About Us
Our mission is to dominate the betting and gaming industry on a global scale and we need the very best Tech talent to help us achieve this.
We recently migrated all of our customers onto our very own proprietary platform - so it's an exciting time to join us. With the help of our new platform, we're able to pioneer new products and drive more advanced, creative technologies. The result? Unrivalled experiences for millions of customers worldwide.
Betfred's Technology department is driven by innovation, and you'll be at the heart of unlocking our new platform's potential. So, if you want to help shape the future of betting and gaming, then it's to time to join us.
Job Purpose
We are looking for a Senior C++ Developer to join the Retail Technology Team. The team focuses on the
development and enhancement of our retail platform supporting our extensive network of shops and self-service betting terminals.
You will be extensively using the Qt framework while working on customer facing applications implementing user interface designs, developing business logic and integrating with hardware.
Job Duties
- Experience in leading the technical direction for a small to medium projects, contribute to the technical architecture with business and product goals that aligns with the north star architecture
- Expertise in writing high quality code using techniques like outside in development and refactoring with confidence.
- Experience in technical documentation (e.g. open API and run books)
- Experience in driving best practice in system design, patterns, and technical standards with the team.
- Expertise in reviewing designs, plan technical work, and guide implementation across engineers.
- Experience in ensuring a team has strong engineering practices, including test automation, CI/CD, and performance monitoring.
- Expertise within data storage (e.g. SQL or NO-SQL), caching and database design.
- Experience with performance and scaling KPIs.
- Knowledge in Coordinate and clarify requirements with product managers, designers, QA, and stakeholders.
- Knowledge in using Observability for high transitional systems.
- Experience in incremental delivery
- Knowledge in Engineering for Failure
- Knowledge in unblocking engineers, facilitate collaboration, and ensure smooth delivery across the team.
- Experience in mentoring engineers and foster growth, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence within the team.
- Knowledge with cross team communication ensuring all teams is pulling in the same direction
- Knowledge of Security and compliance best practice
- Knowledge of modern release paradigms
- Knowledge Stakeholder management
- Knowledge of modern SDLC
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential
- API Design (e.g. rest, GraphQL and events)
- Application monitoring
- DevOps mindset
- High performance, low latency engineering
- Agile development methodologies
- System documentation (e.g. C4/UML)
- Bias for action
- C++ 20 or later (8 years recent experience)
- Experience with Qt/QML 6
Desirable
- Domain based systems design
- SLOs and error budgets
- Root cause analysis
- Postmortem
- Incident resolution
- Networking and application graceful degradation
- Performance optimization
- Working in a product organisation
- AI within the SDLC
- C#
What is in it for me?
- A competitive rate of pay and pension contribution (£50,000 -£65,000)
- Generous discretionary bonus schemes, incentives and competitions
- An annual leave entitlement that increases with length of service
- Access to an online GP 24/7, 365 days a year for you and your immediate family.
- Employee wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
- Long Service Recognition
- Access to a pay day savings scheme, financial coach and up to 40% of your earned wage ahead of payday, through Wagestream.
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