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Sky Betting & Gaming

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1001 - 5000 employees

🎲 Gambling

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gambling • Gaming • B2C

Sky Betting & Gaming is a UK-based consumer-facing betting and online gaming operator. Now part of Flutter UK & Ireland and the wider Flutter Entertainment group, the brand is presented alongside Betfair, Paddy Power, PokerStars and tombola as a market-leading provider of trusted entertainment to millions of customers. The company emphasizes responsible play, customer experience and uses digital platforms (web and apps) to deliver betting and gaming services, with operational presence in Leeds and registration under Flutter Entertainment plc.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of scalable, high-quality backend services in Go • Drive the technical evolution of our markets and trading backend, partnering with product and other engineering teams to deliver robust, observable, and maintainable systems • Own services and features end-to-end: spec writing → implementation → instrumentation → deployment → monitoring → iteration based on metrics • Design and implement experimentation capabilities (feature flags, A/B tests) to validate ideas quickly and safely • Model and manage data for markets, orders, and transactions with a focus on correctness, integrity, and auditability • Integrate on-chain and off-chain data sources, building reliable pipelines for blockchain event ingestion and querying • Collaborate on reliability practices including on-call participation, SLO definition, alerting, and incident response • Conduct thorough code reviews, raising the bar on code quality, readability, and maintainability • Leverage AI tools to accelerate development velocity while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, and performance • Establish and document team standards for AI usage (prompt patterns, code review checklists, validation strategies) • Contribute to a fast-paced 0→1 environment, unblocking others and taking initiative where processes are still being defined.

🎯 Requirements

• More than 4 years of experience building highly scalable, high-performance backend applications or distributed systems • Experience with PostgreSQL - complex query optimization, indexing strategies, and schema/migration management • Experience with event driven architecture like Kafka or PubSub • Strong grasp of software design principles (e.g., SOLID, DRY) and testing methodologies (unit, integration, and end-to-end testing) • Experience designing and integrating backend APIs and collaborating with cross-functional platform and product teams • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and safe deployment strategies for backend services • Experience working with production reliability practices (monitoring, logging, alerting, and basic SLO concepts) • Demonstrated experience using AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) to ship production code • Can demonstrate specific examples of workflow improvements from AI-assisted development (e.g., “reduced boilerplate generation time by 40%”) • Effectively communicates complex technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences, including engineers and stakeholders • Thrives in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly • Strong ability to collaborate cross-functionally across diverse teams within large enterprise environments, while operating with a startup mindset.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote employee may also be eligible for a home office setup stipend.