Full Stack Developer (Node.js)

About Grand Parade

Grand Parade is a major Technology Hub and part of William Hill, a trusted brand with global recognition in the sports betting and gaming market. Our mission is to provide the entire world with the most exciting betting and gambling experience by creating solutions which matter with technology that rocks!

Position

Working with us you’ll be at heart of the technological revolution of one the world’s most trusted betting and gaming companies. We deal with projects ranging from widgets, desktop or mobile casinos and betting sites just to name a few. We process 500 online Sportsbook bets per second each Saturday, that’s the same as orders processed by Amazon UK, on its busiest day of the year. We deal with more than 20 million users and 160 terabytes of data daily. Impressed? You can be sure there are many more challenges waiting for you.

Your role in the team

• Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code.
• Ensuring designs are in compliance with specifications.
• Preparing and producing releases of software components.
• Supporting continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
• Planning scrum sprints with PO, Architect, Team Lead
• Providing accurate estimations on both front-end and back-end t
• Taking responsibility for the product and your contributions to it. Reviewing code and providing constructive feedback
• Lookout for strategies on migrating existing AngularJs application into a newer framework applying best practices and patterns
• Collaboration with QA to ensure tests are aligned with the solution and complement tests written by development
• Contributing to CI & release pipeline
• Organizing & executing releases
• Supporting production environment for products and services delivered by the team during office hours

Your qualification

• Good knowledge of Node.js and JavaScript programming (min. 2 years)
• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.
• Excellent knowledge of REST APIs and integration patterns with 3rd party services
• Experience with logging tools like Splunk
• Experience with CI/CD, deployment pipeline
• Experience with distributed version-control system like Git
• Good English skills (written and spoken)

Will be a plus

Desirable skills
Experience in working with CSS and some preprocessor (LESS, SASS)
Basic knowledge of SQL databases such as SQL Server
Proven working experience in modern web development using at least one of the following technologies: React, Angular (or AngularJs) and VueJs
Basic understanding of AWS / Cloud technologies
Experience working in a DevOps culture

What we offer

• Development opportunities, including IT conferences, internal training, lunch and learn sessions and an individual development budget.
• Complex work and the chance to make an impact.
• Mac OS or Windows hardware to choose from.
• Some opportunities for International travel to our offices in London, Leeds, Stockholm, Malta and Gibraltar (our office is 5 minutes away from the beach).
• New modern, bright and comfortable office space, with a great working atmosphere, in a collaborative team of amazing people, with forward thinking managers.
• Competitive base salary and benefits, with fully paid private healthcare (Luxmed), filly paid Multisport pass, employee referral program, and an extra day off for your birthday.
• Garden roof terrace, with incredible views of the city, and fresh fruit in the office.
• Well stocked kitchens with fruit tea, honey and lemon, foamy coffee machine, vending machine with healthy food and salad.
• Chill out room and gaming room with VR, PS4, FIFA, foosball table, billiards, table tennis, football league, board games, competitions with cool prizes.
• Meetups, quality questions events, hackathons, we love any chance to share knowledge and have fun.
• We don’t like our colleagues to go hungry or thirsty, so events are always well catered.
• Family fun days, charity events (ask us about our scooter racing), company parties and social activities.
• Flexible working practices
• Excellent city centre location with a tram stop right outside the office, and free parking spaces cars, motorcycles and bikes.
• Relocation costs support for rent and travel, and VISA support. Colleagues from all round the world including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Brazil, Romania, Ireland, Israel, India, Portugal, United Kingdom, and Libya.