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Position Purpose:
We are looking for a dedicated, self-motivated, driven technical professional to work in a team of engineers developing mobile applications for different platforms iPhone/Android/BlackBerry.
The successful candidate will have exceptional technical and problem solving skills, with a positive, results driven attitude.
Key Responsibilities / Duties:
• Task management, allocation and delivery
• Technical leadership
• Review product specifications in order to give development estimates and product feedback
• Innovative technical design and creative of technical specifications
• Software creation, adhering to and feeding back into departmental standards and guidelines
Key Working Relationships:
• This position involves working with and been part of a cross-skilled development team, and will have regular contact with teams looking after other aspects of Betfair products & tools.
Person Specification
Experience & Qualifications Required:
Essential:
• Proven track record of leading and managing development teams on complex software projects
• Experience of using agile methods for software delivery
• Commercial development experience (whole life-cycle) in an enterprise environment
• Experience developing distributed, redundant and transactional systems
• Experience in Object Oriented Design
• Proven commercial development experience using Java Enterprise
• Experience with aspect oriented programming (AOP)
• Experience with unit testing/mocking frameworks e.g. JUnit, Easy/JMock,
• Experience with build tools e.g. Maven2
• Experience with web and application servers
• Experience using source code control (Perforce, Subversion, ClearCase) in multi-branch environments
• Experience using defect tracking systems (JIRA, TestTrack, PVCS, Bugzilla)
Desirable:
• Understanding of UML
• Experience with REST, Web Services(SOAP), Spring
• Experience with Web/Application Servers: JBoss, Tomcat
• Experience with Oracle or SQL Server databases
• Exposure to non-Microsoft operating systems
• Two additional programming languages
• Knowledge of the gaming, betting industry or derivatives trading
• Previous exprience in the smartphone application development(iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile)
• Must have an understanding of new mobile technologies.
Attributes:
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or appropriate postgraduate qualification)
• Capable of working without supervision to required deadlines
• Self motivating, able to lead and motivate others
• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills, particularly with regard to technical risks, issues and constraints
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Team player, who strives to maximize team and departmental performance
• Passion & flexibility to work the hours required to see projects to completion in a timely, accurate & efficient manner.
• Self motivating.
• Proven ability & desire to innovate.
• Strong analytical skills.
Betfair is a global online betting and gaming company operating a number of world-leading products offered through multiple channels and across several continents. Our continued business success and growth demand a lot from our technology, including transaction volumes that surpass many of the world’s leading financial institutions.
Betfair is major investor in new technology and employs over 400 engineers to produce one of the fastest and most resilient betting platforms available on the internet. Across all its products, Betfair processes more than 5 million transactions on an average day - more than all the European stock exchanges combined - and settlement is immediate. 99.9 per cent of transactions are completed in less than one second.
The Development Center in Cluj-Napoca, Romania is currently organized into 5 large technical teams plus the operational side of the business. The technologies we use are Java, .Net, Oracle, agile project management methodologies and SCRUM.
The rewards for joining BETFAIR Romania are excellent. They include a competitive remuneration and benefits package alongside a professional and socially-minded working environment.
Betfair has won many awards, including the Computer Weekly “Best Places to Work in IT” award on two occasions and it received Best Companies Accreditation for the “The best companies to work for in the UK”.
We are always looking for brilliant people to join our successful business!
