Senior Software Engineer (Java) - Flutter Functions, Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer (Java) - Flutter Functions, Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer 2

About Betfair Romania Development​:

Betfair Romania Development is the largest technology hub of Flutter Entertainment, with over 2,000 people powering the world’s leading sports betting and iGaming brands. Exciting, immersive and safe experiences are delivered to over 18 million customers worldwide, from our office in Cluj-Napoca. Driven by relentless innovation and commitment to excellence, we operate our own unbeatable portfolio of diverse proprietary brands such as FanDuel, PokerStars, SportsBet, Betfair, Paddy Power, or Sky Betting & Gaming.

Our Values:

The values we share at Betfair Romania Development define what makes us unique as a team. They empower us by giving meaning to our contributions, and they ensure that we consistently strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for passionate individuals who align with our values and are committed to making a difference.

Win together | Raise the bar | Got your back | Own it | Positive impact

About Flutter Functions

The Flutter Functions division is a key component of Flutter Entertainment, responsible for providing essential support and services across the organization. The division encompasses various corporate functions, including finance, legal, human resources, technology, and more, ensuring seamless operations and strategic alignment throughout the company.

Role Overview:

You are enthusiastic, motivated and willing to make your mark. You have engineering skills and a passion for technology. You have extensive experience with technologies such as Java, http, event streaming (Kafka) and build tools (e.g. Maven). You have used dependency injection and inversion of control in previous projects.

Our senior engineers lead us to offer world class experiences to our customers. They are the technical leaders of our teams and drive the solutions and architecture of our systems. We encourage then to get involved in the business aspects of the products we deliver.

The systems we develop and maintain are serving millions of users. Our technology supports the continuous growth of our business, so we must deliver outstanding quality and performance. You need to have exceptional technical and problem-solving skills and a pragmatic, leadership attitude to thrive in this role.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain software solutions in accordance with open source & co-creation models

• Ensure adherence to community standards and collaborative development practices.

• Have good knowledge of secure coding and ensure adherence to good coding practices

• Understand the dependencies between components and how they combine to deliver service to the consumer and business

• Easily recognise system deficiencies and implement effective solutions

• Suggest alternative methodologies that may be more efficient and actively improve the tooling used

• Be able to identify common concerns to encourage code reuse

• Be familiar with multiple software development methodologies and actively contribute to team and group meetings

• Minimise manual processes and provide automated solutions

Software development, continuous improvement and QA for developers:

• Be able to guide the team on the best approach to large pieces of work which span multiple components and teams

• Tackle tasks by researching and weighing up the pros and cons of various routes to select the right approach

• Be an expert in your primary programming language, and be competent in others

• Implement robust solutions that work across multiple channels, platforms and browsers

• Evaluate the impact of changes and guide improvements to your function, area or product

• Use your experience to lead reviews of changes

• Actively generate several alternative solutions to problems

• Periodically review stats and adjust system capabilities accordingly

• Identify areas of technical risk across the department and communicate it to the relevant delivery managers and architects

• Drive QA best practice across multiple components and projects, to ensure that changes do not happen unwantedly

• Align development tasks with business priorities, effectively communicating delivery timelines and proactively managing expectations to ensure successful project delivery.

Architecture for developers:

• Be a business and tech expert who can guide the te