Software Engineer, Core Systems

Who we are looking for
Core Systems develop, enhance and support systems that are essential to the running of the bet365 website. Many of the systems process very high volumes of transactions, particularly around high profile sporting events. The resilience and stability of those systems is crucial to the uptime of functionality on our website.
Within Core Systems, all systems and services are housed on a Linux operating system and primarily built around open source technologies. Our drive to improve concurrency and fault tolerance mean services are either written in Go or Erlang. We are looking for people with experience in server side development who want to explore and learn new technologies.
The day to day work is interesting, challenging and fast paced amidst a hardworking and delivery focused company ethos. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technology's greatest challenges
This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company's hybrid working from home policy (3 days a week onsite, 2 days from home)
The salary range for this position is $85,000 - $120,000 annually.
Preferred skills and experience
Commercial experience of server-side development (services, systems, messaging, middleware). Linux Environment.
Multiple years of professional software development experience
Exposure to functional programming (such as Go, Erlang, Haskell, F#, Scala).
Experience of distributed systems.
Complex event process/continuous query languages.
Client/server development experience.
Ability to problem solve.
Good communication and team working skills.
Strong academic background, ideally with a BSc/MSc IT related degree or relevant industry experience.
Exposure to Google Cloud Platform beneficial.
Main Responsibilities
Developing low latency, highly available and scalable solutions that process high volumes of transactions.
Creating and maintaining concurrent distributed components.
Working on Linux and GNU utilities.
Supporting and enhancing the existing code base.
Identifying technical areas of improvement.
Contributing to solution proposals as required.
Creating work effort estimates.