William Hill

Job description

Our software development teams play a crucial role in building the next generation of evoke's sports betting platform. This platform is designed to handle the processing of thousands of bets per second, while also managing a vast amount of sports event data. Our primary goal is to offer customers an exceptional, enjoyable, and secure betting experience.

As a Python developer within the team, you are tasked with ensuring that we consistently deliver significant value to our customers. This involves adhering to best practices and coding standards, while also actively seeking opportunities to enhance the team's processes and overall effectiveness. Your contributions are essential in maintaining the quality, efficiency, and innovation of our platform.

What you will be doing:

• Designing solutions for new features with a strong focus on non-functional requirements (such as scalability, performance, security, usability)
• Taking initiative/ownership to drive projects to completion and overcome roadblocks with positivity and creativity.
• Functionally testing all developed code to a very high standard to enable QA to test efficiently ensuring non-functional requirements such as scalability, performance, monitoring, maintenance, security, and usability
• Respond with urgency to operational issues, owning resolution within your sphere of responsibility.
• Monitor key metrics and remain vigilant about degradations in service.
• Leading technical and functional discussions within team
• Mentoring teammates and providing meaningful feedback.

Who we are looking for:

• Demonstrable deep knowledge of Python with extensive experience with MySQL and Linux
• Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills with experience with asynchronous networking library such as Twisted or Tornado
• Experience using modern Python web frameworks. e.g. Flask, Django and Python ORM e.g. storm, sqlalchemy with knowledge of cloud based services, e.g, Kafka, Elasticsearch etc
• Great communication skills are essential

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Company pension
• Discretionary annual bonus depending on your performance and the company's performance
• Tax Saver Commuter scheme
• Bike to work scheme
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Income Protection Plan
• Life Assurance
• e-learning platforms (plenty of resources for your development)
• Referral Programme
• Flexitime
• 24-day annual leave that increases with length of service
• Birthday Leave (1 extra day off to celebrate your day)

More about evoke

We’re a business that embraces change and progress. The power behind big name brands William Hill, 888 and Mr Green, evoke is the new name for 888 Holdings. Marking a new sense of purpose, direction and ambition for the business, there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us as we accelerate our journey to bring even greater delight to our customers with world-class betting and gaming experiences. That’s the future. That’s evoke.

At evoke, you’ll benefit from flexibility and a culture built on trust. We’ll give you the space to be yourself and the tools you need to protect our customers while they play. We’ll invest in your future to help you develop your unique strengths and build a career that’s right for you.

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At evoke, we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion for the benefit of our company, employees, and communities. We foster a welcoming and safe workplace that values all forms of diversity and provides opportunities for growth.

Sound good? Then you belong at our place! The first step in the recruitment process is kickstarting your application, followed by an initial screening call and an interview stage.

Apply today to kickstart your application with the evoke Family!