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WORK AT BEDE GAMING

We have on open culture. We’re passionate about what we do and love sharing ideas.

We offer a superb package and benefits as well as loads of other more important stuff like free food, free mobile phone, free lunches, 10% time, break out days, regular nights out and awesome parties.

WE LIKE

Awesome people, agile engineering, Slack chat, elegant code, autonomous, teams, rapid release cycles, Github, continuous delivery, automation testing, feature switching, brown bag lunches, Hackathons, good coffee.

WE DON'T LIKE

Corporate BS, politics, fear of failure, bad code, slow delivery, dress down Fridays, bad coffee.

We’re growing fast and want talented people to join us

These are some of the roles that we have open at the moment, but if you don’t fit into any of the boxes and feel you can offer us something then you should still get in touch.

Maybe you’re a smart creative type who knows you can do great things but haven’t quite found your niche? We like anyone who pushes boundaries and can think outside the box.

Why wait? Apply for your dream job today: careers@bedegaming.com

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1.Platform Support 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, Bulgaria and Canada.

We are looking to recruit a passionate and enthusiastic Platform Support Engineer to join our Service Delivery team. This successful candidate will be delivering a world class service to major clients, supporting Bede’s applications, platform and Azure infrastructure. This is a great opportunity to work with experienced professionals and grow your capabilities and skill sets in a fast moving and dynamic environment. This is a complex and varied role in a rapidly growing team that would suit an individual wanting to develop and challenge themselves, and wants the opportunity to influence change and development.

Responsibilities

Manage and support Bede’s infrastructure and applications
Maintenance and configuration of source controlled environments
Design and maintain monitoring, measuring and alerting systems
Progression and Resolution of incident within SLA
Collaborate with others to troubleshoot and resolve escalated production issues
Proactively identify potential issues, using monitoring solutions, before they become issues, and mact to resolve
Identify, and document changes would be required to enable to resolve such issues in the future
Work with engineering teams to implement support for pre-existing and new Bede products, providing engineering teams with assistance in identifying and adopting operational concerns
Ensure the Bede Platform is performant and reliable
Training and support of new team members.
Identify and document missing processes, procedures and knowledge base articles

Education, skills, experience

Passionate
Driven to succeed
Understanding of APIs and Cloud technologies specifically Azure
Experience with Cloud provisioning tools such as Terraform
Strong understanding of both Windows and Linux Operating Systems
Configuration management of Linux and windows systems using tools such as Puppet, Docker etc.
Experience in developing Puppet code, Puppet Modules and Hiera Version Control Systems (GIT, GitHub)
Understanding of NoSQL – Redis etc
Monitoring tools: Nagios, Icinga, Elastalert, Grafana, Prometheus or others.
Experience using scripting & programming languages to automate frequently executed activities
Ability to learn and adapt quickly to new technology
Self-starter

Applicants will have experience delivering a support service to external customers ideally in a digital or online environment. A strong technical understanding of cloud based technologies would be an advantage. ITIL certification would be desirable but it not essential.

Aptitude and attitude is everything for this role, and only those with a real passion to deliver a world class service need apply.

Reports to: Service Desk Duty Manager

2.Software Engineer (Front End)

We are looking to expand our Portal team and are looking for a front end software engineer with excellent technical & communication skills to join the existing team. We are looking for people who are passionate about producing good quality products and keen to contribute positively to our products and sites. This is a very exciting opportunity to work with modern tools to maintain and deliver compelling user experiences against our RESTful platform API, with our current toolstack consisting of technologies such as ES6, SASS & websockets.

Needed:

Experience of modern standards for HTML, CSS (SASS), and Javascript.
Experience with RESTful web services and JSON
Confident building responsive mobile first web sites and applications
Experience with asset build processes and tools
Knowledge of version control with Git
Adherence to web standards and best practices for user-experience and accessibility
Confident providing code reviews and sharing knowledge
Experience problem solving and debugging
Experience writing clean, lean and scalable Front End code
Be comfortable with completing individual tasks, as well as collaborating with a team.

Nice to Have:

Awareness of testing methodologies
Experience using Javascript MVC Frameworks
Basic understanding of back-end technologies, e.g. C#, ASP.NET MVC, IIS
Knowledge of development lifecycle
Experience with / understanding of the Orchard CMS platform.
Experience of working in an Agile process using SCRUM techniques.

Responsibilities:

Contributing to the Scrum team
Develop new user-facing features
Build reusable code and libraries for future use
Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
Optimize features and sites for maximum speed and scalability
Contributing to product documentation and knowledge base
Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders as part of scrum team
Provide quality feedback to development team and stakeholders

3.Software Engineer (UK & Bulgaria)

Job Title: Software 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 Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Platform team.

The successful candidate will display a well rounded and broad approach to their use of technologies on both the front and back end. 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.

Skills required:

A minimum of 2 years experience using .Net and C# based applications
Experience in developing web applications in Asp.Net, MVC or ASP.Net Web API
Design and optimisation of SQL Server Databases
Dependency Injection (Ideally autofac)
Unit Testing (Ideally Nunit)
Version Control (Ideally Git)
Creation and use of a RESTful interface (Web API)
Experience of modern Javascript standards and some exposure to front end frameworks, especially backbone, angular & react
Server side experience using node.js
Experience with Azure web services
Experience of working in a Continuous Deployment Setting
Familiarity with TeamCity and/or Octopus Deploy
Experience of working in an Agile process using SCRUM techniques.

Personal characteristics:

Passion for delivering quality software solutions
Must work well individually or as part of a team, irrespective of team size
Self-starter willing and able to take ownership and assume responsibility
Ability to manage own time, prioritise effectively and meet tight deadlines
Excellent communication skills at both a technical and non-technical level

4.Automation QA 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 passionate and enthusiastic Automation QA Engineer. The successful candidate will conduct automation testing of all upcoming features developed by the team throughout different components of the Bede platform as well as maintain any existing automated tests under the team’s remit.

Required skills

1+ years experience in any object oriented programming language (C# is preferred)
2+ 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

BEDE CASE STUDIES

An aspiring dressage rider, an artificial intelligence graduate and a former teacher are among the team to have joined fast-growing Bede Gaming recently. All sorts of exciting paths have been taken to join Bede and add to our thriving company dynamic and culture. Read on for more on our talented team…

Alastair Hogg - Market Analyst

Alastair started this role as a graduate, having completed a Business Management degree followed by an E-Commerce Masters at Newcastle University. “Having made the most of student life, I love the passionate, friendly and open culture at Bede. In particular, the ‘fail fast and learn quick culture’ which makes decision making and learning far less stressful and more enjoyable”. A keen basketball player, you’ll see Alastair ‘aiming high’ outside of work, as well as enjoying a good kick about with the Bede footy team!

Steve Close - Product Owner

Originally a teacher specialising in media and games design, Steve decided to change career paths and join the exciting team at Bede! “Although I thoroughly enjoyed teaching, after several years in the profession I feared to become complacent, I wanted to push myself and sought a fresh, exciting challenge. Bede provided me with the opportunity to develop and apply my existing skillset and experience in a new role and dynamic industry. Bede are a company who actively encourage you to explore your interests, learn and grow. With a ‘give it a go’ and ‘don't be afraid to fail’ mentality ingrained throughout the business, it made a potentially scary career move into an exciting and empowering one.”

Sarah Denholm - Delivery Manager

Sarah Denholm was snapped up by Bede as one of our Delivery Managers. Previously a project manager, Sarah in the past has managed the delivery of artwork for new films at VUE cinemas. Outside of work Sarah is an aspiring dressage rider and we hope to see Sarah representing for team GB one day! “I love working for Bede as they love to bring new ideas to life and be one step ahead within the market. There are so many opportunities within the company to further develop skills and expertise in all areas”.

Amila Prabandhika, .Net Developer

Amila Prabandhika, relocated from Malaysia after gaining a bachelor’s degree in artificial intelligence and then went on to do a master’s degree in advanced computer science in Newcastle where he was snapped up by Bede Gaming. Amila works as one of Bede’s .Net Developers, “Bede is the best place to work in the North East as the technology culture is to always keep updating. This means developers get an excellent chance to find out how new technologies will benefit various platforms.”