What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer (Go), Sports Platform position at bet365?
As a Software Engineer you will be developing, enhancing and supporting our Sports Platform. You will work with our product partners and technical folks across teams to ensure successful delivery of the US Sports platform
We're assembling a team and trading platform to help us become a leader in the US sports betting market, building on our strong foundation in Europe. You will play a pivotal role in our growth and success. Our n-tier distributed systems handle large volumes of data, especially during high-profile sporting events, where resilience and stability are essential to delivering an exceptional customer experience.
On the Sports Platform, all systems and services are deployed via containers to the Google Cloud Platform. Our drive to improve concurrency and fault tolerance mean services are written in Go. We are looking for people with experience in server side development who want to explore and learn new technologies.
The day to day work is interesting, challenging and fast paced amidst a hardworking and delivery focused company ethos. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technology’s greatest challenges
This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy (3 days a week onsite, 2 days from home)
The salary range for this position is $85,000 - $135,000 annually.
Preferred Skills, Qualifications and Experience
- Commercial experience of server-side development (services, systems, messaging, middleware). Linux Environment.
- Multiple years of professional software development experience.
- Exposure to functional programming (such as Go, Erlang, Haskell, F#, Scala).
- Experience of distributed systems.
- Pub/Sub systems experience.
- Client/server development experience.
- Ability to problem solve.
- Good communication and team working skills.
- Strong academic background, ideally with a BSc/MSc IT related degree or relevant industry experience.
- Exposure to Google Cloud Platform beneficial.
Main Responsibilities
- Developing low latency, highly available and scalable solutions that process high volumes of transactions.
- Unit & Integration testing.
- Creating and maintaining concurrent distributed components.
- Working on Linux and GNU utilities.
- Supporting and enhancing the existing code base.
- Identifying technical areas of improvement.
- Contributing to solution proposals as required.
- Creating work effort estimates.
bet365 provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Salary : $85,000 - $135,000
