Software Engineer - Frontend Developer

About Kindred Group

Kindred is one of the largest online gambling companies in the world with over 20 million customers across 100 markets. The company was founded in 1997 by Anders Ström and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm in 2004. Kindred is committed to offering our customers the best deal and user experience possible, while ensuring a safe and fair gambling environment.

We offer pre-game and live Sports betting, Poker, Casino and Games across our markets. While our core markets are in Europe and Australia, we address most global markets.

Kindred is a pioneer in the online gambling industry and as an innovation driven company that builds on trust, we have led the development into areas such as technological advancements, mobile solutions, new product launches, as well as player safety and responsible gambling improvements.

Position

You will be joining a team of talented software engineers working on Frontend and Backend technologies that have a strong focus on customer centricity. You will be expected to drive the front-end work within the team by applying your knowledge and skills in both greenfield and ongoing projects in an Agile environment that will enable Kindred Group to provide delightful betting experiences to our valuable customers.

Kindred Group believes in the growth and empowerment of our people. We promote an open and proactive culture where our developers and testers are encouraged to learn and contribute in ways outside the usual development work. This can include areas such as participating in different development focus groups, conferences, public speaking, and leadership among others.

Kindred believes in delivering innovative and high quality software where the whole team is responsible for ensuring these values are maintained.

This role is perfect for an energetic JavaScript developer who like a challenge and learn new things and wants to gain more experience building web applications with React and Redux

Key accountabilities of this role are: 

• Working closely with Product Owner, Agile Lead and team members to collaborate and influence new development
• Developing and evolving the front-end integrating backend based on RESTful architecture
• Ensuring performance and quality of all deliveries across different platforms
• Sharing knowledge and best practices within the organization

Your qualification

• Commercial experience as a Front End developer
• Good experience with JavaScript
• Knowledge of React and a controller framework (Redux, Flux...)
• Knowledge of CSS is important and beneficial if you has experience with HTML5 and SASS
• Experience with JavaScript testing, Good appreciation for TDD/BDD
• Ensuring performance and quality of all deliveries across different platforms
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Experience integrating APIs, working with micro-services would be very beneficial, but knowledge of asynchronous JavaScript is very important (promises and AJAX requests)

Will be a plus

Experience in ES6/7