Hybrid Software Engineer

at Betfair Romania Development

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

About the role

• Software Engineer developing distributed, high-performance systems for FanDuel's leading sports-tech applications. Collaborating across teams and working on enhancements while writing maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• You write simple and extendable code following our 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 small 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 support your software as part of an on-call rotation.

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

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