK’s no.1 betting app, Sky Vegas - the UK’s no.1 online casino, as well as Sky Bingo, Sky Casino and Sky Poker.
We want to empower you to create a career you’re proud of, to feel like you belong, and provide you with everything you ned to do your job.
Plus, Sky Betting & Gaming is part of the Flutter UK & Ireland family — a collection of big-hitting entertainment brands such as Paddy Power, Betfair and Tombola.
Helping you live your life better
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£1,000 learning fund each year
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32 hours paid volunteering time per year
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Free SkyQ Ultra HD premium TV package worth £1,200
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Twice-yearly bonus (with part of it guaranteed!)
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Pension contribution scheme
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Private healthcare
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Flexible ways of working – home or office, it’s your choice!
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Access to thousands of Udemy courses
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Invest via the Company Sharesave Scheme
We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. 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.
