Senior Python Software Developer

888spectate

Dublin Sandyford, Co Dublin
Permanent
Full-time

1 month ago

888 Spectate is part of the 888 | William Hill Group, a global leader in both the retail and online gaming industry for over 80 years. Listed on the London Stock Exchange since 2005, 888 | William Hill offers an innovative and world-class experience in online games including casino, poker, and sports betting.In Dublin, Spectate is developing the next generation of 888 | William Hill’s sports betting platform.Through innovation we aspire to give our customers the most compelling, entertaining, and unique gaming experience possible. We are bringing the very best in e-Commerce practices to the sportsbook sector.We are looking for a Senior Python Software Developer to join our development team. The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills with a focus on quality, performance, extensibility, and maintainability of code within an agile software development environment. A dynamic, skilful and enthusiastic person, who takes ownership for their work, is committed to building high quality, extensible code and who has experience working within an agile software development team is the ideal.Key Responsibilities

To design and develop code with performance optimisation, extensibility and maintainability in mind
Own and drive development tasks that you are involved in, participating and supporting your agile development SCRUM team
Functionally testing all developed code to a very high standard to enable QA to test efficiently ensuring non-functional requirements such as scalability, performance, monitoring, maintenance, security, and usability
Respond urgently to operational issues, own resolution within their sphere of responsibility, and identify and address technical debt
Take the lead role in developing solutions for substantial features
Limiting cross-team dependencies and design/API issues

Essential Requirements

Demonstrable experience with Python, MySQL & Linux
Solid experience developing with Python
Experience in version control systems, ideally Git
Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills
Ability to adapt to a fast-paced development schedule
Strong communication skills and fluency in verbal and written English are essential
Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar

Desirable

Experience/understanding of working in an Agile environment
Experience with asynchronous networking library such as Twisted or Tornado
Redis or other modern non-relational data storage systems
Especially unit testing, test-driven development and behaviour-driven development
Modern Python web frameworks. e.g. Flask, Django and Python ORM e.g. storm, sqlalchemy

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