Software Developer

Full Job Description

WHO ARE WE?

Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) is an international sports betting and gaming operator with a market-leading presence in the UK and Ireland, as well as a range of operations across Europe including Romania, Portugal, and Malta.

By combining an online-led, mobile-led and sports-led philosophy with our proprietary technology, unique products and innovative marketing, we offer a superb experience to our five million customers worldwide.

As part of the Flutter Entertainment group which includes a host of other brands including Sky Betting and Gaming, PokerStars, Timeform, OddsChecker, Sporting Life, SportsBet (in Australia), FOX Bet, TVG and FanDuel in the US, we are part of a global brand employing over 14,000 people in more than 40 offices and 600 retail sites. As well as being a great place to work we pride ourselves on being a responsible operator, committed to making a positive contribution to the communities that we operate in.

WHAT IS OUR CHALLENGE? (Fast, Resilient, Accurate)

• We deliver products at scale for over 5 million customers
• 99.9% of transactions in less than a second
• Our products are resilient with less than 50 minutes downtime expected per year
• The outputs of our products must be accurate, so we employ Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing and Continuous Deployment

Who is in our team?

Our team is a highly motivated development group, working on the global delivery of trading applications. We are a highly collaborative, fast-moving bunch, operating with a DevOps mindset. More importantly we enjoy what we do and have fun doing it. Our developers work closely with our Data Science teams to deploy Machine Learning models at scale across our business. To do this we are building reusable componentry to cover all manner of requests that empower our users to deploy and test innovative solutions as quickly as possible in real world scenarios. We use the best tool for the job and are not constrained by language choice (Java, Scala, C# and python are all in use) and our preference is to host on the cloud as it gives us the gives us access to the power that we need to run our applications.
We love streaming and our default is real-time processing. This does bring it's challenges, but we don't shy away from a problem because it's hard. If we can do it the right way, we will.

What can I expect from the role?

As a member of the team, you will influence, our overall strategy by defining product features, designing system architecture, promoting best practices, and developing quality product. This is a team where you will get a big opportunity to build products that have a big impact on our global customer base and the business.

We are looking for a results-oriented, innovative Software Development Engineer who will work closely with users, product managers and peer developers from other teams to design, build and deploy applications using a host of languages. If you're excited about cloud computing, AI/ML and want to work on and learn more about combining these with streaming technologies such as Kafka and Flink, then we'd love to talk with you.

What are the key responsibilities?

• Deliver high quality product
• Learn from others and help grow those in your team to achieve their best
• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Be responsible for a service in production and carry out production triage
• A testing/quality approach - unit, system/integration and end-to-end testing, TDD, feature toggles, canary deployments

What sort of Qualifications and Experiences are needed for this role?

• Experience developing software using at least one modern object-oriented language. At least 1 of these should involve: designing and developing large-scale, distributed software applications, tools, systems and services.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys the challenge of highly complex business processes and making highly complex technology simple,
• Have worked with data stores, both SQL and NoSQL
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

What are the nice to haves?

• Experience with streaming applications using Apache Kafka
• Using Python with Machine learning
• Proficiency in working with Apache Flink (or a similar real-time stream processing framework like Spark Streaming)
• Experience of containerisation (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes) and deployment to AWS (ECS, EKS, CDK, CloudFormation)
• Experience working with Microservices
• Experience working with an observability tool such as Grafana
• An interest in sports, sports betting and gaming

What Will I Get in Return?

Let's start with a fantastic salary and an uncapped Holiday Allowance - Yes, you heard that right - UNCAPPED holiday! We're all about on going development2, so you'll receive a self-development fund of €1,000 per year to spend on your learning. We love the concept of Flexible Working. That's why we have a host of flexible working options that are available to you. Add to that, we are part of a global company with offices on four continents. We offer the opportunity to work with people and teams in these offices and the possibility to work from those locations for a period or permanently. We are part of a large diverse global company and we encourage and support people to move to different roles or parts of the company to further their career development aspirations.

What else can I expect in the way of benefits?

The Fun Stuff: Annual Target bonus, Health & Wellbeing, with free classes such a yoga, boot camp, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, running & cycling clubs among others and a hybrid working model between home and office working.

What about the not so fun, but necessary, benefits?

We have a subsidised canteen, a great Pension/Flexible Financial Wellbeing package as well as Private health insurance, Life assurance and Income protection.

What are our ways of working?

Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce, and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them;

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only the suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.

By submitting your application online, you agree that: your details will be used to progress your employment application. 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 two years, to consider you for prospective Paddy Power Betfair role.

BETTER FLEXIBILITY FOR YOU

All our live jobs champion hybrid working, offering a flexible blend of home and office working with full autonomy to decide how many times you travel into the office each quarter.

Looking for a remote role? Let's chat – we're open to discussing remote working for all our live jobs.

Inclusive Employer

We are an inclusive employer and we encourage people from all backgrounds. Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them.

If the above appeals to you, click apply now! Alternately reach out to me directly on john.stead@ppb.com - Thanks!

Skills

• Communication Skills
• NoSQL
• SQL
• Mathematics
• Apache Kafka
• Python
• Apache
• AWS
• ECS

Requirements

• Availability Full-Time
• Education Bachelor
• Experience 1 - 4 Year
• Gender No Preference