Quality Assurance Engineer Mid 1
About Betfair Romania Development
Betfair Romania Development is the largest technology hub of Flutter Entertainment, with over 2,000 people powering the world’s leading sports betting and iGaming brands. Exciting, immersive and safe experiences are delivered to over 18 million customers worldwide, from our office in Cluj-Napoca. Driven by relentless innovation and commitment to excellence, we operate our own unbeatable portfolio of diverse proprietary brands such as FanDuel, PokerStars, SportsBet, Betfair, Paddy Power, or Sky Betting & Gaming.
Our Values
The values we share at Betfair Romania Development define what makes us unique as a team. They empower us by giving meaning to our contributions, and they ensure that we consistently strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for passionate individuals who align with our values and are committed to making a difference.
Win together | Raise the bar | Got your back | Own it | Positive impact
About Flutter Functions
The Flutter Functions division is a key component of Flutter Entertainment, responsible for providing essential support and services across the organization. The division encompasses various corporate functions, including finance, legal, human resources, technology, and more, ensuring seamless operations and strategic alignment throughout the company.
Role Overview
You are enthusiastic, motivated and willing to make your mark. You have engineering skills and a passion for technology. You have experience with technologies such as Java, http, event streaming (Kafka) and build tools (e.g. Maven).
You have used dependency injection and inversion of control in previous projects.
Our engineers enable us to offer world class experiences to our customers. They are technical experts and contributors to the solutions and architecture of our systems. We encourage them to get involve in the business aspects of the the products we deliver.
The systems we develop and maintain are serving millions of users. Our technology supports the continuous growth of our business, so we must deliver outstanding quality and performance. You need to have good technical and problem-solving skills and a pragmatic, can-do attitude to thrive in this role.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain software solutions in accordance with open source & co-creation models
- Adhere to community standards and collaborative development practices.
- Have knowledge of secure coding and adhere to good coding practices
- Understand the dependencies between components and how they combine to deliver service to the consumer and business
- Recognize system deficiencies and implement effective solutions
- Look out for alternative methodologies that may be more efficient and actively improve the tooling used
- Be able to identify common concerns to encourage code reuse
- Be familiar with multiple software development methodologies and actively contribute to team and group meetings
- Minimize manual processes and provide automated solutions
- Confidently approaches to large pieces of work which span multiple components and teams
- Tackle tasks by researching and weighing up the pros and cons of various routes to select the right approach
- Be an expert in your primary programming language, and develop hands on competence in others
- Implement robust solutions that work across multiple channels, platforms and browsers
- Evaluate the impact of changes and deliver improvements to your function, area or product
- Use your experience to deliver reviews of changes
- Consider alternative solutions to problems
- Periodically review stats and assess system capabilities considering findings
- Follow QA best practice across multiple components and projects, to ensure that changes do not happen unwantedly
- Align development tasks with business priorities, effectively communicating delivery timelines and proactively managing expectations
- Model high complexity problems - always considering load capacity, system reliability and availability
- Encourage appropriate use of reusability techniques (e.g. design patterns, library extraction, new component creation)
- Support and mentor junior colleagues
- Demonstrate understanding of applications and the implications of making changes to them
- Look out for potential problems to avoid incidents and take ownership of issues with minimal support or guidance
- Be able to debug the applications you own and actively pursue root cause analysis
- Make sure that recurrence of incidents is minimized by applying appropriate immediate actions and consider long-term solutions
Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required
- This position involves working with and being part of a cross-skilled development team and will have regular contact with teams looking after other aspects of our products & tools.
- This role necessitates collaboration with engineers from various cultural and professional backgrounds. Strong interpersonal skills, including understanding different perspectives and cultural and situational awareness are highly valued for effectively navigating cross-functional interactions and fostering productive working relationships.
- Adhere to our core values:
- Relentless will to win: We strive to stay ahead of the game and achieve more for our customers and each other
- Collaboration: We win by having the best people, working well together, and building strong relationships
- Integrity: We take pride in doing what's right. No exceptions
- Agility: We adapt at pace and with purpose, and thrive amid change
- Low Ego: We take our work seriously but not ourselves, and never believe our own hype
- Adhere to our cultural pillars:
- Customer Obsessed: we lead the market by creating deep customer loyalty. We do this by delivering product and experiences our customers love
- Outcome Focused: we are ruthlessly focused on the business outcomes we prioritise. We always see things through and judge ourselves against the impact not the input
- Openly Curious: we challenge ourselves to think differently, and we experiment to find new and disruptive ways to solve problems. We take the time to reflect and listen to others to ensure we continuously improve.
- Future Ready: Demonstrating curiosity and openness toward AI and emerging technologies, with a willingness to continuously learn, adapt, share knowledge and collaborate with AI tools in your day to day activity.
Benefits
- Hybrid & remote working option
- €1,000 per year for self-development
- Company share scheme
- 25 days of annual leave per year
- 20 days per year to work abroad
- 5 personal days/year
- Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
- Extended health, dental and travel insurances
- Customized well-being programmes
- Career growth sessions
- Thousands of online courses through Udemy
- A variety of engaging office events
Disclaimer
We are an inclusive employer. By embracing diverse experiences and perspectives, we create a lasting, positive impact for our employees, customers, and the communities we’re part of. 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.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only the candidates who best meet the job requirements will be contacted for an interview.
By submitting your application online, you agree that your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than three years, to consider you for prospective roles within the company.