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Graduate Developer

Our Graduate Developer roles offer you the opportunity to train, develop and grow through hands on experience and mentorships.

tombola is the place to be if you're looking to learn and grow your tech skills. We're a technology company operating in the online gaming market. We came bouncing into the online bingo world in 2006. We’ve grown rapidly over the years and entered the world of online slots in 2016 with tombola arcade. We've got an impressive history and we're looking for some talented graduates to help reach our business goals in the future.

Our graduate programme is an amazing opportunity to kickstart a career in our tech teams, including Game, Engine or Platform Development.

Your career, your choice!

Our unique business model means that we manage all of our software teams in house. Our Graduate Developer role offers you an opportunity to choose which team you want to work in, it’s a role tailored to your chosen career path and development - and that’s why we think it’s so great!

About the role

Location: Sunderland

Salary: £25,111

Contract: Permanent

Working Pattern: Hybrid (2 days per week at home)

Start Date: July - September 2023

If you're looking for an exciting opportunity in tech, tombola is the place to be. Our software teams are large and diverse, with a range of experience levels. We're proud of our unique culture, which prioritises personal growth and progression.

As a recent graduate, we’ll provide you with everything you need to develop as a technologist, from training to mentorship opportunities; you'll have a support network of mentors from around the business to help you learn and understand our processes and dynamics. And if you ever have questions, your support network will be there to help you out.

In fact, our unique business model means that we manage all of our software teams in house which, as we mentioned, means our Tech department is pretty vast, so there's alway opportunity to learn new skills along the way. Our Graduate Developer role offers you an opportunity to choose which team you want to work in, it’s a role tailored to your chosen career path and development - and that’s why we think it’s so great!

We love a good time, too - there are plenty of opportunities for socialising with the rest of the tombola team, whether it's board game nights, virtual poker nights, or food and drinks at the local bowling alley.

 

Our software teams include…

Game Development

We live and breathe games and design and develop them all in house. Being a part of game development you will have the opportunity to learn how to build new and exciting games. If you like the sound of working closely with developers, animators and designers to bring to life the latest innovations in our games using things like TypeScript, Pixie and you want to learn how to build the most polished of UI/UX then this is the place for you.

Game Engine Development

If maths and statistics really floats your boat then our Game Engine Development team may just be the place for you. Here you will learn how we build our game servers, building high throughput distributed systems that manage our odds-based games using things like C# and AWS.

Platform Development

If you’re interested in learning all about the platforms the games are built on Platform Development could be suited to you. Distributed web and cloud solutions are built using things like Nodejs, C# .Net and AWS (and lots of other stuff).

DevOps Engineering

Being part of our DevOps Engineering teams will teach you how to build and maintain the significant distributed cloud and data services that all of tombola is built on. If you’re interested in cloud technology, like AWS, and orchestrating fleets of servers and services then this is the place for you.

We're looking for recent graduates with good communication skills, a desire to learn, and a willingness to suggest improvements. We value giving our players the best possible experience, so if you want to help shape our software solutions, join us at tombola!

Benefits and perks

  • 🤤 Free food and snacks
  • ✅ Quarterly bonus
  • 📍 Hybrid and flexible working
  • 🏥 Private healthcare
  • 📈 Courses and conferences
  • 🎉 Social events and parties
  • 🅿️ Free city centre parking
  • 🧦 tombola merch
  • 🚲 On site gym

Want to know more about the benefits of joining the tombola team, check them out here. 

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