Position Overview & Specifications
About us We make a huge investment in everyone, offering great career development opportunities. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we thrive in a fast-paced environment where we have fun, celebrate success and give you all the tools you’ll need to be your best self. It’s not just our colleagues we look after - we’ve got a responsibility to our customers too and we work hard on our ambition to promote safer gambling.
Your Role in the Team
Our platform engineering team is tasked with bringing the benefits of DevOps at scale for the entire organization, improving the DevEx (Developer Experience) and DevRel (Developer Relations) for engineers. Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building self-service capabilities to minimize cognitive load for developers and to enable fast flow software delivery. One of the key products that we own is our developer portal, this provides a central location to showcase our other products, as well as a place for all other teams in all other departments to showcase their products in a standardized way.
Your contributions would help us improve our developer portal, where we have taken the open-sourced Spotify Backstage product, which has been customized and extended with a range of plugins, that involves the usage of React and TypeScript.
Implement software at a high level of quality- Work to & feed into development standards & best practices
- Working with the team to develop interfaces for our end users
- Work on designs to arrive at the most performant and user-friendly solutions
- Investigate, reproduce and resolve defects
- Writing automated system tests
What we are looking for
Experience in / knowledge of React framework- Experience in / knowledge of Node.js
- Professional development experience with a focus on the most common CSS techniques, CSS pre-processors, HTML, DOM, browser support and engines, HTTP and browser performance
- Demonstrable knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript
What we offer
We’ll welcome you on board with 25 days holiday (not to mention 8 bank holidays and an extra day for your birthday), healthcare (or a cash alternative), an attractive pension package. As an added incentive, we offer a rewarding bonus scheme too. And if you’re a fan of saving money and keeping fit, our handy Metro Card loan and healthy gym discounts will be well received.