Join the Exciting Journey at tombola! 🕹️ 

Are you ready to be a part of something extraordinary? As tombola continues its remarkable growth, we're on the hunt for dynamic and innovative Developers to work in our Platform division. This is your chance to dive headfirst into the heart of innovation, powered by cutting-edge AWS Cloud Technologies. 

We are looking for a Platform Developer to help contribute experienced opinions and grow in a recently formed team. Working with them to develop core underpinning software of our tombola platform. 

You will be involved in the technical direction of the team and involved in planning and delivering in-line with our roadmap. 

A key part of the role is to make sure that our products and solutions maintain a great player experience. Taking into consideration user experience, accessibility, building a platform to help our teams build our websites.

Find your bounce at tombola! 🎱 

At tombola, we're not just another player in the game; we're the creators of the game. Our approach is revolutionary – we craft every element of our software in-house, from concept to execution. We take pride in the ingenuity of our developers and designers, united by their passion for pushing boundaries and shaping the future. 

It’s not just our digital bingo balls that have loads of bounce. Our people do, too. Whatever your role, it’s the kind of place that can put a spring in your step. 

Whether you're developing game mechanics, keeping our players safe, testing our products or sponsoring one of the UK's biggest TV shows, how high and how far you bounce really is up to you. 

What do we offer? 💰 

We champion a culture of inclusivity, flexibility, personal development, and mental wellbeing!  

As well as a salary that will be more than agreeable for you, we offer market leading benefits such as quarterly bonus, tombola merch, free breakfast and lunches in the office, private healthcare, hybrid working and much more.  

You can find out more about our benefits and what it's like to work for us here. 

Sounds great! What will I be doing? 🔎 

Work with a team of developers, supporting innovation through performance and reliability. Actively participating, contributing as part of the team to deliver core functionality as part of the roadmap. Engaging with senior stakeholders across various departments, understanding their needs and delivering impactful technical and procedural solutions. Working with other teams to develop collaborative ways of working that make better products, consolidate processes and improve delivery timelines. Improving the technical landscape with the focus on observability. 

What will I be doing (but in bullet points) 🍿 

• Working on the inception of a design system, working closely with our UI/UX team to allow them to consistently apply design principles to our products. You will be building developer tooling and packages to support using the design system in our existing products.

• Contributing to frontend direction at tombola proposing guidance and patterns to help build good products. You will be involved in making decisions of which tooling and frameworks we use to support interactivity on our sites.

• Building out standard common UI components using dotnet that will form a shared platform Razor Class Library using utility first style fundamentals.

• Building out documentation and guidance to help other developers when making frontend changes using best practices.

• Advocating use of the design system and helping teams onboard it, continually passing feedback to the team to improve the system.

• Working through the lifecycle of key technical projects from inception to deployment. 

• Contribute to the planning of technical projects and review software design and implementations, promoting an environment of continuous improvement. 

• Engage actively in designing and developing intricate technical solutions.

• Develop clean, efficient, and well-documented software solutions. Conduct code reviews, performance optimizations, and quality assurance testing to ensure software reliability and scalability.

• Ensuring your own professional growth and continuous improvement through personal learning time

What does good look like for us? 😇 

Knowledge and experience we need you to have… 

• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript / TypeScript 

• Good awareness of JS frameworks and current frontend trends.

• Good understanding of frontend tooling such as css preprocessors, module bundlers, transpilers, and package managers.

• Deep understanding of the internet and browsers, with knowledges in areas of HTTP, Domains, and browser security features such as CORS and CSP.

• Proven experience in building responsive frontend applications using JS, HTML, and CSS.

• Experience in frontend testing using tool such as Jest, Vitest, Playwright.

• Estimating complex technical stories and breaking them down 

• Git knowledge particularly around release branches and git tags.

• Ability to build frontends in dotnet using razor following patterns such as MVC

• Prior experience developing solutions and integrating with legacy systems. 

• Pragmatic and able to adapt working in a fast-paced environment. 
   

We’d love you to have experience in these areas, but it’s not essential 

• Experience with building and testing for accessibility and SEO.

• Experience with tooling such as Storybook for demonstrating components.

• AWS experience, interacting and deploying to service such as S3.

• Understanding of working in regulated space 

At tombola we know that our differences make us stronger and that thinking differently is key to long term success. We work hard to create a culture of inclusivity where everyone can celebrate our Free to be me value. We are committed to creating opportunities for everyone here at tombola, we welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage individuals to apply, even if you don’t meet every requirement.