Java Software Engineer

Job Summary:

EveryMatrix is looking for a Backend Developer to join our SportsEngine team in Bucharest.

Company Intro:

EveryMatrix is a leading B2B SaaS provider delivering iGaming software, content and services. We provide casino, sports betting, platform and payments, and affiliate management to 200 customers worldwide. The company is profitable, has over EUR 100m in annual revenues, and 700 employees in offices across ten countries in Europe, Asia and the US.  EveryMatrix was founded in 2008 and remains a founder-owned private company.

Team Description:

The Sports Engine is the beating heart of the whole OddsMatrix system: all the betting odds transactions are flowing through the Sports Engine. It is composed of several distributed modules which support three main functions:  data collection, data processing, data publication.

Sports Engine has soft real-time constraints: end-to-end time for each transaction must be less than 1 second.

Sports Engine has availability constraints: high availability is a must and we are striving for up-time measured in months. If the Sports Engine is down, all the other components of the OddsMatrix system become unusable.

Sports Engine is an evolving system: We must keep the pace with an ever-increasing number of betting odds. In the last couple of years, the number of odds doubled, and we are preparing for a similar increase in the future. Related, on peaks, we reach several thousand transactions per second.

Responsibilities:

• Think of and write technical specifications.
• Contribute to the design and the implementation of new modules.
• Add features to the existing modules.
• Tune the applications when they do not abide by the real-time constraints.
• Add unit and functional tests wherever you feel they are needed.
• Run refactoring sessions when needed. (not everything is perfect).
• Work closely with your colleagues (many times in pair programming).
• Code review your colleague’s work.
• Enhance your technical and team working skills.
• Automatize deployment processes.

Requirements:

• Three years or more professional experience as a Java SE software developer.
• Strong experience and knowledge of object-oriented software design.
• Strong knowledge of data structures.
• Strong experience with multi-threaded environments.
• Experience with Junit/ TestNG.
• Experience with JDBC, SQL/MySQL.
• Experience with high scalable software and high-performing components is a plus.
• Experience with Spring Boot is a plus.
• Experience with Apache Kafka is a plus.
• Performance Tuning & Optimization (profilers, garbage collection tuning) is a plus.
• Experience with Maven, Jenkins, Gitlab, Ansible is a plus.
• Foreign languages: fluent in English.
• Passionate about developing software and in love with the unit and functional testing.
• Committed to a high level of quality.
• Proactive and pragmatic.

Work Life Balance:

• 33 days off per year, including public holidays, rising to 43 by year 5 inside the company
• 10 sick leave days per year (without a doctor’s note)
• 40% work from home, over any 3-month period
• If returning to work soon after having child, 1 year 100% WFH for mothers
• WFH after child is born – for fathers: 13 weeks of 100% WFH (from the day of the birth of the child)

Benefits and Office perks:

• Daily catered lunch or lunch allowance in value of 85 EUR net per month
• Private Medical insurance – Regina Maria
• Our own in-house gym, health & well-being programs
• Fruits Tuesday
• Access to online learning platforms Udemy for Business and O’Reilly and budget for external training
• Bookster
• Massage at work
• Anniversary gifts
• Frequent free-bar parties, annual whole-company parties (have previously rented our own planes to get everyone together!)
• Fun corner: ping pong table, PS4, lots of board games