Hybrid Software Engineer – Java, Flutter

at Betfair Romania Development

• Job title: Software Engineer – Java, Flutter
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Java, Kafka, Maven, React
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cluj Napoca, Romania

About the role

• Software Engineer (Java) at Betfair Romania Development maintaining systems serving millions of users. Focused on technology and engineering, driving solutions and architecture across teams.

Responsibilities

• You are enthusiastic, motivated and willing to make your mark.
• You have engineering skills and a passion for technology.
• You have extensive experience with technologies such as Java, http, event streaming (Kafka) and build tools (e.g. Maven).
• You have used dependency injection and inversion of control in previous projects.
• Our developers lead us to offer world class experiences to our customers.
• They are the technical leaders of our teams and drive the solutions and architecture of our systems.
• We encourage them to involve in the business aspects of the solutions we deliver.
• The systems we develop and maintain are serving millions of users.
• Our technology supports the continuous growth of our business, so we must deliver outstanding quality and performance.
• You need to have exceptional technical and problem-solving skills and a pragmatic, leadership attitude.

Requirements

• Have good knowledge of secure coding and best practices
• Make sure there is proper documentation for owned components
• Create and confirm clear requirements with stakeholders
• Minimise manual processes and provide automated solutions
• Understand the dependencies between components and how they combine to deliver service to the consumer and business
• Easily recognise system deficiencies and implement effective solutions
• Suggest alternative methodologies that may be more efficient and actively improve the tooling to improve use cases
• Be familiar with multiple software development methodologies and actively contribute to team and group meetings
• Be able to identify common concerns to encourage code reuse
• Be able to guide the team on the best approach to large pieces of work which span multiple components and teams
• Tackle tasks by researching and weighing up the pros and cons of various routes to select the right approach
• Be an expert in your primary programming language, and be competent in others
• Implement robust solutions that work across multiple channels, platforms and browsers
• Evaluate the impact of changes and guide improvements to your function, area or product
• Use your experience to lead reviews of changes
• Actively generate several alternative solutions to problems
• Continually improve monitoring and alerting of owned services
• Identify areas of technical risk across the department and communicate it to the relevant delivery managers and architects
• Drive QA best practice across multiple components and projects, including adequate UI unit test coverage to ensure that changes do not happen unwantedly
• Be a business and tech expert who can guide the team on the best approach for large pieces of work which span multiple components
• Model high complexity problems - always considering load capacity, system reliability and availability
• Encourage appropriate use of reusability techniques (e.g. design patterns, library extraction, new component creation)
• Support and mentor junior colleagues
• Be able to debug the applications you own
• Attend PIRs that are here to help us learn from failure
• Coach your team on best practices for incident management - you'll be the go-to person for this in area
• Look out for potential problems to avoid incidents
• Make sure that recurrence of incidents is minimised by applying appropriate immediate actions as well as long-term solutions
• React to major incidents in a timely manner
• Efficiently communicate with relevant people such as production operators, incident managers and stakeholders regarding any incident
• Be able to explain the problem in a way that production operators, incident managers and stakeholders can understand
• Take ownership of issues with minimal support or guidance
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of applications and the implications of making changes to them
• Support the Service Managers to resolve incidents within their SLAs
• Actively pursue root cause best analysis

Benefits

• Hybrid & remote working options
• €1,000 per year for self-development
• Company share scheme
• 25 days of annual leave per year
• 20 days per year to work abroad
• 5 personal days/year
• Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
• Extended health, dental and travel insurances
• Customized well-being programmes
• Career growth sessions
• Thousands of online courses through Udemy
• A variety of engaging office events