Kindred Group is a digital entertainment pioneer bringing together nine successful online gambling brands, forming one of the largest online gambling groups in the world. Our purpose is to transform gambling by being a trusted source of entertainment that contributes positively to society. Our goal is that 0% revenue is derived from harmful gambling.
Our global team of more than 2000 people represents 70+ nationalities. When you join Kindred, you'll be part of a collaborative, diverse and inclusive team that has your best interest at heart. We are a trusting company that knows the value of a healthy work-life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits, along with annual bonus, which is tied to both company and your individual performance.
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Backend Java Developer. The ideal candidate should have experience working with microservices architecture and be able to develop and maintain high-performance backend systems.
As a Senior Java Software Engineer you will be part of a cross-functional agile team of talented Engineers and Delivery Specialists (typically 6-10 people) working together to build microservices for the Kindred Group platform. Your expertise lies within Java development but there could be opportunity for frontend development if that's also something you enjoy doing. We believe that you will be eager to take ownership and develop services and components within Gaming, one of our key areas.
You will participate in design discussions with your colleagues to find great solutions to complex engineering challenges. We strongly believe in the “You Design it, You Build It, You Test It, You Run It, You Tweak It” ethos and everyone is expected to take part of the full system life cycle to ensure reliability and uptime of the production environment.
· You will be working in a team passionate about sharing our culture and values.
· You will be developing scalable backend systems that can handle high traffic loads in a complex eco system of micro services.
· Work in a cross-functional team that owns, develop and deliver
· Work with the latest tech stack
Essential hands-on experience is required in the tech stack listed below. Note: Good experience and understanding in any similar technology will be considered.
· Java & Spring Boot
· Persistence layer
o Transactions management
o Oracle, Couchbase (or similar e.g. MongoDB)
o JPA / Hibernate
· Event driven architecture
o JMS / Spring Cloud Streams
o Solace / Kafka (or similar e.g. RabbitMQ)
· Platform
o Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
· Logs & metrics
· Splunk, InfluxDB, Grafana
· Are a positive person by nature and have a passion for what you do, putting teamwork and collaboration above all else.
· Are passionate about solving challenging problems in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment
· Have solid experience working with 3rd party integrations and APIs
· Have great communication skills and appreciate a culture where feedback sharing is encouraged to achieve not only the success of the team, but also seen as essential to the improvement of personal and professional development.
· Take great pride in your ability to grasp complex business scenarios and translate them into solutions with clean and performant code.
Join us on this exciting journey, where you'll have the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge projects and expand your skills alongside a collaborative and dynamic team. Apply today and let your passion for Java Development take flight! 🚀.
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Our world is hybrid.
A career is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. One of the perks of joining us is that we value you as a person first. Our hybrid world allows you to focus on your goals and responsibilities and lets you self-organise to improve your deliveries and get the work done in your own way.
Click on the “Apply Now” button and complete the short web form. Please add your CV and covering letter in English to let us know your motivation for applying and your salary expectation. Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch soon. Kindred is an equal opportunities employer committed to employing a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. As such we oppose all forms of discrimination in the workplace. We create equal opportunities for all our applicants and will treat people equally regardless of and not limited to, gender, ages, disability, race, sexual orientation. We are committed not only to our legal obligations but also to the positive promotion that equal opportunities bring to our operations as set out in our sustainability framework. Kindred has an ESG rating of AAA by MCSI.