Job Overview

Job Title Platform Engineer
Hiring Organization Sporty Group
Company Website https://sportygroup.com/
Remote Locations Worldwide
Job Type Remote, Full-Time

We consistently top the charts as one of if not the most used Sports Betting website in the countries we operate in.

With millions of weekly active users, we strive to be the best in industry for our users.

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

In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing microservices in a distributed deployment environment with an emphasis on containerisation with Docker and K8S. You won’t just be writing simple CRUD applications, but instead will be working on the core logic of complex systems that are accessed millions of times a day. We wrote our system from scratch about 3 years ago, so you’ll be working with the latest technology and won’t have to worry about decades old legacy code.

As a platform engineer you will be the bridge between our backend engineers and our DevOps team, utilising your knowledge of both ecosystems.

Our Stack (we don’t expect you to have all of these)

Language: Java 8+

Frameworks: Spring Boot (Tomcat, Netty), Spring Data, Spring Cloud

Architecture: Microservices, REST API, Message Queues

Database: MySQL, MyBatis, ShardingSphere, MongoDB

Caching: Redis (AWS ElastiCache), ElasticSearch

Message Queue: RocketMQ

Cloud: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS

Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, AWS CloudWatch

Job Responsibilities

Owning and improving CI/CD Pipelines
Own our released applications configuration
Create new environments across both test and production
Be hands on with the improvement of our monitoring and observability
Maintain and build Java Libraries between the suite of microservices
Maintain and assist in the building of our Java applications for cross-region deployment and incremental code releases

Job Requirements

Minimum of 3+ Years within a relevant role
Experience working with Java/Springboot
Strong knowledge of configuration management
Strong knowledge of Feature Management and Feature Toggles
Excellent understanding of deployment strategies and the creation of CI/CD pipelines
Strong knowledge of testing tooling experience tools such as JMeter or GoReplay
Strong knowledge of cloud monitoring tools such as Grafana or Prometheus

Beneficial skills:

Knowledge of Kubernetes
In-depth knowledge of Java/springboot and JVM tuning

Employee Benefits

Quarterly bonuses
We have core hours of 10am-3pm in a local timezone, but flexible hours outside of this
Top-of-the-line equipment
Referral bonuses
28 days paid annual leave
Annual company retreat
Highly talented, dependable co-workers in a global, multicultural organization
Payment via DEEL, a world class online wallet system
Our teams are small enough for you to be impactful
Our business is globally established and successful, offering stability and security to our Team Members