As Principal Engineer you are responsible for autonomously overseeing the entire lifecycle of highly complex projects and features, encompassing design, development, and deployment within the team. You hold the responsibility for meticulous planning and on-schedule delivery within your team, establishing themselves as the go-to authority for systems, infrastructure, and design decisions.
You will report to the Head of Engineer you will be part of the Product & Tech India Team, who work closely with the Technology & Product and other key stakeholders. Our team innovates quickly and works closely with our commercial partners and customers in a very agile, high-energy environment.
Are you ready to be part of our journey to be crowned the undisputed champions of the sports betting, gaming, and interactive entertainment industry?
Key Responsibilities:
- Work on challenging the tech status quo and provide solutions to propose improvements, automation, and tech modernization.
- Enhances architecture and code structure to promote testability and maintainability.
- Analyzes the broader technical picture, bottlenecks, dependencies, influence and/or synergies with other components or parts of the system
- Build high-quality, clean, scalable, and reusable code by enforcing best practices around software engineering architecture and processes.
- Develop & contribute towards architectural principles, methodologies, and standards for various IT groups.
- Manages security risks flagged by available security tools in the pipeline and ensures that security measures are integrated when delivering solutions.
- Stay up to date with the latest trends and advancements in technologies and recommend their adoption when appropriate.
- Assumes accountability for ensuring that their team maintains robust documentation and records detailing the evolution of design and architecture over time (e.g., RFCs, ADRs).
- Prioritizes and values work that may be undervalued but significantly enhances predictability, quality, and delivery throughput.
- Work with other PEs, POs, and SETLs on broader initiatives, help with the decomposition of the high-level requirements, defining MVP.
- Make work prioritization decisions based on a clear understanding of the trade-offs between quality, technical debt, and timely delivery.
- Actively engages in prioritizing cross-team initiatives and assumes a leadership role in those initiatives within their teams
Qualifications
- Proficient in TypeScript, solid JavaScript understanding, proficiency in navigating the event loop.
- Proficient in Angular and its design principles; familiar with React, Vue, and with 10+ years of experience in Web development.
- Proficient in advanced usage of tools like Angular CLI, Nx, Webpack, and Gulp.
- Solid understanding of .NET framework, .NET Core, and C# programming; adept at multiple programming languages and paradigms.
- Experience and a good understanding of async and parallel programming (synchronization primitives, async/await, tasks cancellation, synchronization context) in .net
- Proficient in Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns; capable of selecting the right solution based on constraints.
- Expertise in designing and implementing comprehensive testing strategies covering unit, integration, end-to-end, flow tests, UI testing automation.
- Proficient in performance profiling and optimization techniques: web vitals, lazy loads, build size reduction, API latency optimization, HTTP2 usage, GraphQL.
- Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, and advanced architectural patterns.
- Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and user-centered design approaches.
- Advanced in APIs/Web Service Integration, implementing security principles, and conducting security tests.
- Proficient in setting up Application Monitoring and Logging, end-to-end tracing, and monitoring dashboards.
- Advanced skills in Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Automation & Orchestration; proficient in containerization of applications, and automated deployments on Kubernetes using Helm, Kustomize, etc.
Desired:
- Experience of working within the Betting and Gaming Industry.
- Stakeholder engagement: Builds effective working relationships
- Collaboration: Communicates effectively with a positive impact
- Builds capability: Invests in developing oneself (and others)
- Analytical thinking: Thinks critically, providing well-reasoned insights through a commercial lens
- Sets direction: Contributes to a clear direction for the business
- Agility: Quickly adapts and remains flexible while managing risks
- Drives performance: Continually raises the bar for oneself (and others)
Additional information
At Ivy, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning. Working for us in [insert location of role], you can expect to receive great benefits like:
- Safe home pickup and home drop (Hyderabad Office Only)
- Group Mediclaim policy
- Group Critical Illness policy
- Communication & Relocation allowance
- Annual Health check
And outside of this, you’ll have the chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes. Join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supportive community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves.
Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.
At Ivy, we do what’s right. It’s one of our core values and that’s why we're taking the lead when it comes to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive future - for our people, and the wider global sports betting and gaming sector. However you identify, across any protected characteristic, our ambition is to ensure our people across the globe feel valued, respected and their individuality celebrated.
