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Position purpose:
We are looking for a dedicated, self-motivated, driven technical professional to work in a team of database engineers building highly scaleable database systems to support a highly transactional, high availability, website and associated products & tools.
Betfair is the world’s leading person-to-person betting exchange, using a concept which is revolutionising the betting industry.
The successful candidate will have exceptional technical and problem solving skills, with a positive, results driven attitude.
Key Responsibilities / Duties:
• Advanced SQL and PL/SQL Development.
• Creation of high performance SQL as well as PL/SQL and in-depth tuning of both.
• Review product specifications in order to give development estimates.
• Physical database design.
• Engineer feature and performance improvements, adhering to and feeding back into departmental standards and guidelines.
• Innovative technical design and creation of technical specifications.
• Thorough, demonstrable unit testing.
• Code reviews, by and for peers.
• Technical documentation that shares knowledge effectively.
Person Specification
Experience & Qualifications Required:
• Minimum 3 years as a software engineer
• 3+ years PL/SQL (preferred)
• 3+ years working in highly transactional ecommerce companies (preferred)
• 3+ years experience of working with OLTP systems (preferred)
• Experience of database performance analysis and design
• Expert in set based SQL as well as procedural PL/SQL
• Oracle 9i, 10g features
• Source code control (SourceSafe, CVS, Perforce …)
• Bug tracking systems (PVCS, TestTrack … )
Desirable:
• Knowledge of performance monitoring using in-depth Oracle features
• Oracle instance tuning
• Understanding of finance / transactional / gaming systems.
• Experience with JDBC
Key Skills and Attributes:
• Passion & flexibility to work the hours required to see projects to completion in a timely, accurate & efficient manner.
• Self motivating.
• Attention to detail with a high degree of pride in work produced.
• Proven ability & desire to innovate.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Demonstrable understanding of the entire software design, development and deployment lifecycle.
• Enthusiasm for the software development process.
• Ability to integrate well with a strong technical team.
• Good English language 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!
