Company Description
About Playtech
Founded in 1999, the company has a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is focused on regulated and regulating markets across its B2B and B2C businesses. Both divisions leverage Playtech’s proprietary technology to deliver innovative products and services to ensure a safe, engaging and entertaining betting and gaming experience.
Playtech is the gambling industry's leading technology company delivering business intelligence-driven gambling software, services, content, and platform technology across the industry's most popular product verticals, including, casino, live casino, sports betting, bingo and poker. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtech.com & www.playtechpeople.com
Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Recognizing differences and ensuring our processes are transparent is the core of Playtech’s overall commitment to responsible business practices.
Ready to level up your career?
Playtech's Gpas unit is looking for an experienced Scala Developer with excellent engineering skills.
Job Description
Your influential mission. You will...
- Participate in software design, development, refactoring, support, and code reviews to maintain high development standards
- Collaborate with platform teams to deliver great results
- Work autonomously on your tasks with little or no supervision
- Optimize the platform to achieve maximum throughput and scalability
- Be proactive and go beyond expectations
Qualifications
Components for success. You...
- Have strong experience developing server-side in Scala for at least 2 years
- Understand JVM, data structures, and algorithms
- Possess excellent knowledge of parallel and concurrent programming
- Have experience with Pekko Http, Actor, Cluster, Persistence, and Streams
- Have proven experience developing high-scale distributed systems with complex interfaces and integrations
- Exhibit an engineering mindset: self-motivated, initiative, quick learner, team player, critical thinker
- Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving prowess
- Have a desire to document and share knowledge with colleagues
- Communicate well in English
You'll get extra points for...
- Couchbase
- AWS S3 and DynamoDB
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Linux
Thrive in a culture that values...
- Possibility to work with a product company
- Personalised professional growth
- Warm and friendly attitude to every specialist
- Educational possibilities
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Medical insurance
- Fully-equipped cosy office space located in the city centre (Gulliver, “Palats Sportu” metro station)
- Flexible work format - remote, office-based or mixed
- Paid vacation days, sick leaves and national holidays
- Corporate events and team buildings
Additional Information
GPAS TEAM
Gaming Platform as a Service aka GPAS is Playtech’s exclusive distributed games delivery platform that currently has more than 1000 games running on it.
GPAS is a highly accessible, multi-tenant, scalable, distributed and event-driven system written in Scala with the help of the Akka framework.
We use Couchbase as a hot storage and AWS S3/DynamoDB as our cold storage to ensure we can handle nearly a billion transactions per day.
We have a complex solution that provides capabilities to run a variety of different slot, and multiplayer games and our architecture supports an extension to support other types of games.
We adopt Scrum methodology to deliver new features on time.
Tech stack:
- Sbt, Scala 3
- Pekko(http, actor, cluster, persistence, streams, connectors)
- Typesafe config
- Couchbase
- AWS S3 and DynamoDB
- Play Json
- Scalatest
- Docker + Nomad or K8s
Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.
Top Skills
What We Do
Founded in 1999 and premium listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech is a technology leader in the gambling industry with over 7300 employees in 19 countries
Playtech is the gambling industry’s leading software and services supplier and partners with many of the world’s leading regulated online, retail and mobile operators, land-based casino groups, government sponsored entities such as lotteries, and new entrants opening operations in newly-regulated markets. Its business intelligence-driven gambling software offering includes casino, live casino, bingo, poker and sports betting.
We are the pioneers of Omni-channel gambling which, through Playtech ONE, offers operators and their customers, a seamless, anytime, anywhere experience across any product, any channel (online, mobile, retail) and any device using a single account and single wallet. It provides marketing expertise, sophisticated CRM solutions and other services for operators seeking a full turnkey solution.
The company has won numerous awards including the prestigious Gaming Intelligence Game of the Year award 2018 for its Age of the Gods games that includes slots, table games and live casino.
Alongside our own cutting-edge gaming studios and content we license some of the world's most popular brands from Hollywood studios including Warner Bros. Consumer Products on behalf of DC Entertainment, Paramount, Fox, NBC Universal, MGM and many more.
Playtech Financials operates both on a B2C and B2B basis. Our B2C focused offering is an established and growing online CFDs broker, operating the brand markets.com. Our B2B offering includes the division's proprietary trading platform, CRM and back-office systems, as well as its liquidity technology platform which provides retail brokers with multi-asset execution, prime brokerage services, liquidity and complementary risk management tools.
If you are an ambitious, creative thinker and would like to work for us we want to hear from you!
