Software Developer, CashOut

At bet365, we're one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 9,000 people and serve over 100 million customers in 27 languages. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe, we handle over 6 billion HTTP requests daily and process more than 2 million bets per hour at peak.

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of opportunities for growth, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we're breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what's possible for our customers worldwide.

Job Description

As a Software Developer, you will work alongside a talented team of developers to build, enhance, and maintain our CashOut platform.

CashOut is a critical system which enables customers to settle bets early, offering real-time prices, both pre-game and in-play. This is one of the largest distributed applications within the Business, handling millions of concurrent transactions, with ingest rates exceeding 50k messages per second.

We are currently undertaking the rollout and continued development of a new Cashout platform written in Go. This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology, solve complex technical problems, and shape the future of our critical services.

You will be an experienced developer, familiar with high-performance distributed systems and real-time data processing. While Go will be your primary language, the transition from Erlang applications will offer a unique opportunity to explore functional programming and expand your technical skillset.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company's hybrid working from home policy.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go 1.22+ with modern toolchain.
• Strong understanding of concurrent programming, goroutines and channels.
• Experience with microservice architectures.
• Extensive experience with distributed system concepts, such as load balancing, consistent hashing, partitioning, and fault tolerance.
• Familiar with feed processing and event driven architectures using messaging systems, such as Kafka.
• Knowledge of caching strategies and in-memory data structures with an appreciation of load testing and performance benchmarking.
• Familiarity with logging frameworks, structured logging, and monitoring approaches using platforms such as ELK, Grafana, and New Relic.
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD, Linux system administration, and shell scripting.
• NoSQL distributed database knowledge.
• Functional programming experience with either Erlang or Haskell.

Additional Information

• Developing and maintaining components across the Cashout services platform.
• Developing code in Go, focusing on performance and reliability.
• Designing fault tolerant services with low latency requirements.
• Implementing product features and working collaboratively across teams within Sports Platform.
• Participating in planning, estimating and reviewing code, and technical discussions.
• Monitoring and optimising system performance.
• Supporting system maintenance and monitoring during high volume sporting events.
• Debugging and troubleshooting productions issues.
• Collaborating on architecture and technical decisions.

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