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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:
• Review product specifications in order to give development estimates and product feedback.
• Innovative technical design and creative of technical specifications.
• Thorough, demonstrable unit testing.
• Code reviews, by and for peers.
• Software creation, adhering to and feeding back into departmental standards and guidelines.
• Technical documentation that shares knowledge effectively.
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 commercial development experience using Java Enterprise
• Understanding of and experience with application architectures (service oriented, client/server, web, database).
• 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
• At least 3 years experience.
Desirable:
• 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.
• Working experience with mobile platforms (iPhone, Android)
• Understanding of the full development cycle and some experience of Agile development methodologies and supporting tools e.g. JIRA, Confluence
Attributes:
• 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!
