Senior Software Developer

SG Digital is a world leader in gaming entertainment offering the industry's broadest and most integrated portfolio of game content, advanced systems, cutting-edge platforms and professional services. The company is #1 in technology-based gaming systems, digital real-money gaming and sports betting platforms, casino table games and utility products and lottery instant games, and a leading provider of games, systems and services for casino, lottery and social gaming. Committed to responsible gaming, Scientific Games delivers what customers and players value most: trusted security, engaging entertainment content, operating efficiencies and innovative technology

At SG Digital we have 1,650+ employees and over 200 customers. We currently provide our technology to customers across the globe. Our head office is in Las Vegas with principal offices in London, Stockholm, Athens, Sydney, Montreal, and Chicago, as well as 27 other offices worldwide.

The Senior Software Developers role is a key one for the SG Digital Product Engineering team. The Senior Software Developer will be working alongside other Senior Software Developers, Project Managers, QA, Software Architects and Operational Excellence in order to shape and implement the technology and people vision of the team that will drive forward this strategic initiative.

The Engineering team will be more aggressively adopting newer technologies, architectural principles and approaches to development, deployment and monitoring. The Senior Software Engineer will be critical to ensure the highest coding standards and quality of deliverables to the QA and Operational Excellence teams and for adoption by operators. A Senior Software Developer will be expected to both lead and mentor less experienced developers, actively contributing to their day-to-day activities and training needs.

Key Accountabilities

• Development of new features and functionality for Engineering products and services, including the production of unit tests as and where required

• Code reviews for products and services delivered across the wider Engineering team

• Code quality for products and services delivered by the team for whom the Senior Software Engineer is responsible

• Ensuring that products and services adhere to agreed performance KPIs and are delivered in line with Engineering pipeline requirements

• Ensuring that all products and services have agreed levels of test coverage, in line with Engineering requirements, and adhere to agreed architectural and technology (including security) standards

• Provision of detailed release documentation for handover

• Mentorship of a small team of Software Engineers

Key Responsibilities

• Active participation in solutions architecture, design and development, including KPI definition

• Ability to act as the design authority and provide high level estimates of software deliverables for planning purposes

• Proactively identify and address areas of material improvement, notably around performance, security and scalability

• Where applicable, ensuring that development team processes are aligned with technical processes prevalent in the wider company

• Ensure that all team members have a clear understanding of the overall system architecture and design components, in the context of meeting product requirements

• Experience of Agile development processes and scrum roles and responsibilities

• Support the recruitment process of technical resources

Knowledge & Experience

• Mandatory

  • A minimum of 5 years’ hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using Java Enterprise platforms, preferably using UNIX / Linux

  • A minimum of 3 years’ hands-on experience in designing distributed systems, for example using (preferably) DDD or SOA and potentially also a central ‘broker’ (such as Kafka or potentially an ESB)

  • A minimum of 3 years’ hands-on experience in writing Spring Boot applications

  • Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL

  • Demonstrable experience with TDD and / or BDD

  • Extensive experience is the use of Docker, Ansible, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar and Git (BitBucket)

  • Demonstrable experience in developing large distributed systems and concepts such as caching, sharding, consistent hashing, interprocess communications and brokering

• Preferred

  • Hands-on experience in developing microservices using at least one popular framework (Netflix OSS, Spring Cloud, Play etc.)

  • Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (Angular, ReactJS etc.)

  • Some experience in use of Kafka and Cassandra

  • Some experience in Domain Driven Design, the actor model, event-sourcing and CQRS

  • Secondary expertise in Python and PostgreSQL or MySQL would be beneficial

  • General scripting skills: Bash, Perl, Python, Javascript etc.

Domain knowledge is not required, but having worked on major eCommerce or any significant widely distributed system is.

Why would you enjoy working with us at SG Digital?

• Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace.
• The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis and the possibility to switch teams and projects as you and our business continues to develop and grow.
• Training support and the opportunity for further career development in cut edge technologies & practices.
• Tangible and genuine development - at SG Digital, you can take your career where you want it to go!
• Exposure to real work, business-critical projects and the chance to develop some of the world’s leading e-commerce sportsbooks whilst working on exciting client projects.