Role purpose

The Lead Backend Engineer forms part of the Engineering management team and will play a key role in both expert .NET development and leadership of a team of engineers.

Amused Group

Amused Group specialise in end-to-end product creation that leverages intuitive design, disruptive technologies, and an agile framework.​ We disrupt, we innovate, we are at the forefront of the wagering sector.​ Pushing the boundaries of tech today to build the solutions for tomorrow, we are building an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and difference.

Technologies we use:

• C# dotnet core and terraform.
• Azure, Function Apps, Event Hubs, and Kubernetes
• Proprietary and commercial solutions for security event detection and incident management

Key accountabilities

• Develop architectural diagrams and documentations to identify requirements and solutions.
• Adhere with the company coding standards and convention to produce high-performing and testable code.
• Hands on design, develop and maintain low latency APIs and building micro services architecture.
• Take ownership of your code in production, using metrics and customer feedback to guide technical priorities and improvements.
• Facilitate development and growth of junior engineers through mentoring and hiring
• Champion software quality, integrity, extensibility, maintainability, and reliability throughout the department by designing, implementing, and promoting engineering practices.
• Work across all phases of SDLC and use software engineering principles to build scaled solutions.
• Mentoring and governing of engineering team with technical expertise, systems design & building capability roadmaps.

Key selection criteria

Technical expertise

• 7+ years’ experience in dotnet/dotnet core.
• Strong cloud experience Azure and services like
• Function Apps, ECS
• Event Hub, Event Grid
• CosmosDB and Postgres SQL
• Strong experience in using infrastructure as code using terraform or bicep.
• Experience in design and develop highly available, scalable, and reliable Azure based systems
• Event driven architecture, messaging, and event bus platforms (Azure Event Hub, Kafka or similar)
• Distributed caching (Redis, Memcached or similar)
• SQL and Nosql – SQL Server/CosmosDB/PostgreSQL
• CI/CD - Continuous Delivery (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or similar)
• Building scalable and self-healing infrastructure in cloud

Knowledge and skills

• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills
• Solid understanding of multi-threading and low-latency programming techniques
• Demonstrate an extremely high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience in producing high quality code utilising practices like TDD, BDD
• Experience working in a start-up or heavily regulated environments.
• Develop tech and engineering practice guardrails and ensure they are adopted

Desirable Skills

• Exposure to high traffic / distributed software systems
• Exposure to high throughput mission critical systems

Who you are

• You are a leader– striving for technical excellence through your coding and system design
• You are committed – You strive to produce, exceptional, risk free, fully tested solutions in all the platforms you build.
• You can think on your feet - with experience building platforms which resolve fast paced, ever changing success measures.
• You are team player– fostering effective collaboration in multi-disciplinary squads across regions
• You are naturally curious– always asking why to better understand our customer needs
• You are a passionate problem solver – You love digging deep and brainstorming with colleagues in order to come up with the best solution for a problem

Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree – computer science
2. Master's degree – computer science (Bonus)
3. Azure certifications (Bonus)