Position: Senior Back-End Developer (Node.js)
Company: Scout Gaming Group
Experience required: 3y
Category: Node.js
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

**A little bit about us and our vision**
Our ambition is to be world leading in fantasy sports and pool betting – join our journey!

Our products are primarily targeted at large international partners and customers. The fantasy sports-and pooled betting market is a rapidly growing market in Europe.

How fantasy games work: In fantasy sports, you are a manager for a team. Each player creates their own Fantasy team by “buying” real players (from any sport) and receives points according to how well the real players perform in the real matches/events.

Our products are already being used by millions of users, and Scout Gaming Group’s immodest ambition is to create the world`s best fantasy-and pooled betting solutions.

As a developer in Scout, you will be a big part of our journey towards this target.

Scout Gaming Group`s biggest advantage is a modern and solid technology. We have for example chosen to not support old browsers for the benefit of increased possibilities and higher user-friendliness.  Our backend platform is built up as a modern web API for web and app clients, delivery from backend to end user works as a pure API-delivery, free of legacy and old-fashioned technology.

**Benefits**
We have established a very good working environment where we, among others, offer our employees flexible working hours, health-care benefits, professional courses and conferences, an option to choose equipment you need for work.

At Scout, you will meet challenges, get your own responsibility areas and get the chance to grow your own carrier.

**Your main tasks will be:**
Be part of making new game concepts into a reality
To further develop and maintain backend for existing games
Communicate and plan together with our front-end developers, designers, and our Quality Assurance department
Administration of databases and further development of the databases

**What you should have:**
Extensive experience with SQL (mainly PostgreSQL)
Good knowledge of Javascript/NodeJS, Redis and REST
Experience with building solid API’s handling big loads
Experience with using version control (for example Git, SVN or Mercurial)
Relevant higher education within computer engineering/development, or acquired competence through work experience that can compensate for higher education
The ability to find good and intuitive solutions

**As a person you are:**
Ambitious, solution-oriented and enthusiastic about technology
Good collaboration skills
Appreciates self-management and takes initiative
Have a high implementation capacity
Love to work with new technology and finding the optimal and innovative solutions

**In Scout you will:**
Be heavily involved in the development of world-leading solutions with some of the world’s largest iGaming and media companies as clients.
Get much responsibility, trust, and team support to solve exciting challenges.
Get the opportunity to continuous career development (professional and English courses sponsored by the Company).
Be part of an exciting journey to build a leading provider within the sports and betting industry.
Get competitive conditions for salary and other benefits.
You will spend your days in a collaborative and dynamic office with a highly skilled team, do great work, and have fun while doing so.

**Where will you work and with whom?**
These days most of our team is working from home, however our office is open for everyone preferring the common office space! It’s located in the city center of Lviv, in a light and playful office space.

In Lviv we are 64 employees:
10 Backend/Frontend-developers
2 DevOps
4 Project Leaders
4 HR/Administration people
8 Quality Assurance Engineers
22 Sports Statisticians/ Analyst
6 Sport Traders
7 Customer Support Representatives
Chief of Production