Senior Java Engineer - Sportsbetting

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As a Senior Java Engineer you will work in a team of engineers, ensuring technical excellence and smooth delivery within a Scrum framework. You have the ability to mentor more junior team members, help enforce best practices, actively contribute to improving development processes. You will write code and help facilitate technical decisions to keep your team on track, and owned services healthy in production.

This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, ownership of technical excellence, and the ability to drive high-quality deliverables.

This role is a hybrid role where employees must be on-site 1-2 days per week. Candidates also must be willing to travel on-site to complete onboarding orientation as dictated by the hiring team.

Home Office:
Jersey City, NJ

• Directly contribute to team efforts by writing and reviewing impactful Java/Spring/Webflux code as well as code and config related to Kubernetes and Gitlab deployments.
• Develop, implement, and maintain best practices and standards that drive higher quality and operational excellence within your team.
• Perform quality control by ensuring effective code reviews and addressing technical debt alongside product development.
• Collaborate with Solutions Architects to create and review architectural documentation before team engagement.
• Be mindful of your team’s technical debt and advocate for time to address technical issues alongside product development.
• Collaborate with Product in planning activities, including sizing of work, identifying risks and dependencies.
• Ensure requirements are clear and well-defined. Ensure alignment with sprint goals/capacity.

• 5+ years of progressive experience as a software engineer, preferably within high-growth or real-time systems like betting or transactional platforms.
• Extensive engineering experience in:
• Java and related frameworks (Spring Boot / Quarkus).
• Building and maintaining APIs for high-throughput, real-time applications.
• Utilizing AWS for cloud-native architectures.
• Kafka and other NRT messaging platforms.
• Relational and non-relational databases like Cassandra, Redis, Postgre
  
  SQL.
• Observability tools like Splunk and New Relic.
• Experience designing software architecture for scalable, distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in Agile product delivery and Scrum methodologies.
• Demonstrated bias toward action and ownership over key initiatives with a delivery-focused mindset.

The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $170,000 USD, which is dependent on several factors including relevant experience, geography, business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k)-matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation.

This role includes paid Flexible Time Off and paid company holidays.

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