Sporty Group

Partnered with some of the World’s greatest Champions including Real Madrid FC, Michael Essien and Eder Militao, we’re on the lookout for some Champions of our own to be a part of the 'Top Ranked Fastest Growing and Most Successful Online Gaming Brand in the World'. Home to SportyBet, SportyTV, Sporty.com, Football.com and the newly launched SportyFM, we continue to lead with innovation and exclusive sports content.

Sporty is expanding and we're building the world's go to platform for everyday entertainment.

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 

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

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

What’s In It For You

📍 Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability

💰 A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter

🌴 28 days paid annual leave

⏰ Our core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this

📝 Referral bonuses & flash bonuses

💻 Top of the line equipment

🌍 Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities

Interview Process

Remote video screening with our Talent Acquisition Team 

Offline Take home assignment

Remote video interview with Team Members (60 Mins)

Final discussion with the hiring manager (60 mins)

Personalised Support

We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone. If you need any adjustments or accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know.

Your Move

If you're excited about this role, even if you don't meet every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you. We understand candidates may hesitate to apply if they don't meet all requirements, however your unique perspective is what helps us innovate and grow together.

If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.