​Job Title: Software Engineer

Bede Gaming is leading supplier in the online gambling and social industries showing great progress over the last few years. We build world class platforms for the online gambling industry and we power some of the biggest brands globally, working in regulated markets and processing hundreds of millions of transactions per month.

The company is headquartered in the UK and employs a total of 160 people. The Sofia office currently accounts for 40 high quality engineers. We are dedicated to providing an outstanding working atmosphere and making Bede Gaming one of the best places to work.

Bede is passionate about crafting outstanding software. We are strong advocates of continuous integration and won’t be shy if you ask about our test coverage. Bede works on a cutting edge technology stack and isn’t afraid to use the latest tools.

We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic Automation QA Engineer to join one of our development teams. The successful candidate will based in the Sofia office, have a proven track record of experience in testing Client-Server applications and will conduct automation testing of all features developed by the team.

Required​ ​skills:

• 2+ years experience in any object oriented programming language (C# is preferred)
• 3+ years of specialized experience in software testing, data and functionality validation
• Ability to translate business requirements into test cases
• Experience with Git or other version control system
• Ability to drive process improvements
• Outstanding analytical skills and a keen eye for detail

Personal​ ​characteristics:

• Excellent communication skills at both technical and non-technical level
• Passion for delivering quality software solutions
• Work well individually or as part of a team
• Self-starter willing and able to take ownership and assume responsibility
• Ability to manage own time and prioritise effectively

What​ ​we​ ​offer:

• Competitive salary and an opportunity for career growth
• Flexible working hours, 23 days annual leave
• Opportunity to work from home up to 4 days a month
• Social package – vouchers and a gift card
• Supplemental health insurance
• Team buildings and social events
• Friendly working environment

Bede Gaming is leading supplier in the online gambling and social industries showing great progress over the last few years. We build world class platforms for the online gambling industry and we power some of the biggest brands globally, working in regulated markets and processing hundreds of millions of transactions per month.

The company is headquartered in the UK and employs a total of 160 people. The Sofia office currently accounts for 40 high quality engineers. We are dedicated to providing an outstanding working atmosphere and making Bede Gaming one of the best places to work.

Bede is passionate about crafting outstanding software. We are strong advocates of continuous integration and won’t be shy if you ask about our test coverage. Bede works on a cutting edge technology stack and isn’t afraid to use the latest tools.

We are currently looking for Software Developers to join our .NET team. The successful candidates will be based in the Sofia office and have a proven track record of experience in developing .NET web based solutions.

Required​ ​skills:

• 3+ years experience in the .NET Framework Web Stack (ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web
  API)
• Good understanding of OOP and SOLID principles
• Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Good understanding of design patterns
• Experience with HTML5/Javascript/CSS is not required, but will be considered a plus

Personal​ ​characteristics:

• Excellent communication skills at both technical and non-technical level
• Passion for delivering quality software solutions
• Work well individually or as part of a team
• Self-starter willing and able to take ownership and assume responsibility
• Ability to manage own time and prioritise effectively

What​ ​we​ ​offer:

• Competitive salary and an opportunity for career growth
• Flexible working hours, 23 days annual leave
• Opportunity to work from home up to 4 days a month
• Social package – vouchers and a gift card
• Supplemental health insurance
• Team buildings and social events
• Friendly working environment

Site Reliability Engineer

Bede Gaming is a leading supplier of software to the online gambling and social gaming industries. We power some of the biggest brands globally, working in regulated markets and processing hundreds of millions of transactions per month.

Our headquarters are in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the heart of the north-east of England. We also have offices in London and Sofia, Bulgaria.

We are looking to recruit a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Fabric Team. You’ll work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our infrastructure and tools used by our development teams to run the services that make up our platform. We expect that you demonstrate and apply exemplary engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions.

As Bede embraces DevOps culture you’re also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed Agile and DevOps principles in everything we do. We are looking for candidates for both our Newcastle and Sofia offices.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Automate, automate, automate
• Deliver solid infrastructure as code and desired configuration state solutions by
  using automation tools such as Terraform and Puppet
• Design and implement solutions that boost the stability , scalability , performance
  and security of Fabric products
• Support services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability,
  latency and overall system health
• Work towards integrating the delivery of the infrastructure into the CI/CD pipeline,
  including helping to implement automated testing.
• Mentoring / supporting engineers regarding tools, concepts and best practices
• Evangelise DevOps culture of continuous improvement within Bede
• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions with people within and outside the team and
  evolve Fabric products documentation
• Contribute to healthy team culture and engagement in the team’s current
  priorities.
• Escalate any issues and propose solutions for mitigation

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Strong understanding of both Windows and Linux Operating Systems
• Experience with cloud operations and site reliability
• Understanding of emerging technologies and practices for operating modern
  distributed services within the cloud
• Experience with common monitoring systems such as Nagios, Icinga, New Relic.
• Strong understanding of Git
• Experience in using Puppet or other similar tool like Chef, Ansible etc.
• Skilled in one or more scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python, Powershell)
• Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL data store technologies.
• Familiarity with agile development practices, continuous integration and test
  automation
• Desire to continually learn, improve and challenge our current methods of
  operating the Bede platform

DESIRABLE SKILLS: 

• Experience in Terraform or similar
• Experience in Azure
• Experience in Automated Infrastructure Testing (e.g. Beaker, Test Kitchen)
• Understanding of compiled or interpreted programming languages such as C#, Go, Ruby.
• Knowledge of/experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker,  Kubernetes, Nomad etc.

Software Engineer – Site Reliability

Bede Gaming is a leading supplier of software to the online gambling and social gaming industries. We power some of the biggest brands globally, working in regulated markets and processing hundreds of millions of transactions per month.

Our headquarters are in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the heart of the north-east of England. We also have offices in London and Sofia, Bulgaria.

We are looking to recruit a Software Engineer to join our Fabric team.

The successful candidate will display a well rounded and broad knowledge in their use of technologies and have a desire to work within a multi disciplinary team alongside our Site Reliability Engineers helping to drive the Bede platform forward to meet our scalability, stability and performance requirements as Bede expands rapidly.

We want people who are passionate about producing good quality code and keen to contribute positively to the working environment we’ve established at Bede. The role requires good software development skills and an interest in DevOps culture.

We are looking for candidates for both our Newcastle and Sofia offices.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and implement solutions that boost the stability , scalability , performance and security of Fabric products.
• Amend platform components to respect latest Fabric product updates. Components are mostly built on C#.NET, but there are few on F#.NET and Node.js
• Contribute to open source technologies used in Fabric products (like Consul, Terraform, Puppet, etc.)
• Strive to automate and simplify how we work.
• Support services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability,
  latency and overall system health
• Provide guidance and coaching to developments teams around the usage of and
  contribution to Fabric products
• Evangelise DevOps culture of continuous improvement within Bede
• Conduct knowledge sharing sessions with people within and outside the team and
  evolve Fabric products documentation
• Contribute to healthy team culture and engagement in the team’s current priorities
• Escalate any issues and propose solutions for mitigation

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• A minimum of 2 years experience using .Net and C# based applications
• Dependency Injection (Ideally autofac)
• Unit Testing (Ideally Nunit)
• Version Control (Ideally Git)
• Excellent practical knowledge of OOP concepts and SOLID principles
• Solid understanding of HTTP and RESTful design
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL
• Cloud experience
• Experience of working in a Continuous Deployment Setting
• Familiarity with TeamCity or similar build tools
• Deep understanding of Microservice Architectures and their pros and cons
• Experience of working in an Agile process using SCRUM techniques.
• Desire to continually learn, improve and challenge our current methods of
  operating the Bede platform

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

• Experience in one or more other languages (e.g. Go, Python, Javascript)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and its benefits
• Knowledge of Desired State Configuration and its benefits
• Experience with Azure
• Experience with container technologies