Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at Betfair Romania Development

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Docker, Gradle, Hibernate, Java, Jenkins, JUnit, Kafka, Linux, Maven, Mockito, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cluj Napoca, Romania

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer developing highly available backend systems for FanDuel products in Romania. Collaborating with engineers to solve complex technical challenges in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• You are efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc.).
• You own parts of product and technology & strive to become a subject matter expert.
• You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices.
• You test your code thoroughly.
• You help balance customer requirements with the team requirements.
• You help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and support ticket reviews.
• You take on projects and make software enhancements that improve the team software and processes.
• You work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it.
• You estimate stories/tasks accurately and deliver them in time.
• You keep yourself up to date with industry tools, utilities, and open-source frameworks.
• You write technical documentation that shares knowledge effectively.
• You mentor and provide guidance to junior colleagues.
• Most importantly, you are humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied and always challenging the norm.
• Responsible for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.

Requirements

• Proven experience writing distributed, highly scalable, and available backend systems & APIs using Java SE and/or Java EE: beans, concurrency, transactions, I/O, servlets, messaging, application monitoring, ORM (Hibernate, JPA)
• Knowledge of release process best practices for APIs and services within production systems - build tools (e.g. BuildKite, Maven, Gradle), version control (e.g. git) and continuous integration systems (e.g. Jenkins).
• Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS.
• A fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Hands-on experience with unit testing/mocking frameworks (e.g. junit, mockito).
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and software best practices.
• Experience with testing concepts, test tools, and integrating testing and best practices in the SDLC
• Desire to learn and develop your skills through a growth mindset
• Passion for working within a fast-paced environment and can adapt to change
• Experience with using AI coding assistants and agentic models such as CoPilot, Cursor in a business setting (Desirable)
• Exposure to Linux operating systems (Desirable)
• Experience using non-relational databases (e.g. MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase) (Desirable)
• Familiarity with AWS / Cloud Computing (e.g. S3, SQS, SNS) (Desirable)
• Experience with analysis & monitoring tools (e.g. DataDog, NewRelic) (Desirable)
• Contact with messaging technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka) (Desirable)
• Container experience (e.g. Docker) (Desirable)
• Knowledge of caching systems (e.g. Redis) (Desirable)
• Understanding of the full development cycle and some experience of Agile development methodologies and supporting tools e.g. JIRA, Confluence (Desirable)

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