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 around £1Bn 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, Toronto and Sofia.

Our company mission is to make Bede the safest place to play, and this places regulatory compliance firmly at the heart of everything we do. To underpin the needs of our growing business, we are creating a new leadership role, who will be a member of the Bede senior management team, to own various aspects of Bede’s compliance mission.

In addition to a core focus gambling related regulatory concerns, the Global Head of Risk & Compliance will also assume overall responsibility for internal audit, business continuity and risk management within Bede.

Responsibilities

• Play a strategic role in positioning compliance concerns at the heart of Bede’s operation
• Accountable for ensuring Bede’s staffbase is fully engaged with Bede’s mission to create the safest place to play, and understand the critical role that Bede’s tools play in meeting the obligations both on Bede and our customers.
• Develop strong relationships with various state level regulatory bodies to remain at the forefront of the approach to compliance within the fast paced online gaming industry
• Foster relationships with the compliance leaders of Bede’s customers, including ultimate accountability for handling of any compliance related issues
• Take a strategic view on how to evolve Bede’s products and tools to meet the emerging requirements of an online gambling platform
• Remain abreast of the changes made by other non-gambling regulatory bodies who have an impact on Bede and our industry
• Leadership of the compliance and audit teams within Bede
• Develop links with in-country compliance specialists & recruit Bede compliance officers to support Bede’s international expansion
• Present to Bede’s executive team on Risk & Compliance matters
• Prepare submissions for Bede’s board on Risk & Compliance matters
• Hold Personal Management Licences as appropriate for various regulatory bodies
• Chair Bede’s Risk & Compliance board sub-committee

Education, skills & experience

• Outstanding leadership, communication and negotiation skills
• Solid risk management and analytical skillset
• Ability to work in a fast paced, technology-focused environment
• Experience of working at a senior level in risk and compliance within a regulated commercial environment
• Experience in establishing a strong regulatory relationships

Desirable

• Experience in gambling regulations/legislation

Reports to: Managing Director

​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 Bingo team. You’ll be joining the Bingo team at an exciting time as we enter a period of significant investment in our Bingo product. Using your passion for developing high quality solutions, you’ll help to create engaging experiences for players and deliver valuable features for our B2B bingo clients.

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.

Essential

• Full stack experience, preferably Including .NET, C# and SQL Server.
• Good experience of modern Javascript standards and exposure to front end frameworks, especially React (and Redux)
• Confident building responsive mobile first web sites and applications
• Experience with asset build processes and tools such as webpack
• Version Control (Ideally Git)

Nice to have

• Awareness of (automation) testing methodologies
• Experience of continuous delivery and build/deployment automation (TeamCity and/or Octopus Deploy)
• Infrastructure experience
• Experience with Azure web services
• Experience of working in an Agile process using SCRUM techniques.
• Design and optimisation of SQL Server Databases
• Experience in developing web applications in Asp.Net, MVC or ASP.Net Web API
• Knowledge of bingo or social gaming

Personal characteristics

• Passion for delivering quality software solutions
• Self-starter willing and able to take ownership and assume responsibility
• Ability to manage own time, prioritise effectively
• Excellent communication skills at both a technical and non-technical level

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 tens 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 for a motivated individual with a background in ETL, data-integrations and Data Warehousing to join our growing BI team. The BI team at Bede is responsible for maintaining a mature and rich data product. Built primarily on Microsoft SQL Server for storage, utilising Pentaho Data Integration for ETL and hosted in the Microsoft Azure Cloud, the Bede data product suite is designed to enable operators on the Bede Gaming platform to intelligently analyse their data and integrate specialist tooling requiring data into their business process.

This includes:

• Staging raw-data from the Bede platform enterprise service bus in near-real-time into the Bede Data Vault
• Refining the staged data into the Data Warehouse presentation layer
• Supporting a range of low-latency and refined data feeds to operator data ecosystems
• Developing and maintaining high-quality integrations into an operator’s chosen 3rd party tooling, for example CRM, ERP or financial processing systems
• Supporting an out-of-the-box data visualisation tool allowing non-technical business users to easily interrogate Bede’s Data Warehouse

Working in an agile-scrum team, your responsibilities as a BI Engineer would include:

• Collaborating with the team to refine scope and define solutions to business requirements.
• Developing ETLs using the Pentaho Data Integration tool refining Bede platform data and integrations into external services.
• Performing peer-review of other team members’ code
• Supporting the testing of new data flows
• Monitoring and maintaining the data pipeline in pre-production and production environments.

Required skills:

• Thorough understanding of SQL
• Experience working with ETL processes (any off the shelf solutions)
• Ability to interpret complex business requirements

Desirable skills:

• Experience working with Pentaho
• Experience tuning SQL Server
• Demonstrable experience with OLAP concepts & MDX
• Understanding of DataVault pattern
• Experience with Near Real Time Reporting
• Experience in working with Multi Terabyte Data Warehouse projects
• Experience integrating data into 3rd party products such as CRM systems.

Reports to: Head of Data.

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.

Bede Gaming is a leading supplier of software to the online gambling industry. 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 ​Platform Support Engineer​​ to join our Service Delivery Team.

The role of the Platform Support Engineer is to manage, maintain and improve multiple environments hosted in Azure,and to successfully investigate and resolve issues that arise on the Bede platform, working to achieve and exceed agreed SLAs. Working as part of the Bede Service Delivery team, using the ITIL framework and working with the latest technologies, you will be responsible for ensuring that the Bede platform is performant and reliable.

You will also have the opportunity to work with experienced professionals and grow your capabilities and skillsets 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
• Collaborate with others to troubleshoot and resolve escalated production issues
• Proactively identify potential issues, using monitoring solutions, before they become issues, and act 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

Skills, Education, Experience:

• 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, DataDog, New Relic, Icinga, Elastalert or others.
• Experience using scripting + programming languages to automate frequently executed activities
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly to new technology
• ITIL Foundation

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Consul/Service Discovery
• Experience using ELK – ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server

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 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 for a bright and enthusiastic individual with an interest in software development to join our Quality Assurance team. Candidates should be motivated, organised and possess an inquisitive streak so that they can conduct thorough and extensive testing of the sites built on our platform. An interest in automation testing would be an advantage.

The role will involve testing the user-facing aspects of our online gaming software as it’s created. This will
include designing test suites, executing exploratory testing, maintaining test environment stability, and reviewing requirements documentation for completeness. Working as part of a focussed development team, you are tasked with the singular goal of ensuring the creation of the highest quality software possible.

Essential

• Clear communicator (written and verbal) – Ability to write test plans and test cases. To communicate bugs to developers and other stakeholders
• Creative solving of technical problems – Ability to translate technical requirements test plans
• Self management skills – Ability to focus on deadlines, deliverables and manage tasks received from several streams.
• Ability to think abstract – to see a product or system and discover and test edge cases

Nice to have

• Experience of software development and Agile processes
• Experience in quality management software (eg. JIRA)
• Background in programming or other logic based discipline