Java Lead Engineer - FanDuel

The role:

• Provides technical leadership and mentorship to the Engineering Team.
• Sets technical direction and drives best practices in SDLC.
• Core skills a must in Java, spring, and microservices
• Quants / Statistical background and / or experience a bonus

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Technical Leadership:

• Identify and evaluate potential solution options;
• Provide guidance and ensure adherence to agreed Engineering standards;
• Provide technical leadership in terms of design and adoption of solution architectures, coding expertise, governance best practices and subject matter expertise;
• Collaborate with architects to produce technical roadmaps and ensure alignment to broader technical strategy;
• Gather and consider relevant cross-domain constraints, conventions & opportunities;
• Identify assumptions applicable to the scope of potential solutions;
• Seek to eliminate technical, operational & non-functional risks by design opportunities;
• Define standards & methods fit for the technology involved in a solution;
• Guidance of strategic platform health and hygiene;
• Be an active member of the RTP Engineering Leads Group, championing decisions and standard from the Group.

Project & Operational Delivery

• Support Teams / Engineers to develop software solutions to solve business problems;
• Lead and upskill the team on technical analysis, design & delivery;
• Ensuring viable software designs are conceived, proven, shared and delivered;
• Owning technology & tooling for effective and innovative product development;
• Defining reference implementations, tooling & infrastructure in a domain;
• Continuously lifting quality of estimates, solutions, products, tools & technical IP;
• Ensure Engineers are adhering practices and standards through governance.

2. Culture Leadership

• Role model Sportsbet's values to the team and colleagues.
• Support change by understanding & preparing for the impact of a change.
• Drives continuous improvement of technology, patterns and quality.

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

Behavioural Competencies

• Tolerant mentor; nurturing approach toward other technical staff;
• Attention to detail; diligent with analysis;
• Critical thinking; methodical and logical problem solving approach;
• Curious, open minded and keen to learn;
• Collaborative with colleagues;
• Decisive and willing to take responsibility as required;
• Collaborative and inclusive, able to build and maintain good working relationships;
• Passionate & vocal about technology & software design;
• High levels of ownership and relentless will to improve;
• Desire to challenge the status quo.

Technical Competencies

• Excellent knowledge of Java, it's patterns and practices;
• Experience in major java frameworks such as spring boot, hibernate, etc;
• Experience using real time streaming (Kafka, Kinesis);
• Experience in Messaging frameworks tools (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, etc);
• Experience in basic AWS concepts and services such as VPC, EC2, ECS, Cloud formation, RDS, cloud watch, etc;
• Solid understanding of software testing methodologies and techniques;
• Experience in Unit/Integration testing and tools such as spock, junit etc;
• Experience in relational database as well as non-SQL database;
• Experience in continuous integration/continuous delivery and the tools (Docker, Jenkins, Ansible etc);
• Experience with agile SDLC methodologies, high-level estimation & modeling;
• Exposure to classic & modern software development and delivery techniques;
• Fast paced agile & DevOps based environment;
• Experience in design and develop highly available, scalable, and reliable AWS based systems;
• Experience in design and develop microservice based and event-driven applications;
• A clear understanding of systems analysis, component based system design and modern software development principles.
• Consulting and presenting information to different audiences.

Key experience & qualifications

• Experience developing and supporting scalable and performance-critical software written in Java;
• 7+ years java programming experience;
• Demonstrated ability to drive design and delivery of complex technical solutions;
• Demonstrated experience leading and influencing Software Engineers;
• Computer Science degree or equivalent experience.

What you can expect:

• 25 days of annual leave;
• Sharesave scheme;
• „Flexible Benefits” of your choice;
• Private health insurance (includes dental insurance and health assessments);
• Free parking;
• Thousands of courses online through ‘Udemy'.

Ways of working:

Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them;

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