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Sporty Group

Weekend Backend Engineer

Reposted 5 Days Ago
In-Office or Remote
9 Locations
Mid level
In-Office or Remote
9 Locations
Mid level
Develop microservices for a top sports betting platform, ensuring stability and scalability to accommodate millions of users. Responsibilities include feature development, code reviews, and mentoring.
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Sporty Group

Partnered with some of the World’s greatest Champions including Real Madrid FC, Michael Essien and Eder Militao, we’re on the lookout for some Champions of our own to be a part of the 'Top Ranked Fastest Growing and Most Successful Online Gaming Brand in the World'. Home to SportyBet, SportyTV, Sporty.com, Football.com and the newly launched SportyFM, we continue to lead with innovation and exclusive sports content.

Sporty is expanding and we're building the world's go to platform for everyday entertainment.

About the role

In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing microservices in a distributed deployment environment with an emphasis on containerisation with Docker and K8S. You won’t just be writing simple CRUD applications, but instead will be working on the core logic of complex systems that are accessed millions of times a day. We wrote our system from scratch about 3 years ago, so you’ll be working with the latest technology and won’t have to worry about decades old legacy code.

With our millions of users a key focus for our platform is that of stability and robustness, by ensuring we have 24/7 coverage on our team we aim to be the best sporting platform in the world.
 
Our Stack (we don't expect you to have all of these)

Language: Java 17
Frameworks: Spring Boot (Tomcat, Netty), Spring Data, Spring Cloud
Architecture: Microservices, REST API, Message Queues
Database: MySQL, MyBatis, ShardingSphere, MongoDB
Caching: Redis (AWS ElastiCache), ElasticSearch
Message Queue: RocketMQ
Cloud: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, AWS CloudWatch

What you'll be doing

  • Work across a Friday-Tuesday shift pattern (including the weekend)
  • Develop highly-scalable mobile internet backends for millions of users
  • Work with Project Managers and other development team members to determine new features and user stories needed in new / revised applications or large/complex development projects
  • Participate in code reviews with peers and managers to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate
  • Respond to support calls for applications in production for quick diagnosis and repair to keep things running smoothly for users
  • Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectives
  • Mentoring less experienced team members 

What you'll bring

  • Minimum of 3+ Years within a relevant role
  • Be based within Europe or Latin America
  • Preferred experience in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data and iBATIS
  • Strong experience with highly-scalable web backends
  • Experience designing highly transactional systems
  • Advanced proficiency in Object Oriented Design (OOD) and analysis
  • Advanced proficiency in application of analysis / design engineering functions
  • Advanced proficiency in application of non-functional software qualities such as resiliency and maintainability
  • Advanced proficiency in modern behavior-driven testing techniques
  • Deep understanding of Microservices
  • Proficient in SQL
  • Expert knowledge of application development with technologies like RabbitMQ, MySQL, Redis etc
  • Strong experience with container and cloud solutions such as Docker, Kubernetes and AWS Cloud
  • An ability to work independently
  • Excellent communication skills in English

What’s In It For You

📍 Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
💰 A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
🌴 28 days paid annual leave
⏰ Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
📝 Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
💻 Top of the line equipment
🌍 Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities

Interview Process

Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team 
Offline Take home assignment
Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)
Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)

Personalised Support

We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone. If you need any adjustments or accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know.

Your Move

If you're excited about this role, even if you don't meet every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you. We understand candidates may hesitate to apply if they don't meet all requirements, however your unique perspective is what helps us innovate and grow together.

If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.

Top Skills

AWS
Docker
Java 8+
Kubernetes
Microservices
MongoDB
MySQL
Redis
Rest Api
Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
Spring Data

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