Senior Software Engineeer at Sporting Solutions

Job description

The Background

Part of the Sporting Index Group, Sporting Solutions is a ground-breaking sports betting software and data services company. We have market leading skills in software delivery, data management, modelling, pricing and sports trading and work with a number of the world's leading betting operators including SkyBet, BetFred, William Hill and of course we power our own Sporting Index spread betting business. Our mission is to deliver exceptional infrastructure, software and data products that solve customer problems using the “right” technologies.

The Person

Our products are web based, deployed to both public and private clouds and are written primarily in C# (with some F# and python) but it contains a variety of open source technologies including MongoDB, Postgres, Redis and RabbitMQ. We’re focused on using the best tool for the job so we're looking for developers who are keen to learn, get exposure to a wide range of technologies, want to work on an industry leading platform, have a passion for writing quality and testable code, and enjoy working in a continuous delivery environment.

The Role

Playing a key part of our Cape Town team you can expect to:

• Develop and maintain software for managing a variety of trading activities (such as automated trading systems etc.) and across all tiers
• Develop requisite diagnostics and monitoring tools for early detection of system faults
• Develop software iteratively that works seamlessly in a continuous deployment environment; biased on TDD and BDD approaches
• Establish early and continuous feedback loops with stakeholders for high quality outcomes
• Work closely with Traders and 1st line support to troubleshoot customer issues
• Provide 3rd line application support when required
• Be an active member of the team suggesting ways we can learn and improve