Software Engineer

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Now is an exciting time to join the team, you will be an integral part of the Reacting Swiftly squad within the UK&I Sports Experience Tribe, focusing on crafting high-quality software solutions that seamlessly blend Swift and React Native technologies. As a Software Engineer, you'll contribute to maintaining our existing Swift application which provides entertainment to over 1 million active customers a month whilst actively also being involved in the integration of a React Native codebase. We promote Hackdays, Innovation Days, self-learning and provide engineers space to fulfil their potential and the needs of the tribe.

What you’ll do

• Turn concepts and requirements into beautifully crafted native mobile applications, using a combination of Swift, Objective-C and React Native.
• Actively participate in app feature design POCs, data flows and detailed technical designs.
• Maintain our code quality and have a good grasp of the overall app you are working on and how it meets the needs of the end users, and business objectives.
• Understand the importance of non-functionals such as battery usage, app start up time and overall UX. Ensuring our apps perform well to deliver the best user experience possible for all our customers is something you consider as part of the normal delivery process.
• Be an engaged member of the team, actively collaborating with other team members, working together to help everyone improve their skills.
• Be familiar with our continuous integration pipelines to enhance deployment processes.
• Work with other Engineers, technical and non-technical stakeholders and architects to envision, design and deliver industry leading apps, and to set a sustainable forward strategy.

How you’ll do it

We are looking for a Software Engineer with a keen interest in mobile platforms who will bring a solid base knowledge of engineering principles to develop and maintain high quality code. You'll collaborate and work closely with Software Engineers, Senior Software Engineers and the Engineering Manager to ensure that the highest standards of software engineering practises are met daily.

• Experience contributing to production codebases and both Swift and React Native codebases.
• Experience of mobile architecture patterns and an understanding of when these are best applied.
• Good working knowledge of Git version control, including an understanding of common branching strategies, merging, resolving conflicts and cherry-picking.
• Ability to analyse complex problems and to understand and propose effective solutions independently, as well as troubleshoot and debug issues in cross-platform mobile applications.
• Familiarity and experience with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban, and the ability to work in an iterative and collaborative development environment.
• Willingness to stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in the mobile development world.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment of mobile application a nice to have.

What’s on offer

• Twice-yearly bonus (with part of it guaranteed!)
• Unlimited Holiday
• Hybrid Working
• Access to thousands of Udemy courses
• Invest via the Company Sharesave Scheme

About Flutter UK & Ireland

Our division operates four of the most popular and trusted brands in the market: Sky Betting and Gaming, Tombola, Betfair and Paddy Power.

Together the Flutter UK&I brands offer market leading entertainment to millions of customers every single week! Over the last couple of decades, they have all ridden the wave of digital betting with industry firsts like ‘cash-out’, ‘Request a Bet’, betting exchanges and free to play games like Soccer Saturday Super 6.

Working here

Do you want to work somewhere extraordinary? From the people you spend your days with, to the ground-breaking projects, no two days will be the same.

With a philosophy of ‘Together We Are More’ our 7,000+ colleagues come together to form an expert community across technology, product, commercial, data, infrastructure, marketing, and a myriad of subject areas.

We listen without judgement, encourage & support, and help build others up. Working at Flutter UK&I means you can be yourself, work how and where suits you best -and let your personality shine!

We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.

If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.