Company Description
The SG Digital Group (a division of Scientific Games) leads the global gaming market, providing innovative software that powers the world’s most successful operators.
We pride ourselves on product innovation and technical excellence and are constantly adding new applications and new functionality to our product suite, used by billions of end users. And, while many other companies have been downsizing, we continue to see growth across our business.
**Want to be part of our story?
Job Description**
SG Digital are looking for a hands on Development Lead to provide management and technical oversight for one of our teams delivering software to the New Zealand Racing Board. We are looking for a strong senior developer with proven hands on development experience leading a small to medium sized team in an agile environment.
A Development Lead is expected to take ownership of an engineering unit, harnessing the skills of those who specialise in disciplines such as software engineering, business analysis and quality assurance to deliver the best overall result. They are expected to line manage people in a variety of disciplines and effectively manage their careers providing the necessary direction and support. A Development Lead L4 uses their knowledge of software engineering best practice to shape the team’s methodology and deliver on the strategic direction for engineering processes.
Responsibilities include:
Line management of up to 6 technical resources including pastoral care, formal reviews and both identification and provisioning of training needs
Hands on development of new features
Management of resources to ensure the appropriate team shape, levels of experience/capability and fulfilment of roles - including the recruitment of technical employees
Facilitate development methodology e.g. sprint planning, retrospectives etc.
Implementation of strategy for software engineering processes, ensuring stakeholders are on board and measuring progress through KPIs
Customer liaison regarding day to day software engineering decisions, as well as wider roadmaps, practices and processes
Investigating and developing performance improvements to the platform
Developing new solutions to resolve ongoing issues with the platform
Being involved directly with the customer and internal product teams to plan and deliver for small, medium and large projects
Answering business stakeholders's queries about the platform
Working with different integration partners to solve integration issues
Assisting the support team in investigating production issues
The Day to Day Responsibilities will be to:
Develop new features and functionality for high transaction, large scale betting websites
Delegate work to your team accordingly, providing support where required
Prioritise the team's backlog and set customer expectations on timescales
Participate in design and code reviews
Designing solutions that are modular, scalable and portable
Work to improve overall system architecture and design components to meet those goals
Qualifications
If you are the right Development Lead for us you will be able to demonstrate:
A bachelor’s degree in a traditional science subject, ideally computer science, engineering, or information systems from a well-regarded university
Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
Experience of line management of a small team
Demonstrable talent coding in at least one major language (Java, J2EE, C, C++, Python, PHP)
Strong commercial experience in developing software
Demonstrable experience in large scale system design
It would also be great to see these skills/experiences as well:
Experience developing on Unix/Linux
Web technologies and internet protocols (SOAP, WS-*, ReST, XML, HTTP, TCP/IP)
Front-End Development (especially React.js)
Scripting skills: Bash, Perl, Python, JavaScript
Experience with Continuous Integration and Automated unit testing frameworks
Experience in developing large distributed systems and concepts such as caching, sharding, consistent hashing, interprocess communication and brokering
Ability to learn and critique new technologies quickly
Experience working remotely or alongside teams in different timezones would be beneficial
Additional Information
Why would you enjoy working with us at SG Digital?
Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace
The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis and the possibility to switch teams and projects as you and our business continues to develop and grow
Tangible and genuine development - at SG Digital, you can take your career where you want it to go!
Exposure to real work, business-critical projects and the chance to develop some of the world’s leading e-commerce sportsbooks whilst working on exciting client projects and interact with lots of code!
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Company Description The SG Digital Group (a division of Scientific Games) leads the global gaming market, providing innovative software that powers the world’s most successful operators.
We pride ourselves on product innovation and technical excellence and are constantly adding new applications and new functionality to our product suite, used by billions of end users. And, while many other companies have been downsizing, we continue to see growth across our business.
**Want to be part of our story?
Job Description** SG Digital are looking for a hands on Development Lead to provide management and technical oversight for one of our teams delivering software to the New Zealand Racing Board. We are looking for a strong senior developer with proven hands on development experience leading a small to medium sized team in an agile environment.
A Development Lead is expected to take ownership of an engineering unit, harnessing the skills of those who specialise in disciplines such as software engineering, business analysis and quality assurance to deliver the best overall result. They are expected to line manage people in a variety of disciplines and effectively manage their careers providing the necessary direction and support. A Development Lead L4 uses their knowledge of software engineering best practice to shape the team’s methodology and deliver on the strategic direction for engineering processes.
Responsibilities include:
Line management of up to 6 technical resources including pastoral care, formal reviews and both identification and provisioning of training needs
Hands on development of new features
Management of resources to ensure the appropriate team shape, levels of experience/capability and fulfilment of roles - including the recruitment of technical employees
Facilitate development methodology e.g. sprint planning, retrospectives etc.
Implementation of strategy for software engineering processes, ensuring stakeholders are on board and measuring progress through KPIs
Customer liaison regarding day to day software engineering decisions, as well as wider roadmaps, practices and processes
Investigating and developing performance improvements to the platform
Developing new solutions to resolve ongoing issues with the platform
Being involved directly with the customer and internal product teams to plan and deliver for small, medium and large projects
Answering business stakeholders's queries about the platform
Working with different integration partners to solve integration issues
Assisting the support team in investigating production issues
The Day to Day Responsibilities will be to:
Develop new features and functionality for high transaction, large scale betting websites
Delegate work to your team accordingly, providing support where required
Prioritise the team's backlog and set customer expectations on timescales
Participate in design and code reviews
Designing solutions that are modular, scalable and portable
Work to improve overall system architecture and design components to meet those goals
Qualifications If you are the right Development Lead for us you will be able to demonstrate:
A bachelor’s degree in a traditional science subject, ideally computer science, engineering, or information systems from a well-regarded university
Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
Experience of line management of a small team
Demonstrable talent coding in at least one major language (Java, J2EE, C, C++, Python, PHP)
Strong commercial experience in developing software
Demonstrable experience in large scale system design
It would also be great to see these skills/experiences as well:
Experience developing on Unix/Linux
Web technologies and internet protocols (SOAP, WS-*, ReST, XML, HTTP, TCP/IP)
Front-End Development (especially React.js)
Scripting skills: Bash, Perl, Python, JavaScript
Experience with Continuous Integration and Automated unit testing frameworks
Experience in developing large distributed systems and concepts such as caching, sharding, consistent hashing, interprocess communication and brokering
Ability to learn and critique new technologies quickly Experience working remotely or alongside teams in different timezones would be beneficial Additional Information Why would you enjoy working with us at SG Digital?
Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace
The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis and the possibility to switch teams and projects as you and our business continues to develop and grow
Tangible and genuine development - at SG Digital, you can take your career where you want it to go!
Exposure to real work, business-critical projects and the chance to develop some of the world’s leading e-commerce sportsbooks whilst working on exciting client projects and interact with lots of code!
contact-info: kevin.ren@sgdigital.com