Overview

We are looking for a Scala Developer (Senior) with excellent technical proficiency in test driven, functional development in Scala to work for a 24-hour, market leading delivery of sports data in a fast-paced and fun-loving business.

This hybrid based role is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with some leadership experience who wants to collaborate with other software engineers, DevOps engineers, and product managers across the UK and EU developing best practices and delivering unique products for a sport focussed business.

 What you'll do

• Understand the direction the business is taking with regards to its products development and contribute to the advancement of the associated technical vision and roadmap.
• Support and mentor junior developers in advancing their knowledge and contribution level.
• Ensure that the selected architecture, software design as well as technology and infrastructure choices are meeting all functional and non-functional requirements.
• Contribute directly to the core parts of the code in key projects under active development in the Company.
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• Adopt and follow a good pace of software refactoring and paying off the technical debt.
• Facilitate high level estimating and release planning; take part in significant releases.
• Effectively communicate with the product owners, testers, and business stakeholders.

What we expect

• Excellent technical proficiency in test-driven, functional development in Scala.
• Code development using the core Typelevel frameworks, such as Cats, Cats Effect, http4s, and fs2.
• Familiarity with key Architecture and Software Engineering methodology.
• Experience working with the network stack and Linux for service hosting and day-to-day use.
• Extensive experience with SQL and NoSQL stores.
• Good experience with algorithmic complexity concepts and performance tuning.
• Experience working with JIRA, Kanban methodology or similar.
• Master’s or PhD degree from an accredited college or university (or equivalent certification and/or relevant work experience).
• Experience managing, leading and/or mentoring others.
• Some evening and weekend work required in line with the sports calendar.

Clear thought leadership

• Keen on innovation.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Logical and structured approach to problem-solving.

Communication

• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Capability to guide and influence decision making with business stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience using Confluence.
• Ability to understand applied mathematical literature.
• Ability and interest to follow the bleeding edge technologies and proposing their use in the business.
• Develop, document, and test the Application Process Interfaces (API’s).
• Continuous Integration and Deployment (GitHub, Jenkins, Docker).
• Exposure to the sports data information or betting systems domain is a bonus.
• Exposure to financial, trading, and risk management systems is an advantage.

Our recruitment process consists of an introductory call, a technical test to get to know your skills, and a technical interview to discuss your approach and get to know you better.

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