Senior Backend Developer
Senior backend engineer on an agile team at Blip (part of Flutter Entertainment) owning the full application lifecycle for a high-scale online sports betting and iGaming platform. Day-to-day is designing, coding, testing and documenting solutions in Java, working with Kafka, Akka, Cassandra and related stack, and mentoring junior developers.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Portugal
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven track record of at least 5 years working with Java (preferably Java 8+)
- Experience working with a high concurrency/high transactional/highly available platform
- Familiarity with client-server protocols such as SOAP and REST
- Expertise using established design patterns and reusability techniques (e.g. library extraction, new component creation)
- Excellent communication skills in Portuguese and English
- Soft skills: common sense and a passion for problem-solving; ability to mentor junior team members
Nice to have
- Extensive experience with similar OOP languages (if not Java)
- Working experience with technologies such as Scala, Kafka, Akka, Memcached, Apache Storm, Apache Cassandra, Zookeeper, RabbitMQ
Full description
Blip is a leading tech company focused on software engineering solutions for sports entertainment.
We operate at scale. As part of Flutter Entertainment, we play an essential role in the Group's goal of becoming the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming, developing innovative products and platforms for over 14 million monthly customers worldwide.
We are serious about Tech. We are problem-solvers with big ambitions, keeping a people-first mindset at the core of our work. We prioritize flexibility as we strive to deliver the best technological products and tackle the greatest industry challenges.
Recognizing that everyone brings their own strengths, backgrounds and new perspectives, we empower you to be yourself. That uniqueness shapes the culture of belonging we are so proud of.
The Role...
As a Senior Backend Developer, you're part of an agile Software Development Team and you're responsible for the full lifecycle of an application. You will be trusted to guide a team of your own on the best approach for large pieces of work that span multiple components and teams and as an expert in the area, you'll be the go-to person for big ideas and problem-solving. With your large expertise, we know that you'll add a lot of value to the team - be it by suggesting alternative methodologies that may be more efficient, actively improving the tooling to improve use cases, or even designing and developing a technical solution or new processes.
You can expect to use cutting-edge technologies to deliver amazing value and the best product to our customers while scaling our platform to meet the demands of worldwide markets. You will be required to program well-designed, testable, efficient code to solve business needs, as well as test and document the implemented solutions.
To become one of us you should have...
Our product's backend runs in Java, so a proven track record of at least 5 years working with this technology (preferably Java 8+) would be ideal - but if you have extensive experience working with similar OOP languages, that is not a problem as the underlying concepts are similar - just know that if you join us you'll be working with Java.
Our teams also work with technologies such as Scala, Kafka, Akka, Memcached, Apache Storm, Apache Cassandra, Zookeeper, RabbitMQ, and some others. Ideally, you should have working experience with most/all of these but if not, don't worry - we will have your back!
Apart from this, there are some things we hope you already have, such as:
- Experience working with a high concurrency/high transactional/highly available platform;
- Familiarity working with Client-server protocols such as SOAP and REST;