Senior Java Developer

Pala Interactive is a full-service, real-money and social gaming technology provider and operator. Pala offers a full spectrum of games across all distribution channels (web, download, tablet & smartphone) which include casino, poker, and bingo for real money and social gaming.

Pala’s strength is its relentless focus on high quality, high functioning, immersive software platforms run across high availability, high security, high transaction load infrastructure. Pala is a technology company at its heart and is committed to being a mobile-first developer of real-money gaming applications.

The Senior Java Developer will join the development team to actively design and develop a new generation of gaming platform and services. The web gaming applications are highly configurable and customizable, are under a high transaction rate with high robustness and scalability requirements.

Major technical duties include:

1. Design and develop new functionality of the platform
2. Maintain and improve existing modules, subsystems, and legacy code
3. Take ownership of development tasks and implement on time and with high quality
4. Understand underlying gaming domain and leverage the knowledge in design and development of the systems
5. Design and implement unit and integration tests, and assist QA team with test case modeling
6. Develop APIs and integrations with mobile clients and other systems
7. Participate in troubleshooting and ongoing support of production systems
8. Assist other team members with resolving various development problems

Requirements:

1. 5-8 years of Java development experience focusing on distributed server-side systems including web and stand-alone applications
2. Good understanding of in-memory data structures and associated algorithms
3. Solid knowledge of Spring and Hibernate/JPA
4. Solid SQL and data modeling knowledge
5. Experience with MySQL or similar relational databases
6. Experience with Web Services – REST and SOAP
7. Good understanding of multi-threading and concurrency
8. Experience with Groovy/Grails a strong asset
9. Experience with Spring Boot web services
10. Familiarity with Casino games (poker, etc) a strong asset
11. Experience with Tomcat and Linux as operational environment
12. Knowledge and experience with Object-Oriented and Service-Oriented Architectures
13. Understanding of performance and scalability optimization
14. Understanding of DB scaling and optimizations

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• On-site childcare
• On-site gym
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
• RRSP match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision care

Work location: Hybrid Remote - 3 days per week in North York, ON M2J 5B5

Required Qualifications:

This is not a remote position. Are you comfortable working on a hybrid basis at the office 3 days per week?

Do you have at least 7 years of experience with Java development?