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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $180.5k - $237.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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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

• Design, build, and scale distributed systems using Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot for a live real-money trading platform • Own and optimize high-throughput Kafka event pipelines, including partition strategy, consumer group design, and exactly-once processing • Build high-throughput, low-latency event-stream systems ensuring data integrity, cache coherence, and sub-millisecond read paths • Partner with product and engineering leadership on cross-domain technical decisions • Diagnose and durably fix production issues in a live trading environment • Identify performance bottlenecks and technical risks before they affect trading operations • Raise engineering standards through design documents, code and architecture reviews, and scalable engineering patterns

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems in production • Expert-level proficiency in Java or Kotlin and Spring Boot • Strong command of REST, gRPC, and Protobuf API design • Deep hands-on experience with Kafka, Redpanda, or Pub/Sub • Knowledge of Kafka partition strategies, consumer group rebalancing, and delivery guarantees • Deep experience with event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging • Demonstrated end-to-end domain ownership of systems • Strong performance optimization skills involving latency, throughput, and data pipeline efficiency • Clear, direct communication skills • High tolerance for ambiguity and speed • Preferred: experience with real-time delivery systems such as WebSocket fan-out, server-sent events, or pub/sub at scale • Preferred: familiarity with financial platforms, real-time trading systems, or prediction markets • Preferred: experience in a high-growth startup environment • Preferred: familiarity with FIX protocol or exchange connectivity patterns

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary and bonus • Full-time employment • In-person onboarding/cultural immersion may be provided for full-time, non-seasonal hires • Benefits information provided at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/