Our client is one of the world’s leading names in sports betting technology and trading. The Group employs almost 300 staff with   in London , South Africa, Canada and across the UK. We have two principal divisions, a B2C operation, the pre-eminent sports spread betting company, and Solutions, a rapidly growing B2B operation which supplies real-time pricing and sports trading capabilities to sportsbooks around the globe.

We are currently building a fully functional Scala team to help with the development of our new platform.

The Person

• Be keen to learn and get exposure to a wide range of technologies
• Want to work on an industry leading platform
• Have a passion for writing quality and testable code
• Enjoy working in a continuous delivery environment

The Role

• Playing a key part of our Cape Town team
• Development of a Greenfields projects for our new platform
• Develop requisite diagnostics and monitoring tools for early detection of system faults
• Develop software iteratively that works seamlessly in a continuous deployment environment; biased on TDD and BDD approaches
• Establish early and continuous feedback loops with stakeholders for high quality outcomes
• Work closely with Traders and 1st line support to troubleshoot customer issues
• Be an active member of the team suggesting ways we can learn and improve

What We Are Looking For

• Someone with a passion for functional languages
• A solid understanding and demonstrable experience with Scala and the JVM environment
• Proven record in developing scalable, highly-available and highly-performing middle-tier components
• Experience in developing HTTP-based APIs and implementation of RESTful services with JSON
• Push technologies (e.g. Akka, Web Sockets, SignalR)
• Experience with communications technologies (e.g. WCF, Web API, Protocol Bu?ers) and message queues (e.g. Kaaa, RabbitMQ)
• Technical background in web development with HTML, OO JavaScript, CSS, jQuery and AJAX
• Worked on UI frameworks such as React/Angular/Knockout
• Experience with relational (e.g. PostgreSQL) and NoSQL data stores (e.g. Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra) and in-memory distributed caches (e.g. Redis, Aerospike) and search products (e.g. ElasticSearch)
• Proven ability in delivering fully-tested software iteratively and continuously
• Fully equipped to deliver software on a multi-developer environment
• You enjoy autonomy and responsibility

Extra Marks If You Have

• Understanding of concurrency and distributed systems
• Understand the concepts of REST and HATEOS
• A passion for sport and some betting knowledge