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RecruitGibraltar are currently recruiting for a Principal Software Developer (PHP &Node.js) to join a household name in the Online Gaming Sector based in Sheffield, who have an excellent reputation in their field of expertise. They are a forward thinking Company and seek employees who have the same drive and motivation in their chosen career. Their desire to retain their market leading position means that all aspects of their business model are managed with a view to being the best and providing an outstanding working environment for their staff in all their locations.

The Company

They have created the kind of workplace that wins awards such as a place on the prestigious list of Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. So grab a cup of “posh” coffee and catch up with your team before the daily standup. Then get your head into the zone, working closely alongside the other engineers, testers and ops in your squad. When you need a break you can go to one of our break out areas or even have a game of table tennis.

What will you do as a Software Developer (PHP & Node.js)?

You'll be working with a wide range of technologies covering the full stack on platforms that are constantly evolving. Amongst other things they use PHP, Couchbase, and Node.js. They are always looking to improve, so if you know how they can put some cool new tech to work then they will be all ears.
You will work on scaling up systems to thousands of requests per second while still maintaining response times in the milliseconds while simultaneously introducing new first to market products such as Apple Pay.
As a principal software engineer lead the technical delivery of core components of an entirely new customer account platform. Supporting processes including registration, login, payment and transactions we will deliver a system that is flexible, reliable, scalable and secure whilst handling daily traffic consisting of millions of requests.
Leading a squad of other developers, operations and test engineers you will not only design, implement and support the service you build but enable those around you to do the same.

What do you know that makes you a great Software Developer (PHP & Node.js)?

You will need to demonstrate very high levels of skill in the PHP or Java it’s libraries and runtimes
Any experience with JavaScript, Node.js, React and Redux is an advantage
Experience with Java application frameworks outside of the J2EE sphere is a strong advantage but not essential, for example Spring, Dropwizard and Play
Experience in other JVM based languages such as Scala and Clojure with the ability to assess their merits with respect to specific domain requirements is useful.

Salary £50k to £60k based on experience with bonus plus an excellent package covering everything you can think of.