Java Developer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Gears of Leo is the technology company behind the mobile gaming experience LeoVegas.com. The company was founded with the idea to create the development team you always dreamed of working with and to build the world's best technology for gaming and transaction services for mobile. It has been incredibly successful.

LeoVegas is Europe's leading mobile casino, and has received international recognition as a pioneer and technology leader. GIQ trade magazine summarized it as "LeoVegas is leading the way into the mobile future." Our mobile casino opened in January 2012 and our second quarter revenue for 2015 was nearly €20m, growing 123% from the previous year.

LeoVegas Group, including Swedish Gears of Leo, is now over 260 employees and we are in a highly expansive phase in our offices in Sweden, UK and Malta. We have won several prestigious industry awards since inception, including; "Mobile Casino of the Year" in 2014, the EGR Operator Awards 2014 "Best Innovation in Mobile and Tablet", EGR Innovation Awards 2014.

Job Description

Do you want to be a part our success story? If you do, we have the perfect opportunity for you. We are now looking to strengthen our team in Växjö with great Java Developers, both senior and junior. You will be a part of an agile team within a flat organization with short decision times. We prioritize both business and technology, and our team has the responsibility to develop LeoVegas own platform. Our technique is “state-of-the-art” and our scalable system is built to handle a very transactional environment. We value your skill set and not necessarily years you have worked as a developer. 

The right candidate for this position is a creative and critical thinker who thrives in a fast-paced open-office environment where it’s critical to balance team collaboration and communication. Our next team player is someone who wants to learn constantly and enthusiastically from everything they do. You are a prestigeless and humble person with a flexible mindset. You believe in sharing knowledge and working closely with your team to achieve goals. If you possess these qualities, you are the one we’re looking for!

Responsibilities  

You will be working as developer in a small development team dedicated to support a specific area of our business.This team is responsible for both maintenance and enhancing our product offer in this area across the full technology stack from front-end to back-end. As a team member you are expected to develop expert knowledge in your team’s area and work closely with the product lead and business owners to analyse and implement new functionality. You will also work closely with technical operations and business operations as the team is responsible for supporting all daily activities within the area and responsible for all involved platform components.

Our plattform runs as the master system for player accounts behind the www.leovegas.com website and serves thousands of players and processes millions of online transactions each day. 

Our platform is the heart in our business and is responsible for:

Player profile information and player monetary accounts

Game provider integrations for online gaming

Payment system integrations for online payments.

CRM features such as bonus campaigns and loyalty programs

Responsible gaming features such as limits and exclusions

Providing tools for customer support and other back office services.

Integrating with 3rd party systems such as affiliate systems and CRM systems.

Integrating with BI-systems for financial reporting and segmentation.

Integrating with regulatory systems for different markets

Qualifications

We’re looking for a real software craftsman that has significant experience in Java and backend system development. We expect that you have experience with common Java frameworks such as Spring and JPA and is no stranger to working with relational databases such as MySQL. We would love you if you have experience in building highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systems and familiar with architecture principles such as micro-services, CQRS, EDA and EIP-patterns.

Some of the technologies we use in our platform

Java 8, Spring, Jetty, Jersey, Akka, Hazelcast, JPA/Hibernate, MySQL, Protocol Buffers RabbitMQ, Linux, Consul, Jenkins, Ansible, New Relic, ELK

To be totally frank:

We are going to ask you to challenge yourself and your skills on a daily basis

We are going to interrupt you to take on emergency tasks

We are going to always have deadlines looming

BUT….

You will develop your skills immensely and become even better at what you do

You will have incredible co-workers who are willing to work together to meet any goals

You will be a part of revolutionizing the industry and we promise you’ll have fun doing it

You will participate in regular team recreational activities and outings 

And we offer very competitive salaries and benefits

Additional Information

As a part of the Gears of Leo family you will be an important key within a well combined tech-team with an entrepreneurial spirit. We put value in having fast paced and creative environment where every member of our team has the opportunity to grow. We are an organization with a strong cohesion and team spirit who all has the urge to win but at the same time have fun. Our newly renovated offices are located in central Växjö.

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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.