Join Kindred Group as a Senior Software Engineer in Pricing, where you'll develop and optimize production-grade services for a cutting-edge sportsbook experience. Ideal for engineers with strong Java skills and an interest in sports betting.
At FDJ UNITED, we don't just follow the game, we reinvent it. FDJ UNITED is one of Europe’s leading betting and gaming operators, with a vast portfolio of iconic brands and a reputation for technological excellence. With more than 5,000 employees and a presence in around fifteen regulated markets, the Group offers a diversified, responsible range of games, both under exclusive rights and open to competition. We set new standards, proving that entertainment and safety can go hand in hand. Here, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to delivering the best and safest entertaining experiences for our customers every day. We’re looking for bold people who are eager to succeed and ready to level-up the game. If you thrive on innovation, embrace challenges, and want to make a real impact at all levels, FDJ UNITED is your playing field. Join us in shaping the future of gaming. Are you ready to LEVEL-UP THE GAME?
Key Responsibilities
- Develop production-grade technical solutions to business requirements, using appropriate design patterns
- Challenge, refine, and proactively suggest improvements to business requirements based on technical expertise and domain knowledge
- Build robust APIs and streaming interfaces to allow controlled access to the Pricing team’s complex statistical models and data products.
- Champion best SWE practices for testing, observability, CI/CD, and automation within the wider team
- Constructively critique solutions and code of peers
- Work alongside Pricing Engineering managers to plan the effective delivery of workstreams.
- Promote work and contributions for use within the team and the wider business, through global collaboration, conversations, written reports, and presentations.
Expected Attributes
- A minimum of 5 years of commercial experience in a SWE role focused on implementing complex requirements within a low latency microservice architecture
- Excellent Java skills (or similar languages, e.g. C#), with the ability to write high-quality, performant, and well-documented code independently
- Demonstrable experience working with different architectures and systems which you can draw on to solve new challenges
- The ability to write and/or digest technical GAP/Architecture documents into a sequence of deliverable work items
- An excellent communicator, both written and verbal, able to explain complex topics to non-specialist stakeholders
- A problem-solving growth mindset with the ability to pick up new tools and concepts quickly
- Able to be a friendly and approachable team member, capable of mentoring more junior colleagues.
Desirable Attributes
- Masters degree or higher in a STEM subject.
- Experience with incident management best practices
- Experience with writing and analysing performance tests
- Experience with automation testing
- Experience writing and deploying software within cloud-native environments
- Experience working with sporting data or demonstrable knowledge and interest in this area, including an interest in sports betting.