About 888 Spectate
Ireland based only. 888 Spectate is part of the 888 | William Hill Group, a global leader in both the retail and online gaming industry for over 80 years. Listed on the London Stock Exchange since 2005, 888 | William Hill offers an innovative and world-class experience in online games including casino, poker, and sports betting.
Our Mission
In Dublin, Spectate is developing the next generation of 888 | William Hill’s sports betting platform. Through innovation we aspire to give our customers the most compelling, entertaining, and unique gaming experience possible. We are bringing the very best in e-Commerce practices to the sportsbook sector.
Vacancy: Senior Python Software Developer
We are looking for a Senior Python Software Developer to join our development team. The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills with a focus on quality, performance, extensibility, and maintainability of code within an agile software development environment. A dynamic, skilful and enthusiastic person, who takes ownership for their work, is committed to building high quality, extensible code and who has experience working within an agile software development team is the ideal.
Key Responsibilities
- To design and develop code with performance optimisation, extensibility and maintainability in mind
- Own and drive development tasks that you are involved in, participating and supporting your agile development SCRUM team
- Functionally testing all developed code to a very high standard to enable QA to test efficiently ensuring non-functional requirements such as scalability, performance, monitoring, maintenance, security, and usability
- Respond urgently to operational issues, own resolution within their sphere of responsibility, and identify and address technical debt
- Take the lead role in developing solutions for substantial features
- Limiting cross-team dependencies and design/API issues
Essential Requirements
- Demonstrable experience with Python, MySQL & Linux
- Solid experience developing with Python
- Experience in version control systems, ideally Git
- Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced development schedule
- Strong communication skills and fluency in verbal and written English are essential
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar
Desirable
- Experience/understanding of working in an Agile environment
- Experience with asynchronous networking library such as Twisted or Tornado
- Redis or other modern non-relational data storage systems
- Especially unit testing, test-driven development and behaviour-driven development
- Modern Python web frameworks. e.g. Flask, Django and Python ORM e.g. storm, sqlalchemy