Software Frontend Engineer (12 Months) - Sportsbet, Hybrid
About Betfair Romania Development:
Betfair Romania Development is the largest technology hub of Flutter Entertainment, with over 2,000 people powering the world’s leading sports betting and iGaming brands. Exciting, immersive and safe experiences are delivered to over 18 million customers worldwide, from our office in Cluj-Napoca. Driven by relentless innovation and commitment to excellence, we operate our own unbeatable portfolio of diverse proprietary brands such as FanDuel, PokerStars, SportsBet, Betfair, Paddy Power, or Sky Betting & Gaming.
Our Values:
The values we share at Betfair Romania Development define what makes us unique as a team. They empower us by giving meaning to our contributions, and they ensure that we consistently strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for passionate individuals who align with our values and are committed to making a difference.
Win together | Raise the bar | Got your back | Own it | Positive impact
Sportsbet is the market leader in the Australian online sports betting market. The brand features innovative, easy to use products and personalized value, making it a favourite among users.
Role Overview:
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 & Responsibilities:
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
Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required:
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
We are an inclusive employer. By embracing diverse experiences and perspectives, we create a lasting, positive impact for our employees, customers, and the communities we’re part of. 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.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only the candidates who best meet the job requirements 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 three years, to consider you for prospective roles within the company.
