Senior Software Architect Jobs

Company Description
OpenBet is sport. The world's top sports betting brands choose OpenBet as their partner for world-class content, leading tech, and tailored services. We have their back. So they’re ready with exciting, memorable, and safe sports betting experiences, to entertain millions of players worldwide.
OpenBet’s mission is to power growth and player engagement for operators through a global betting ecosystem that delivers at scale, at speed, at every great sports event. Our 1000 talented colleagues are the market's top team. We achieve billions of bets in a season; 60,000+ per second (more transactions than Amazon on Prime Day); 100% uptime (zero Superbowl crashes!) and we're built on 25 years of imaginative technology that is iterated daily.
OpenBet has established a premium client base of more than 75 operators worldwide and has 34 licenses across the fastest growing regulated sports betting markets in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The team is growing at scale driven by accelerated demand for our products and significant investment. We offer the speed, dynamism, and growth opportunities of a start-up, underpinned by the stability and strength of a global employer.
Working at OpenBet every day is an opportunity for you to create exciting betting entertainment for millions of sports fans across the globe.
Want to be part of our evolving future growth?

• Work with the operational support teams to ensure existing and new products are in a position to be supported
• Regular reviews of design documentation, taking ownership of keeping it pertinent
• Keep up to date with current technologies and trends to prevent missed opportunities
• Work proactively with the product and engineering teams to ensure the continuous and measurable repayment of technical debt
• Respond to product roadmap requests from the business / product team with design on best to implement, calling out risks and associated mitigations 
• Hands on coaching and mentoring of the engineering team breeding a culture of proactive, collaborative design
• Present the case for solutions designed with external products, and see their implementation through to completion.
• Work with the engineering team as well as other Architects to define architectural documentation standards to ensure knowledge transfer and easy on-boarding of new starters
• Work with the wider team to define, document and maintain a set of non-functional requirements that existing and new products will be measured against 
• Setup and chair design review forums for the vertical, ensuring the process is communicated as well as adhered to, and design decisions are clearly captured
• Work with the engineering teams to assist in the creation of proofs-of-concept to demonstrate new ideas/technologies and architectural concepts, at times supporting with hands-on contributions 
• Maintain (produce where missing) department tech-radar and associated processes regarding adoption of new technologies, as well as working with the wider architecture group to ensure a consistent approach
• Act as the day-to-day design authority for a major product vertical or customer account(s)

Qualifications

• Experience at decomposing monolithic systems in favour of smaller functional services
• Very good knowledge of all phases of software development life cycle: requirements analysis, design, implementation, code review, testing, and release 
• In-depth knowledge of systems design, architecture, and implementing large high transactional systems  .
• Authoritative knowledge in the company on several languages, applications, domains, tools and technical software engineering processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• The ability to influence engineers in all parts of the organisation and justify solutions to management.
• 5+ years of Java, C, C++ commercial programming experience, shell scripting, networking protocols, web-development, and database management 
• Knowledge of customer management platforms (CRM, CDP, CIAM), digital experience (CMS, Headless architecture) and Cloud will be an asset.

Additional Information
This position is hybrid, 2 days a week in the office which is located in Burnaby, near Brentwood mall. Working hours are flexible.
Why would you enjoy working with us at OpenBet?

• Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace
• The opportunity to interact with global teams, and where appropriate switch teams and projects as you and our business continue to develop and grow
• Tangible and genuine career development at OpenBet, where you can take your career where you want it to go!
• Exposure to real world and business critical projects & the chance to develop some of the world’s leading e-commerce sportsbooks whilst working with various clients and seeing lots of code!
• Flexible benefits portal which means you can tailor a package which suits individual needs. These include private medical, enhanced life assurance, dental to name a few.

And if that’s not enough, you will get to enjoy flexible working, whilst we provide you with the guidance and development skills you need to progress quickly and enhance your career.