Prime Global Oli Gas Recruitment.com
Lead Developer (1)
Job Description:
We’re one of the most exciting start-ups in the football and gaming industries today, Football INDEX has established a Tradable Market in Football by issuing Virtual Shares in the World’s Top Players for real money. We’ve established a strong product/market fit and are seeing strong revenues and KPIs. We’re licensed and regulated by the UK gambling Commission.
We want a strong lead developer to take a key role as we build out a product development team. The right candidate will evolve into the role of CTO within a 6 months period with our current CTO taking on a consultancy role and remaining in Bangkok
You’ll be:
- Developing a platform that’s under increasing demand as the business grows from having tens of thousands of users to millions of users
- Hiring great developers to work with you in London
- Collaborating with developers in our office in Bangkok
- Helping prioritise, and guiding the product team to an optimal use of time
- Involved with decision making on the product and business at a senior level
- Involved in the build out of our offices, making a great environment to build a great product
- Taking clear steps toward succession planning with our CTO
We think the right person will have:
- Experience building out APIs to support high loads of traffic and transactions
- Experience in JAVA based Continuous Integration methodologies
- Experience in cloud based hosting and deployment.
- Experience in Dev manager, CTO, or team leadership roles
- Experience choosing technologies for rapid scaling in a cost effective way
- A persistent mission oriented attitude, keen to ship things and measure the results
And that you:
- Consider technology in context of the customer, and bring ideas to the conversation about Product Strategy
- Are a trusted leader, keen and able to develop your team’s skills and processes
- Work collaboratively and find good compromises
- Quality customer experiences matter to you
- You care about Lean Product Development and want to focus on delivering features that have a real impact
- You love football and or trading
Our backend is built with Node.js, Redis and Elastic Search on Heroku, and the front end is built with Angular, and a Swift App, so experience of those technologies is very relevant. As a key decision maker on tech strategy, you will be able to influence the future direction of the platform.
Experience working in a regulated sector like betting, banking or payments can be beneficial.