Senior Platform Developer - Safer Gambling

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Tombola

Senior Platform Developer - Safer Gambling

Competitive salary

Sunderland

Hybrid

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Description

Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
What does a Senior Platform Developer do at Tombola?
As a Senior Platform Developer, you’ll play a key role in shaping the technical direction of the team. You’ll bring experience and opinions to the table, contribute to planning in line with our roadmap, and help guide the development of scalable, high-performance solutions in a newly-formed team.
You will be involved in the technical direction of the team and involved in planning and delivering in-line with our roadmap.
A key part of the role is to make sure that our products and solutions maintain a great player experience. Taking into consideration user experience, accessibility, building a platform to help our teams build our websites.
What will you be doing?
Working on our large re-platforming project migrating from legacy .NET MVC to .NET Core
Proposing guidance and patterns to help build good products. You will be involved in making decisions of which tooling and frameworks we use.
Interacting with .NET Framework MVC code and migrating it to .NET Core.
Building out documentation to help other developers when making changes.
Advocating use of modern patterns and practices.
Working through the lifecycle of key technical projects from inception to deployment.
Contribute to the planning of technical projects and review software design and implementations, promoting an environment of continuous improvement. And pragmatism.
Engage actively in designing and developing intricate technical solutions.
Develop clean, efficient, and well-documented software solutions. Conduct code reviews, performance optimizations, and quality assurance testing to ensure software reliability and scalability.
Ensuring your own professional growth and continuous improvement through personal learning time
Experience:
Excellent knowledge of .NET Framework MVC and .NET Core.
An understanding and some experience of implementing front-end applications.
Proven experience in building scalable, reliable and secure web applications using modern techniques.
Estimating complex technical stories and breaking them down .
Git knowledge particularly around release branches and git tags.
Prior experience developing solutions and integrating with legacy systems.
Pragmatic and able to adapt working in a fast-paced environment.
Experience with AWS or cloud native tech and event driven architecture.
Bonus experience:
Understanding of working in regulated space.
Demonstrates a strong appreciation for player safety and responsible gaming principles, embedding them into technical decisions and feature development.
Understands the importance of building systems that support regulatory compliance, transparency, and harm prevention.
Champions a “safeplay” mindset by considering the impact of new features on player wellbeing and advocating for safeguards where appropriate.
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines.
What do we offer?
We champion a culture of inclusivity, flexibility, personal development, and mental wellbeing!
As well as a salary that will be more than agreeable for you, we offer market leading benefits such as quarterly bonus, tombola merch, free breakfast and lunches in the office, private healthcare, hybrid working and much more.We champion a culture of inclusivity, flexibility, personal development, and mental wellbeing!
As well as a salary that will be more than agreeable for you, we offer market leading benefits such as quarterly bonus, tombola merch, free breakfast and lunches in the office, private healthcare, hybrid working and much more.

Culture overview

We’re ambitious, we’re growing quickly and we’re looking for awesome people to join our already awesome team. #tombolalife is a lot of fun - we take pride in what we do, we work hard and we work together. We’re excited about the future and the team that will make an impact.

Employee benefits

Bonus Scheme
Cycle To Work
Flexible Working
Free Food
Free Parking
Gym Membership
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Life Insurance
Pension
Private Healthcare

Office vibe

City Centre
Friday Drinks
Hackathons
Open Plan
Social Events

Location

Leadership

James Conway
Director of Technology

Tech overview

Tombola is one of the rare gaming operators with a fully cloud-native stack, running on AWS to deliver “infinite” scalability and cutting-edge performance across multiple European territories. At Tombola, we're not just another player in the game; we're the creators of the game. Our approach is revolutionary – we craft every element of our software in-house, from concept to execution. We take pride in the ingenuity of our developers and designers, united by their passion for pushing boundaries and shaping the future.

Engineering principles

Agile Process
Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Continuous delivery
Continuous Development
Continuous integration
Knowledge sharing
Mentoring
Micro services
Pair programming
Rapid release cycles
Test Driven Development
Unit testing

Company tech stack

java
Java
nodejs
Node.js
ios
iOS
aws
AWS
windows
Windows
linux
Linux
vue.js
Vue.Js
bash
Bash
javascript
JavaScript
html5
HTML5
csharp
C#
powershell
PowerShell
asp-net
ASP.Net
typescript
TypeScript
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