Principal Software Engineer, Java

About Us

At FDJ UNITED, we don't just follow the game, we reinvent it.

FDJ UNITED is one of Europe’s leading betting and gaming operators, with a vast portfolio of iconic brands and a reputation for technological excellence. With more than 5,000 employees and a presence in around fifteen regulated markets, the Group offers a diversified, responsible range of games, both under exclusive rights and open to competition. We set new standards, proving that entertainment and safety can go hand in hand. Here, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to delivering the best and safest entertaining experiences for our customers every day.

We’re looking for bold people who are eager to succeed and ready to level-up the game. If you thrive on innovation, embrace challenges, and want to make a real impact at all levels, FDJ UNITED is your playing field.

Join us in shaping the future of gaming. Are you ready to LEVEL-UP THE GAME?

Our Tech Stack

Essential hands-on experience is required in the tech stack listed below. Note:

Persistence layer and Event driven, good experience and understanding in any similar technology will be considered.

• Java & Spring Boot
• Persistence layer
• Transactions management
• Oracle, Couchbase (or similar e.g. MongoDB)
• JPA / Hibernate
• Event driven architecture
• JMS / Spring Cloud Streams
• Solace / Kafka (or similar e.g. RabbitMQ)
• Platform
• Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
• Logs & metrics
• Splunk, InfluxDB, Grafana
• Agile and lean values

To excel in this role, we believe you…

• Find the description of this role exciting and want to build scalable software in a distributed architecture
• Are passionate about solving challenging problems in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment
• Have commercial experience working as a Java Backend Developer/Engineer
• Have experience with Spring/Spring Boot
• Are passionate about, and have knowledge in software development best practices

In addition, you..

• Are a positive person by nature and have a passion for what you do, putting teamwork and collaboration above all else.
• Have great communication skills and appreciate a culture where feedback sharing is encouraged to achieve not only to the success of the team, but also seen as essential to the improvement of personal and professional development.
• Take great pride in your ability to grasp complex business scenarios and translate them into solutions with clean and performant code.
• Believe in yourself and your own abilities, but also appreciate that there is an endless ocean of new things to learn and take on board, cherishing the opportunity to do so.
• Ensure that you adhere to the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) obligations for your role.
• Identify and raise any non-compliance incidents promptly to your line manager.
• Challenge processes, policies and projects that will negatively impact compliance within the Group.
• Complete all mandatory compliance training assigned to you.
• Reach out to the Compliance Teams if unsure of any of your compliance obligations or the requirements are unclear.
• Ensure that you adhere to the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) obligations for your role.
• Identify and raise any non-compliance incidents promptly to your line manager.
• Challenge processes, policies and projects that will negatively impact compliance within the Group.
• Complete all mandatory compliance training assigned to you.
• Reach out to the Compliance Teams if unsure of any of your compliance obligations or the requirements are unclear.

And if you come with following experiences we will be thrilled!

• · Understanding of secure development and knowledge/certification of OWASP/SNYK
• · Have experience with event driven systems.

Our Way Of Working

Our world is hybrid.

A career is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. One of the perks of joining us is that we value you as a person first. Our hybrid world allows you to focus on your goals and responsibilities and lets you self-organise to improve your deliveries and get the work done in your own way.

Application Process

We believe talent knows no boundaries. Our hiring process focuses solely on your skills, experience, and potential to contribute to our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and evaluate each candidate based on merit, regardless of personal characteristics as the age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation, neurodiversity or disability.