Senior Full Stack Developer (Sportsbook)
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Senior Full Stack Developer (Sportsbook)
Grand Parade part of William Hill
Kraków
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Senior
Employment Type
Permanent
Operating mode
Office
Tech stack
React
Redux
Node.js
TCP
HTTP
HTTPS
HTTP2
Job description
ABOUT GRAND PARADE
WHO WE ARE?
Grand Parade is a part of William Hill Group – a leading global betting company. We are top Cracow-based Polish-British software development company specializing in building advanced systems for the online sports betting industry in Europe, USA and Australia with more than 170 software engineers on board.
WHAT WE DO?
We are renowned for intelligently designed high-tech products. We are experienced in planning and implementing successful user journeys through various online experiences great and small, and across a variety of platforms, from huge commercial websites to small and targeted apps.
AFTER HOURS
In addition to the standard chill-out room with PS4, you can always take a sit on sun lounger in the garden on the roof and wind down looking Krakow beautiful panorama or grab pizza after work.
We also regularly organize Grand Parade Betting League, in which we are predicting football scores to get extra prizes. In Gamification you can have fun with tasks during and after working hours. We take care of improving our skills by organizing internal trainings, open meetups, conferences and workshops. Not to mention about Multisport and Enel-med, obviously it is a must-have.
Your role in the team
- Supporting the Site Reliability Team with expert knowledge of large scale Web and Node.js experience
- Observing our highly scalable, high load web applications running containerised Node.js applications in production, measuring every aspect of its performance, availability, latency, efficiency to spot hot spots and possible future issues
- Assisting with change management, capacity planning and emergency response as an expert of the runtime environment and application behaviour
- Giving input and contributing to monitoring requirements and implementation
Skills needed
- 5+ years of full stack development experience, strong interest in problem solving, strong analytical skills
- Web development: Browsers’ rendering pipeline, browser performance, React, Redux
- Node.js: Understand event loop, garbage collection, memory usage, security
- Basic Network knowledge: TCP, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP2
- Distributed computing: Load balancing, Caching, CAP theorem
- Experience with managing high load performance applications: monitoring on all layers from CPU to application metrics
- Nice to have: experience with Splunk, CA APM
What we offer
- Development opportunities, including IT conferences, internal training, lunch and learn sessions and an individual development budget.
- Complex work and the chance to make an impact.
- Mac OS or Windows hardware to choose from.
- Some opportunities for International travel to our offices in London, Leeds and Gibraltar (our office is 5 minutes away from the beach).
- A great working atmosphere in a collaborative team of amazing people, with forward thinking managers.
- Competitive salary and benefits fully paid private healthcare, multisport pass, daily fruit, and employee referral program.
- Flexible working practices
- And some fun in the office – integration events and company parties, internal football league, gamification initiatives, FIFA, board games, company competitions with cool prizes.
William Hill in Cracow
Our office sits on Kotlarska and our brilliant building has a range of different workspaces, hangouts and breakout areas to suit your every need. Situated in the centre of Krakow next to Vistula river – we're in the heart of one of the world’s most iconic cities.There are parks everywhere, you can enjoy a walk along Planty, or go to Kościuszko Mound to admire the city from above. With plenty of culture on your doorstep, you’ll be spoilt for choice. In fact, why not have a sneak peek around our office with Street View and see if you can picture yourself