The company is one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming groups, operating both online and in the retail sector. With offices across five continents and licenses in more than 20 countries, they operate some of the most well-known and iconic brands in the industry with more than 250 years of combined history – names such as Ladbrokes, partypoker, bwin and Coral.
As a Team & Technical Lead you will be heading the team responsible for developing, maintaining and improving a set of highly scalable, robust and versatile in house developed core .NET services - used by all our customer-facing websites. Your creativity, problem solving skills, passion for development and your expertise with the .NET framework and web services in particular will be leading the team to evolve and continuously improve the product.
You will be heading an Agile Scrum team and will contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle. You're responsible for the overall delivery of the team, deciding the priorities as well as giving directions and are in ownership of the respective Backlog.
What you'll be doing:
Act as first technical contact person for the assigned projects and report on the progress as required
Implement standards for delivery of projects across the team
Design and develop high quality software solution based on business requirements
Define non-functional requirements and ensure implementation according to it
Ensure operational readiness of applications
Discuss, understand and refine business requirements together with business peers
Share/spread knowledge within and across teams
Drive and support process improvements
What we need from you:
Solid technical education and at least 5 years of professional experience in the area of web software development
Very experienced in developing web development in .NET c#
Very experienced in the SOA area (web services and similar technologies – REST, PUSH, WSDL, WCF, WebAPI)
Analysis, specification and validation of requirements for software
Understand the different type of requirements (customer, functional, performance, design, derived and allocated requirements)
Knowing how to design software under consideration of key aspects (like scalability, performance, maintainability, reliability, reusability, security, usability, etc.)
Understand design patterns and know how and when to use them
Know how to write maintainable (commented), efficient/performant (memory, etc.), reliable (accurate exception handling, etc.) and robust (clear interfaces and no runtime errors) code
Beneficial:
Knowledge about performance-aspects of web applications
Previous experience leading a team incl. line manager responsibilities
Previous experience working in a large-scale and fast paced environment
Experienced with migrating to .NET core
Experienced with TeamCity and the build-pipeline
Experienced with ELK (Kibana), AppDynamics
What we can offer you:
Hybrid working – We offer 2 days a week working from home
Culture – We were once a startup and still have that growth mindset (despite our size). Our industry is renowned for the speed it operates at, and the incredible pace of innovation. Our values include winning together, being bold, exciting customers and driving innovation.
Development – Both personal and professional development are important to us. Everyone gets 2 paid days to focus on development, along with subscriptions to learning resources like cross knowledge, linkedin learning and our own learning room. Monthly Empower talks from inspirational leaders from outside the industry.
Wellbeing – Our employee assistance program offers free advice on everything from work advice, relationship advice, legal information, and financial advice. Everyone gets a free subscription to the unmind (mental wellbeing) app. Counselling session are available through EAP. We have a monthly schedule of wellbeing sessions and talks with each office having wellbeing champions and coordinators.
Flexible benefits package - Annual bonus, employee share scheme, health screening, life assurance, matching pension contributions, lunch vouchers, enhanced vacation package, retail discounts, discounted gym membership, with the ability to flex your benefits package to suit your needs
Offices - Newly refurbished offices, with chillout spaces and modern facilities
Social - Fantastic programme of free social activities, from our summer parties and Friday night drinks, we've got you covered.
Sports - We're as passionate about sports as you are, if you can name a sport, we've probably got a company team.
Salary starting from 90k (experience depending)
Interested? Send your CV to katarzyna@itjobsworldwide.com I specialize in Backend Developers recruiting for IT Jobs Worldwide, if you wish to discuss this or other job opportunities, please feel free to contact me. For more job opportunities see: www.itjobsworldwide.com
