Senior Java Developer

About Us

At FDJ UNITED, we don't just follow the game, we reinvent it.

FDJ UNITED is 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. If you thrive on innovation, embrace challenges, and want to make a real impact at all levels, FDJ UNITED is your playing field.

Join us in shaping the future of gaming. Are you ready to LEVEL-UP THE GAME?

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.
• Ensure that you adhere to the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) obligations for your role.
• Identify and raise any non-compliance incidents promptly to your line manager.
• Challenge processes, policies and projects that will negatively impact compliance within the Group.
• Complete all mandatory compliance training assigned to you.
• Reach out to the Compliance Teams if unsure of any of your compliance obligations or the requirements are unclear.

Your 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

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 as the age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation, neurodiversity or disability.