Blexr - Full Stack Engineer (React - Next.Node) - 1
Blexr - Full Stack Engineer (React - Next.Node) - 1
About Blexr
We’ve been around since 2015 and have had a lot of success in that time, along
with a few useful failures. Now we’re writing the next chapter in our story. Our
strategy is to build some of the best products in the iGaming industry,
innovating and creating experiences to move the industry forward and be the
champion of a better game.
We want to do that by hiring amazing talent, like you, who will take us to the
next level, building and creating a company and products that we are proud of.
Expanding our horizons, learning and growing and reaching that next step in our
journey together. It’s important to us because if our people don’t grow, then
neither will Blexr.
Blexr’s culture has 4 core values that help guide us on our journey: No Limits,
Eyes on the prize, Stay True and Better Together. Each one brought to life from
within the company and used every day to guide our decisions and actions.
If this sounds good to you, then we want to talk to you. We want to work with
incredible people that want to do incredible things and we are certain that your
career will be Better with Blexr.
Key responsibilities
• Support product delivery by building, testing, and releasing production
quality features utilising best engineering practices.
• Ensure software is of high quality, security, performance, reliability,
robust, extensibility, resiliency, observability, etc. by having a holistic
approach to software development.
• Write simple, clean, test-driven secure code with a focus on modern good
practises while minimising technical debt and complexity.
• Refactor, optimise, and improve existing code for better maintainability
and scalability, and reduce technical debt in general.
• Produce key documentation and artefacts to ensure a common
understanding of the engineering characteristics of your product.
• Test own work with a view to minimal work items being returned for
defects to be fixed.
• Lead by example through mechanisms such as design/code reviews and
virtual pairing.
• Be a champion for your Engineering approach within your tribe and within
Blexr.
• Help develop product specifications, architectural design, build and
deployment automation.
• Be responsible for the availability and reliability characteristics of your
application.
• Unwavering focus on seamless, continuous delivery - ensuring that time
to production is measured in low minutes.
• Take a highly data driven approach to your work.
• Troubleshoot, identify root causes, and remediate complex technical
issues.
Note: There may be need for participation in an On-Call rota, depending on the
characteristics of the product you build.
About you
• Several years of experience acting as a Full Stack Engineer - with a core
focus on delivering content focused, responsive websites to global
audiences.
• Excellent understanding of modern front end approaches and
frameworks across HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Next.js, etc.
• Previous experience leading teams that have built websites for global
availability, high performance, localisation/internationalisation.
• Solid understanding of core HTTP principles and headers, from Cross
domain policies to Cache control headers.
• Extensive experience working in fully automated CI/CD environments.
• Strong understanding and application of TDD principles across the stack,
from unit to acceptance testing, and associated frameworks.
• Highly pragmatic and delivery focused - you enjoy nothing more than
seeing multiple releases roll out to customers every day - but also know
when to slow down to speed up.
• Reasonable understanding of data privacy and data security challenges -
and how to apply solutions for these in your solution from day one.
• Highly opinionated (but open minded!) on what best practice looks like -
and keen to align those around you on this.
• Solid understanding of API design and engineering, predominately using
RESTful approaches, but also emerging approaches such as GraphQL.
• Strong communicator - both written and verbal, who appreciates the
beauty of great diagram and loves the art of storytelling - particularly to
non-technical audiences.
• Experience working with modern architectural approaches such as
microservices / micro-frontends / reusable component libraries.
• Experience with a range of content management platforms -
predominately on headless systems (e.g.: Strapi / Contentful / etc).
• Occasional travel to London and Malta depending on the needs of your
team and your project.
Desirable
• Experience with, and working knowledge of other languages, including
Python, PHP and SQL.
• Experience with delivering capabilities at the edge.
• Experience working in referral/affiliate marketing websites, or comparison
websites.
• Experience building experimentation into your stack from day one (e.g.:
Blue/Green, A/B, MVT, etc).
• Experience working on global websites that are localised to different
regions.
• Experience building with AWS services (including with basic certification) a
distinct advantage.