Flutter

Senior Software Engineer (Scala), Hybrid-Dublin

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) 1

What’s This Role All About?

At Flutter Group, we design, build, and run a world-class global product distribution platform for the largest online betting company in the world. Our technology powers sports betting for over 20 in-house brands and B2B customers, running 24/7, 365 days a year, across the globe.

We’re looking for Senior Scala Engineers to join our Global Product Distribution teams. Our platform is already an industry leader—distributing nearly one million sports events per year—but we’re always pushing to do better. If you’re passionate about innovation and love solving complex problems, you’ll be joining a team of exceptional engineers who are shaping the future of sports betting technology.

What You’ll Be Working On

Sports betting is a fast-paced, data-heavy industry, and our platform processes huge volumes of real-time data with ultra-low latency. Every day, you’ll take on exciting challenges that require technical expertise, creativity, and collaboration.

Our tech stack includes:

✅ Scala as a core programming language

✅ Streaming technologies to handle high-speed data

✅ Containers & public cloud platforms for scalability

✅ CI/CD pipelines & automation for smooth deployments

✅ Agile methodologies & test-driven development

Why Join Us?

We’re proud of our culture of autonomy, flexibility, and trust. We believe that empowered engineers build the best solutions, and we work hard to create an environment where you can grow, experiment, and make an impact.

Is this you?

• You focus on solving problems over writing lots of software
• You’re highly motivated and manage your time well
• You build quality into your software upfront by understanding problems from multiple perspectives
• You understand that it’s the value you create and what you contribute that matters, not how long you spend working
• You expect others to show trust in you, but you understand it works both ways
• You have the confidence to ask a question, that you know others want answered
• You’re an innovator
• You’re an empowered, pragmatic decision-maker who balances risk against rewards
• You take pride in and demonstrate ownership for what you deliver
• You have a passion for solving complex problems using technology

Responsibilities

• Design and develop trading applications in Scala that meet both functional and non-functional requirements
• Set the standard for the team in terms of code quality, maintainability and testability.
• Lead design/architecture discussions & decisions
• Lead/mentor more junior engineers
• Take technical ownership for complex applications
• Be flexible to changing requirements and priorities, while managing own task list and time
• Be a team player – put the team above the individual and take responsibility for the team’s reputation
• Effectively communicate within the team and showcase the team’s successes within the department
• Troubleshoot and debug real-time development issues
• Contribute to the on-going evolution and continuous improvement of the department
• Support the department’s Production systems

Experience & Qualifications Required:

• 5+ years of experience as a Scala engineer.
• Experience leading a team technically
• Experience in Java is a bonus
• Bachelors/Master's degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline
• Experience in event-streaming platforms such as Kafka and/or Pulsar
• Experience in message broker platforms such as RabbitMQ
• Knowledge of using Actor systems (e.g. Akka) for building highly available & scalable systems
• Experience of Event sourcing
• NoSql technologies (e.g. DynamoDB, Cassandra)
• Practical experience with AWS or other public cloud provider
• Test-driven development techniques (e.g. BDD and ATDD)
• Automated testing and mocking techniques
• Clean coding
• Agile and Lean approaches

Who Are We?

Paddy Power Betfair is an international sports betting and gaming operator, with a market-leading presence in the UK and Ireland, as well as a range of operations across Europe including Romania, Portugal and Malta.

We are online-led, mobile-led and sports-led: and our proprietary technology, unique products and innovative marketing all combine to offer a superb experience to our five million customers worldwide.

Our spirit, talent and ambition has taken us into the FTSE 100 index of the London Stock Exchange and we now employ over 7,000 people in sixteen locations across the globe; from Dublin to Los Angeles, and London to Melbourne. Our culture rewards innovation, teamwork and we like to stay fast-moving in a dynamic industry.

ON A LARGER SCALE

We are part of Flutter Entertainment, a global sports betting, gaming and entertainment provider for over thirteen million customers worldwide.

Established in 2019, Flutter merged with The Stars Group in 2020. As the parent company Flutter Entertainment now has a host of brands that sit under it including Paddy Power and Betfair (PPB), Sky Betting and Gaming, PokerStars, Timeform, Oddschecker, Sporting Life, SportsBet in Australia and FOX Bet, TVG and FanDuel in the US.

Across the globe, Flutter employs over 14,000 people across more than 40 offices and over 600 retail sites. We pride ourselves on being a responsible operator, committed to making a positive contribution to the communities we operate within.

WHAT IS YOUR CHALLENGE?

• We deliver products at scale for over 5 million customers, 99,9% of transactions in less than a second
• The products you'll develop will comply with ambitious uptime targets: less than 50 minutes downtime expected per year
• Our systems process more than 7 million transactions every day (more than all the European stock exchanges combined)
• We deliver high transitional products, serving more than 2.5Bn calls a day
• We have a diverse and up to date technical landscape to explore, leverage and innovate on

What Will I Get in Return?

Let's start with a fantastic salary and an uncapped Holiday Allowance - Yes, you heard that right - UNCAPPED holiday! We're all about on going development2, so you'll receive a self-development fund of €1,000 per year to spend on your learning. We love the concept of Flexible Working. That's why we have a host of flexible working options that are available to you. Add to that, we are part of a global company with offices on four continents. We offer the opportunity to work with people and teams in these offices and the possibility to work from those locations for a period or permanently. We are part of a large diverse global company and we encourage and support people to move to different roles or parts of the company to further their career development aspirations.

What else can I expect in the way of benefits?

The Fun Stuff: Annual Target bonus, Health & Wellbeing, with free classes such a yoga, boot camp, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, running & cycling clubs among others and a hybrid working model between home and office working.

What about the not so fun, but necessary, benefits?

We have a subsidised canteen, a great Pension/Flexible Financial Wellbeing package as well as Private health insurance, Life assurance and Income protection.

Ways of working:

Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce, and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them;

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only the suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.

By submitting your application online, you agree that: your details will be used to progress your employment application. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than two years, to consider you for prospective Paddy Power Betfair role.

BETTER FLEXIBILITY FOR YOU

All our live jobs champion hybrid working, offering a flexible blend of home and office working with full autonomy to decide how many times you travel into the office each quarter.

Looking for a remote role? Let's chat – we're open to discussing remote working for all our live jobs.

Inclusive Employer

We are an inclusive employer and we encourage people from all backgrounds. Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them.

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