Overview

The Role

Work as part of a cross-functional team following agile practices to deliver web solutions to support Gamesys’ growth. You will be encouraged to form strong relationships with your team and with other teams in the Player Services area. Your team will be supported by a product owner, technical architects and the project delivery team. You will be expected to follow best software practices including testing, test automation, code reviews, refactoring and pairing. An enthusiasm for learning new skills and helping us to improve working practices is desirable.

Responsibilities:

  • Deliver new applications and enhance existing websites.
  • Follow responsive design principles to ensure that websites support multiple devices and multiple browsers covering desktop and mobile.
  • Support your team to meet sprint commitments.
  • Ensure that impediments of any kind are escalated and long term solutions pursued.
  • Delivery high quality well tested software that meets agreed requirements.
  • Promote best software development practices.
  • Collaborate.
  • Support and promote agile practices including Scrum and Kanban.

Key Skills:

  • Good experience of creating web sites using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3. You may be more specialised in one of these areas.
  • Exposure to JavaScript libraries or frameworks: ideally React, but we would look at people who have used Angular, Backbone and jQuery.
  • Exposure to Node and Grunt
  • Understand the principles of scalable and maintainable object-oriented JavaScript code.
  • Solid understanding of software engineering.
  • Experience writing tests, automating these and adopting TDD desirable.
  • Team working experience.
  • Exposure to Java development or Java web frameworks or a desire to learn these is nice to have.

 

Player Services

Player Services provides the central services leveraged by the rest of the company to help deliver our award winning games and legendary customer service.  Player Services is at an exciting point in its development, using frameworks such as React and NodeJS to deliver mobile-first, responsively designed websites and tools such as Apigee to create a series of versioned API’s to deliver services such as Payment Processing, real-time in-game offer generation and real-time fraud detection. In these areas we are using modern technologies like Cassandra, Neo4J, Hazelcast and Docker to deliver those services in some innovative ways.

We have great teams of enthusiastic and talented developers, developers in test and QA engineers and want more people like them. We’ll do our best to get out of your way so that you can get on with your job while providing encouragement, coaching and an Agile support team of Product Owners, Project Managers and Development Managers. If the following things excite you then so will working with us – mobile gaming, multi-device, web technologies, high-availability/scalability, micro-services, restful APIs and smart talented people.

About Gamesys

We are on a mission to become the world’s most entertaining online gaming company. It all started with Jackpotjoy but along the way we have grown into the award-winning team of designers, developers and operators behind some of the leading gaming sites and apps including Virgin Games and Caesar’s Casino. But, we haven’t stopped there... we’re also behind Bingo Lane, Jackpotjoy Slots and other great free-to-play games.

Born in 2001 with just a handful of developers, we are now over 900 employees strong across 7 group offices worldwide with our headquarters in Central London.  Over 24 million players enjoy our 258 games, generating on average 6,028 chat messages every 15 minutes!

Whether it be through the awards we've won for innovation in Bingo and Slots, our commitment to using cutting edge technology, or simply our passion to innovate, thrill, and surprise, Gamesys constantly pushes the boundaries to be the best in class.

Our culture is visible everywhere. Visit our reception - you’ll find sweets and a giant monkey, in the design team a giant red lamp and the latest quad core mac pros; the breakout areas a Gamesys pool table and fridges full of beer, wine and soft drinks. In the meeting rooms you might find grass instead of carpet, in the summer you’ll meet all our families together for a celebration and in the winter you can find Mexican wrestlers or circus acts roaming around. Weekly social and sports events give you the opportunity to stretch both your mind and body, whether it be getting involved in a meetup or brownbag session, playing in the poker tournament or joining one of the many sports teams. But our culture is not just in what you can see it's in everything we do, we're hard workers and we get stuck in.

We have fun, making fun and our vision is to invent, play and discover together, to craft experiences that thrill our players and rock the world.