Junior Java Developer (Bingo)

Company Description

Playtech is the world's largest online gaming software supplier traded on the London Stock Exchange Main Market, offering cutting-edge, value-added solutions to the industry's leading operators. Company's business portfolio consists of the most prominent names in the business, including William Hill, Netplay, Betfred, Mansion, Bet365, etc.

Playtech develops unified software platforms and content for the online and land-based gaming industry, together with providing a range of ancillary services such as marketing, hosting and CRM services. Leading gaming applications include casino, poker, bingo, sports betting, live gaming, casual and fixed odds games.

Behind the eminent success of Playtech's products and services there are around 5000 employees with offices and development centers in 14 countries, the majority of whom are engaged in research and development of current and future gaming technologies.

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Job Description

The Bingo platform supports 50+ bingo sites hosting over 250 unique games/features which run in 1000s of different configurations. 

We have customers around the world who play in different languages and under different rules /regulations (eg UK UKGC, Italy). We maintain a multitude of games, integrations, admin screens, live monitoring tools and native apps.

Our development team in Kiev has a key role in modernising and enhancing the Bingo platform, designing and developing a new suite of tools which will take Bingo to the next level.

This is truly open platform and provides a flexible solution that maximizes player gaming experience whilst minimizing operational costs. Our development unit offers agile environment, welcomes new ideas and technologies, as well as improvements of day-to-day processes and activities. This is a great opportunity for a professional who is looking for challenge and experience cooperating in dynamic truly cross-territory environment.

Technology Stack:

Our applications span over 15 years of development and range from traditional Monoliths to modern Micro Service paradigms. Our tech stack is just as broad, and includes (but not limited to):

• Java 8
• Spring BOOT
• Spring MVC
• Hazelcast
• Hibernate
• Couchbase
• Oracle / Postgres SQL
• Apache Kafka
• Maven
• Jenkins / CI / CD
• RESTFul
• Junit with Mockito

Role Description:

You will have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with a wide range of people, from QA Engineers, Front End Developers, through to the Product and Marketing team.

You are expected to assist with software design patterns, assess areas of weakness within the software infrastructure and work within the team to design and implement superior methodologies and ship them to production. Like any Production stack, ours requires maintenance to ensure reliability and traceability for our 30K+ (and growing) concurrent users.

Candidates will be focused on large scale enhancements to the existing Bingo product, including new systems built using SOA technologies, new game engines, application performance tuning, scalability, and integrations with external systems belonging to new customers.

Responsibilities:

• Design, code and debug core platform components
• Working at all stages of the product lifecycle from requirements capture, through design and implementation to system testing and integration
• Increase efficiency through automation, workflow streamlining, and system optimization
• Keeping current with new technologies and making recommendations to the team 
• Maintaining and enhancing existing product code
• Cooperate with members of the QA and delivery teams to ensure products are tested, installed and maintained to a high standard
• Maintaining high quality coding standards within the team 
• Active participation in agile scrum process.
• Excellent Communication Skills

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in professional software development
• A degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Core Java
• Software Design Patterns
• Database Design (NoSQL / SQL)
• OO and Functional Programming
• Distributed Computing and API Integration best practices
• Good Communication Skills

Good to have:

• Akka / Actor pattern
• Kubernetes
• Google Cloud Platform
• Grafana
• ELK (Elastic Search / Logstash / Kibana)
• Reactive Streams
• Scala, Python, Bash
• Weblogic
• JSPs
• TDD/BDD

Additional Information

We offer:

• Professional growth
• Educational possibilities
• Competitive compensation
• Fully-equipped perfect office space located in the city center ("Palats Sportu" metro station)
• Warm and friendly attitude to every specialist
• Possibility to cooperate with a product company

If you are creative, "out of box thinker" and ambitious enough to make a difference in such a large scale International business, you are more than welcome to apply for one of our open positions at Playtech Kyiv. We'll contact you if there's a fit with one of our opportunities.