About us!

Sportsbet's purpose is to bring excitement to life for its customers and we do this by over delivering on excitement through serious fun, disrupting the status quo and living our values. We’re a flexible, progressive, open-minded, and inclusive employer with over 7000 cool, clever and curious people around the world. We’re a global player, but in Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin we’re tight knit, with 1000 of us bringing excitement to life every day.

Our commitment to responsible gambling is genuine and demonstrated through the wide range of responsible gambling initiatives and tools – take a look: https://responsiblegambling.sportsbet.com.au/hc/en-us 

About the role

Here at Sportsbet we need developers who can take ownership of problems in Java, Node, cloud infrastructure, domain modelling and event driven architecture and work together with their awesome and dedicated team to solve them, deliver solutions and then test, monitor and maintain their operation and performance. Sportsbet's problem space and it's user base is huge and our engineers are responsible for all of it, end to end. Expect your code to get smashed, attacked, misused, scraped, overloaded, throwalerts and fail in interesting ways. Be ready to fight for improvement, make compromises and celebrate your glorious victories! In base line terms:

• Designing, coding, testing and packaging discrete software components
• Developing valuable functional outcomes in line with best practice
• Modifying & troubleshooting existing and new software components
• Leveraging the technology, platforms, frameworks, standards & methods supported in Sportsbet
• Agreeing interfaces for data creation, extraction, transport and transformation
• Preparing & maintaining technical documentation (e.g. MRPs, solution design documents)
• Liaising with services software engineers for technical requirements and architectural considerations

About You

We’re looking for highly motivated individual, passionate, with excellent stakeholder engagement who will be empowered to innovate, coordinate and collaborate across the entire services community at Sportsbet. Join us and develop solutions to a wide variety of interesting and challenging engineering problems, guaranteeing the health of Sportsbet’s most valuable customer platforms.

Key skills needed include:

• In-depth application development knowledge in Java 8+, NodeJS 6+ and accompanying frameworks
• Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, developing highly scalable applications and application security
• Experience in containerization (e.g. Docker) and modern architecture patterns (e.g. microservices, reactive architecture, event-driven architecture)
• Commercial experience in AWS (EC2, RDS, Load Balancing etc), building large catalogues of micro-services

The Perks

We don’t expect you to do all this for free, so along with a very competitive salary we will also provide you with:

• 25 days annual leave (a whole extra week of holidays)
• Tailored career development programs, as well as a commitment to developing Thought Leader and Specialist Talent programs
• Genuine flexible working and remote working policy
• Discounted gym memberships, free breakfast and loads of event and conference tickets and many more
• Best in class Parental Leave program with six months paid leave for Primary Carers

Sportsbet is committed to ensuring we create employment opportunities that suit your lifestyle. We’re open to discussing how this role might be performed in a part-time basis

We’re a flexible, progressive, open-minded, and inclusive employer who welcomes you for who you are, as you are.

If this all sounds good, then we can’t wait to connect with you… so please apply now!

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