Software Engineer (Data Delivery Team)
Playtech's IMS Data Delivery Team is looking for a skilled Software Engineer with strong technical expertise and problem-solving abilities. The engineer will design, build, test, debug, and operate reliable features in Java, Vue, and other stacks as required by the product. This role involves working on information systems and integrations, including APIs, messaging, and data consistency, with clear ownership of failure modes and production behaviour.
The engineer will leverage approved AI-assisted development to increase speed, defining, reviewing, and validating all merged code to the same standard as hand-written code. Contributions will be made to automated testing, code review, and documentation that extends beyond a single chat session. The role also includes extending and improving existing codebases, collaborating in agile delivery with the lead, product team, and peers, and taking ownership of assigned areas to help improve team practices safely. Participation in the team's on-call rotation is expected, involving responding to production incidents, troubleshooting issues, and maintaining the reliability and stability of services.
- Design, build, test, debug, and operate reliable features in Java, Vue, and other stacks when the product requires it.
- Work on information systems and integrations - APIs, messaging, data consistency - with clear ownership of failure modes and production behaviour.
- Use approved AI-assisted development to move faster; define, review, and validate what you merge (same bar as hand-written code).
- Contribute to automated testing, code review, and documentation that outlives a single chat session.
- Extend and improve existing codebases, not only greenfield demos.
- Collaborate in agile delivery with your lead, product, and peers; take ownership of your areas; help improve team practices safely.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation, responding to production incidents, troubleshooting issues, and helping maintain the reliability and stability of our services.
- Have professional experience building backend or full-stack software in a commercial or product team (required).
- Show solid software fundamentals that you can explain, including runtime behaviour, relational databases and SQL, debugging with evidence, applied data structures, and complexity awareness (required).
- Demonstrate information systems thinking, including source of truth, concurrent updates, integration partial failure, and idempotency where relevant (required).
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, and contribute meaningfully to code reviews (required).
- Demonstrate a willingness to learn on the job, including Spring/Vue conventions, Kafka and internal platforms, new frameworks, and approved AI tooling and workflows (required).
- Take ownership of assigned areas, collaborate effectively as part of a team, and communicate clearly in English (required).
- Respect data classification and security requirements, and understand what information must not be shared with external AI tools (required).
- Production experience with Java (Spring) and/or Vue (nice-to-have).
- Kafka or similar asynchronous integration (nice-to-have).
- Experience modernising or extending large, long-lived codebases (nice-to-have).
- Full-stack delivery across API and UI (nice-to-have).
- Concrete stories of AI-assisted work where you verified outcomes (tests, review, operational safety) (nice-to-have).
- Professional and fun team environment, where Playtech offers proper training and knowledge sharing.
- Support for your personal and professional growth.
- Variety – no day is the same.
- Active lifestyle and provision of a well-being package.
- Work-life balance and flexibility.
- Fun and engaging company events.
Playtech plc is one of the world's largest gambling technology companies, providing software, platforms and content to online and land-based operators. Founded in 1999 and registered in the Isle of Man, it supplies casino, live casino, sportsbook, bingo and poker products, along with its IMS player-management platform. The company also runs B2C operations, most notably the Snaitech business in Italy. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Playtech employs thousands of people across offices worldwide.