Senior Software Engineer

at  Kindred Group

About Kindred
Kindred Group is a digital entertainment pioneer bringing together nine successful online gambling brands, forming one of the largest online gambling groups in the world. Our purpose is to transform gambling by being a trusted source of entertainment that contributes positively to society. Our goal is that 0% revenue is derived from harmful gambling.
Our global team of more than 2000 people represents 70+ nationalities. When you join Kindred, you’ll be part of a collaborative, diverse and inclusive team that has your best interest at heart. We are a trusting company that knows the value of a healthy work-life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits, along with a hybrid working model which allows flexibility between working from home and enjoying our superb office facilities.
The role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you are a core team member on whom the team relies to consistently deliver high quality solutions. You take ownership to help the team reach their goals, including actively sharing knowledge and providing feedback. You can identify and initiate activities to address improvement areas within the team. With a mature view on technical governance you have a long term perspective of the team’s components and applications.

What you will do

• Develops high quality code using the most appropriate techniques e.g. design patterns
• Designs solutions to meet the requirements (business and tech). Able to challenge and proactively suggest improvement to requirements
• Contributes to best practice, pro-actively looks to improve status quo e.g. can the team improve logging, performance testing etc.
• Focused and engaged in team commitments, takes ownership to help the team reach their goals
• Constructively critique 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)
• Confidently makes decisions affecting the team

Your skills, knowledge and experience

• Can work independently and writes high quality code using appropriate techniques creating performant solutions
• You have experience working with different systems and architectures which you can draw on to contribute to the solutions in your team.
• 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
• Experienced 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
• Experienced in working with agile practices and able to suggest improvements to the team’s process
• Maintain the team’s CI/CD pipelines
• Use appropriate code analysis tools to improve code quality and security

Our Way Of Working
Our world is hybrid.
A career is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. One of the perks of joining us is that we value you as a person first. Our hybrid world allows you to focus on your goals and responsibilities and lets you self-organise to improve your deliveries and get the work done in your own way.
Application Process
Click on the “” button and complete the short web form. Please add your CV and covering letter in English to let us know your motivation for applying and your salary expectation. Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch soon. Kindred is an equal opportunities employer committed to employing a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. As such we oppose all forms of discrimination in the workplace. We create equal opportunities for all our applicants and will treat people equally regardless of and not limited to, gender, ages, disability, race, sexual orientation. We are committed not only to our legal obligations but also to the positive promotion that equal opportunities bring to our operations as set out in our sustainability framework. Kindred has an ESG rating of AAA by MCSI.

• Develops high quality code using the most appropriate techniques e.g. design patterns
• Designs solutions to meet the requirements (business and tech). Able to challenge and proactively suggest improvement to requirements
• Contributes to best practice, pro-actively looks to improve status quo e.g. can the team improve logging, performance testing etc.
• Focused and engaged in team commitments, takes ownership to help the team reach their goals
• Constructively critique 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)
• Confidently makes decisions affecting the tea