Frontend Software Developer, Sports Platform

Frontend Software Developer, Sports Platform

bet365 Manchester, England, United Kingdom

At bet365, we're one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 9,000 people and serve over 100 million customers in 27 languages. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market‑leading position, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe, we handle over 6 billion HTTP requests daily and process more than 2 million bets per hour at peak.

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of opportunities for growth, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward‑thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what’s possible for our customers worldwide.

Job Description

As a Software Developer, you will be working in a small team of talented developers, following agile practices to develop high quality scalable solutions on Linux and Cloud platforms.

You will be joining our sports platform pre‑game and in‑play team, working on our flagship Sports product to enhance our product offering with innovative new features. It is an exciting time as we continue to grow based on the constant success of our product, and new opportunities in emerging markets.

In this role, you will help to deliver the best front end and user centric experience for our customers and team members. You will be exposed to challenges beyond the client facing products and have ability to develop low latency, highly available and scalable solutions.

With a solid foundation in software delivery, your technical knowledge, attention to detail, people skills and passion for software development will be invaluable to the success of the team.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience within web client or server‑side development.
• Experience working with front or backend technology.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical matters to stakeholders across different areas of the Business.
• Exposure to mentoring and leadership.
• Experience working with Linux.
• Ability to develop low latency, highly available and scalable solutions.
• Exposure working in an environment with high volumes of transactions.
• Experience working with Scrum or other agile software development methodologies.
• Understanding of the development of automation and developer tooling such as Continuous Build and CI systems.

Additional Information

• Implementing new features onto the existing site.
• Maintaining clean coding practices.
• Identifying technical areas of improvement.
• Supporting Software Product Owners as required.
• Maintaining and enhancing existing code base.
• Supporting the testing team during testing phases of projects.
• Contributing to solution proposals.
• Creating work effort estimates.

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Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Gambling Facilities and Casinos

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