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OpenBet is sport. The world's top sports betting brands choose OpenBet as their partner for world class content, leading tech, and tailored services. We have their back. So, they’re ready with exciting, memorable, and safe sports betting experiences, to entertain millions of players worldwide.

OpenBet’s mission is to power growth and player engagement for operators through a global betting ecosystem that delivers at scale, at speed, at every great sports event.

Our 1300+ talented colleagues are the market's top team. We achieve billions of bets in a season; 60,000+ per minute, 100% uptime (including Cup Finals, Grand Nationals and Superbowl’s) and we're built on 25 years of imaginative technology that our teams improve on every day.

The Team

We are looking for a Graduate Software Engineer to join our OpenServices team as we continue to work on the next generation of online sports betting platforms.

The OpenServices team is made up of a group of Software Engineers and related disciplines; we are dedicated to specific customers with a focus on custom/bespoke feature development, platform upgrades, roadmap acceleration, integration, site reliability and quality assurance.

This opportunity gives you the chance to join the No.1 pit-stop crew for the world’s top sports betting brands, including SkyBet, Paddy Power, William Hill, Ladbrokes & Coral.

As a Software Engineer with OpenBet, you’ll help improve the functionality and performance of our systems, and we’ll give you extensive training, support and mentoring as you take our solutions and your career to the next level.

The Player

What you’ll be doing

As a Software Engineer with OpenBet, you’ll have a varied and broad role including the following:

• Work as part of an Agile team to develop new features and functionality for large scale sports betting systems
• Produce robust, clear, polished code using practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Extract and capture customer requirements using processes such as Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
• Develop solutions that are modular, scalable, and portable
• Work to improve overall system architecture and performance, design components to meet those goals

What you’ll bring

• A bachelor’s degree in a traditional science subject, ideally computer science, engineering, or other STEM subjects
• Demonstrable talent coding in at least one major language (such as Java, C/C++, Python, PHP etc.)
• Talent in writing and using algorithms and assessing time complexity and performance
• Understanding of databases and database schema design
• Ability to learn and be productive with new technologies quickly
• A “can do” attitude and out-of-the-box thinking
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
• Adaptable, with a customer centric can-do approach, willing to embrace flexible working hours to meet deadlines during release cycles and when customers require ad hoc support.

Nice to haves

• Familiarity developing on Unix/Linux
• Scripting skills: any of Bash, Perl, Python, and JavaScript
• Knowledge on CI or CD (e.g. Jenkins) and associated tools
• Test automation experience (unit test or other)
• Experience on Web technologies and internet protocols (Apache, SOAP, WS-*, REST, XML, HTTP, TCP/IP, WebSockets)
• Web development skills: HTML5, JavaScript, CSS

What we can offer YOU:

• Attractive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace
• The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis as you and our business continues to develop & grow
• Tangible and genuine development - at OpenBet, you can take your career where you want it to go!

And if that’s not enough; enjoy flexible working with a hybrid model (minimum of 2 days per week in the office) whilst we provide you with the guidance and development skills you need to progress and enhance your career.

OpenBet is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment.

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