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Sporty’s sites are some of the most popular on the internet, consistently staying in Alexa’s list of top websites for the countries they operate in.
As Technical Lead you will be responsible for overseeing hundreds of servers and will have a budget of several million pounds per year. This is an opportunity to lead a technical team and work in a hands on DevOps function.
Who We Are
Sporty Group is a consumer internet and technology business with an unrivalled sports media, gaming, social and fintech platform which serves millions of daily active users across the globe via technology and operations hubs across more than 10 countries and 3 continents.
The recipe for our success is to discover intelligent and energetic people, who are passionate about our products and serving our users, and attract and retain them with a dynamic and flexible work life which empowers them to create value and rewards them generously based upon their contribution.
We have already built a capable and proven team of 300+ high achievers from a diverse set of backgrounds and we are looking for more talented individuals to drive further growth and contribute to the innovation, creativity and hard work that currently serves our users further via their grit and innovation.
Our Stack
Languages: Java / Spring Boot, TypeScript / VueJSCloud
Libraries: Netflix Eureka, Netflix Ribbon, Feign, Netflix Zuul
Database: MySQL, Oracle, Mybatis, Druid
Cache: Redisson, ElastiCache, Redis
MQ: Apache RocketMQ
Tasking: Elastic
JobServer: Netty
LoadBalance & Proxy: Nginx
Virtualization: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher
Computing & Storage: AWS EC2, VPC, AWS Lambda, EBS, S3
Maintenance: AWS Opsworks, Salt, Chef
CI/CD: Drone, AWS Codepipeline, Jenkins
Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, AWS Cloudwatch
Logging: ELK, Rsyslog, Log4j2
CDN: Cloudflare
Responsibilities
Maintain expertise in architectural technical disciplines and define architectural standards and best practices within those disciplines
Implement code and architecture changes
Manage a growing technical team and mentor team members on new technologies in your area of expertise
Prepare and maintain documents that include architectural diagrams, data models and navigation maps in your area of expertise
Analyse and prepare recommendations to address existing and potential issues in systems and procedures across the organisation, as well as design and recommend new solutions
Work with Product Owners and assign Development Team members to work on new features and user stories needed in new / revised applications or large / complex development projects
Participate in code reviews with team members to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriate
Establish technical vision and work with team members to turn it into a reality
Respond to support calls for applications in production, addressing repairs quickly and keeping applications in production
Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstrations and team retrospectives
Requirements
All of the traits of a good developer and be an experienced leader of people with experience gained in Software Engineering, and DevOps, including good experience as a Lead Developer or equivalent
The successful candidate will have strong experience with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, Microservice and also a self-driven engineer with proven DevOps experience in large-scale Microservice systems hosted on AWS
Expert knowledge of application development with technologies like RabbitMQ, MySQL, Redis and so on
Experience in DevOps activities, production support. All aspects involved in delivering web applications to a production system in an enterprise and familiarity with AWS, Git
Experience in Android, iOS, and Vue.JS is a plus
Experience in automated software testing through unit/functional/integration test suites
Experience in / knowledge of Agile delivery principles and practices such as Scrum or Kanban
Experience designing highly transactional systems
A natural disposition to mentor and guide team members
A creative approach to problem solving and crafting simplified solutions
Strong experience with container and cloud solutions, such as Docker, Kubernetes
An up-to-date knowledge of and a follower of the latest industry trends
A passion for cloud computing and large-scale systems
Benefits
Quarterly and flash bonuses
Flexible working hours
Top-of-the-line equipment
Education allowance
Referral bonuses
Annual company holidays - we’re still hoping to make it to Koh Samui in 2021!
Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organization
We score 100% on The Joel Test
Our UK team is small enough for you to be impactful
Our business is established and successful, offering stability and security to our employees
This is a self employed opportunity
$80,000 — $130,000/year
Location
Europe