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Java Developer - London based - Hybrid work from home / onsite work locationSoftware Power BetfairAt Paddy Power Betfair, we are building the most advanced betting platform in the world. Our developers work on some of the biggest technical challenges in the gambling and financial industries. They are responsible for the software that handles more than 5 billion requests per day, manages billions of pounds of our customers' money, and the underlying real-time analysis of the complex data resulting from this high throughput, low-latency platform.What You'll DoComplete a six-week onboarding programme to learn about the domain and get up to speed with unfamiliar technologyWork on a wide variety of projects across the entire business as part of a cross-product and cross-brand departmentDesign and develop highly available, resilient, and distributed backend services in Java and KDB+Run complex analyses on Big Data in real-time with sub-second latency to gain an edge over competitors and identify the behaviour patterns of bad actors within our ecosystemMeasure the performance and availability of our tech stack - to track inefficiencies and continuously improve our softwareUnderstand our customer's behaviours and use cases to offer the best experience possible through the software you deliverEvangelise code quality and good practices, continuous delivery, and automation within an Agile environmentTake control of your personal growth within a supportive environment and guided by your own mentor Technology You'll UseJava to write most of our application codeKafka for our asynchronous message queueKDB+ for our real time data analyticsBoxever for the decisioning of our group-wide personalisation capabilityAWS for our public cloud offeringI2 as our own private cloud offering for most of our infrastructurePython / Bash to write scriptsJenkins to create deployment stagesGo to link the deployments into pipelinesAnsible to automate app deploymentSplunk for monitoring and alerting.NET to manage our catalogueOracle DB to persist our dataLinuxas the main platform of choiceThe Hiring TeamThe Platform Services Tribe is the newest addition to the Sports and Platforms department within PPB Technology. Our mission is to take the best technologies and capabilities within the Flutter group and extend it to all relevant areas of the business.We work in a highly adaptive environment with current focus on personalisation of user experience and real-time analysis of the rich veins of data resulting from the millions of transactions taking place on our platform every day. High-performance data streaming drives insights on customers, both to serve the business needs and to provide experiences tailored to each customer.Joining a brand-new tribe, you will have plenty of opportunities to drive the direction of the technology we use and the tools we develop. We encourage innovative solutions and improvements to the challenges we face and empower individuals to own the entire lifecycle of the idea.About UsPaddy Power Betfair plc is part of Flutter Entertainment, a global sports betting, gaming and entertainment provider with over thirteen million customers worldwide. As a group, we operate some of the world's most innovative, diverse and distinctive sports betting and gaming brands. This includes brands Paddy Power, Betfair, PokerStars, Sky Betting & Gaming, FanDuel, Fox Bet, Sportsbet, Odds Checker and Full Tilt.Our spirit, talent, and ambition has taken us into the FTSE 100 index of the London Stock Exchange and we now employ over 13,000 people across more than 20 offices and over 600 retail sites. Our colleagues demonstrate curiosity and integrity in everything they do. Our culture rewards innovation, teamwork and we like to stay fast-moving in a dynamic industry.We believe that diversity of experience and background can help us achieve our company goals and provide a better work environment for our employees as well as a better product for our customers. If you have the desire to shape our culture and influence the technical direction of our business, we recommend that you apply.We strive to be a responsible operator, committed to making a positive contribution to the communities we operate within.You Should Apply IfYou have more than 2 years software development experience in Java, KDB+ or other programming languagesAre passionate about technology and care about code quality and best practicesAre keen to contribute towards the vision of our next generation platformAre willing to take on new challenges and work on different projects and applicationsYou love collaborating with other developers, happy to do pair programmingYou have working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written EnglishIf you have the above skills and experience and are looking to develop your Java Development skills click apply now, alternately send an email directly to me on - Thanks.