Java API Engineer – Scalable Sportsbook Platform

Bally; Manchester; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Pension plan

Health insurance

Company share scheme

Volunteering days

Home office allowance

Wellness or Gym allowance

Job summary

Bally’s Intralot is building out its Sports API capabilities with a focus on high-traffic online services. You’ll work on developing features and APIs underpinning Bally Bet, collaborating across Sports UI, Platform and Data teams in a modern AWS-based stack.

You’ll contribute to delivering robust, scalable APIs, using Java 17/21, Spring Boot 3.x, Docker, Kubernetes, GraphQL and Kafka, with a strong emphasis on continuous delivery, testing and agile teamwork.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Java, SpringBoot, relational databases and API design and development.
• Experience working using agile methodologies.
• Experienced with engineering best practices including TDD, pairing, automation, continuous delivery.
• Ideally also knowledge or experience of tools including GraphQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk, Dynatrace, AWS.

Responsibilities

• Develop product features, updates and capabilities.
• Use TDD methodologies to produce high quality well documented code.
• Design and develop customer focussed solutions.
• Understand the goals and business objectives of your team and domain.
• Use agile methodologies and work together to meet our team goals.
• Work closely with your team-members pairing on problems and ensuring you share knowledge.
• Contribute to the peer review of code changes seeking understanding and suggesting improvements.
• Take responsibility for efficiently and successfully delivering your code changes to production.
• Communicate progress to the team and raise issues and risks as soon as possible.
• Continuously improve the tools and processes used by the team.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Relational databases

API design

Agile methodologies

TDD

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL

Kafka

AWS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

GraphQL

Kafka

Splunk

Dynatrace

AWS

Job description

Bally’s Intralot is building out its Sports API capabilities with a focus on high-traffic online services. You’ll work on developing features and APIs underpinning Bally Bet, collaborating across Sports UI, Platform and Data teams in a modern AWS-based stack.

You’ll contribute to delivering robust, scalable APIs, using Java 17/21, Spring Boot 3.x, Docker, Kubernetes, GraphQL and Kafka, with a strong emphasis on continuous delivery, testing and agile teamwork.