Senior Software Engineer, Java

Kindred People AB; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Kindred People AB as a Senior Software Engineer where you will develop high-quality code and work on innovative solutions that meet business and technical requirements. You’ll play a crucial role in ensuring the team reaches its goals by implementing and improving coding practices, and taking ownership of team commitments.

We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where talent knows no boundaries. This position welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently and produce high quality code.
• Experience in automating tests and improving code quality.
• Understanding of secure development practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop high quality code using appropriate techniques.
• Design solutions that meet business and technical requirements.
• Contribute to best practices and improve the status quo.
• Critique solutions and code of peers.
• Automate relevant processes with a shift-left mindset.
• Implement quality assurance practices like BDD and TDD.

Skills

High quality coding

Experience with different systems and architectures

Coding review and feedback

Automating to improve efficiency

Good communication skills

TDD and BDD practices

Incident management

Performance testing

Agile practices

CI/CD pipelines maintenance

Code analysis tools

Job description

Overview

At FDJ UNITED, we don’t just follow the game, we reinvent it. We are one of Europe’s leading betting and gaming operators, with a vast portfolio of iconic brands and a reputation for technological excellence. With more than 5,000 employees and a presence in around fifteen regulated markets, the Group offers a diversified, responsible range of games, both under exclusive rights and open to competition. We set new standards, proving that entertainment and safety can go hand in hand. Here, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to delivering the best and safest entertaining experiences for our customers every day. We’re looking for bold people who are eager to succeed and ready to level-up the game.

Role

Senior Software Engineer

Key accountabilities / Responsibilities

• Develops high quality code using the most appropriate techniques (e.g., design patterns).
• Designs solutions to meet business and technical requirements; able to challenge and proactively suggest improvements to requirements.
• Contributes to best practices and pro-actively looks to improve the status quo (e.g., logging, performance testing).
• Focused and engaged in team commitments; takes ownership to help the team reach its goals.
• Constructively critiques solutions and code of peers.
• Actively seeks to automate where relevant with a shift-left mindset (catch bugs early during development).
• Follows and implements good practices in quality assurance (e.g., BDD, TDD).
• Decides confidently on actions affecting the team.

Skills, knowledge and experience

• Can work independently and writes high quality code using appropriate techniques to create performant solutions.
• Experience with different systems and architectures to contribute to team solutions.
• Ability to code review, give and receive feedback.
• Ability to break down technical GAP documents/requirements into deliverable work items.
• Experienced with automating to improve efficiency and catch defects early.
• Good communication skills to work with team and stakeholders.
• Understanding and adoption of good practices such as TDD, BDD.
• Experienced in incident management.
• Experience in writing, executing and analyzing performance tests.
• Ability to effectively represent the team in stakeholder discussions using domain concepts and language.
• Understanding of risk assessment and impact analysis.
• Good grasp of secure development.
• Experience working with agile practices and ability to suggest improvements to the team’s processes.
• Maintain the team’s CI/CD pipelines.
• Use appropriate code analysis tools to improve code quality and security.

Equality and inclusion

We believe talent knows no boundaries. Our hiring process focuses solely on your skills, experience, and potential to contribute to our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and evaluate each candidate based on merit, regardless of personal characteristics such as age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation, neurodiversity or disability.