Senior Node.js Engineer - Group CMS

Technology Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear Leeds, United Kingdom


Description

Position at LeoVegas Group

ABOUT THE ROLE

 

We are looking for a self-driven Senior Software Engineer to join the LeoVegas CMS team. Working within an agile environment, your primary focus will be the delivery of key features and improvements, writing clean, maintainable code that aligns with our broader architectural vision. As a senior member of the team, you will balance this delivery work with mentorship, helping to elevate our collective engineering standards through active collaboration and code review.

 

You will be working on our proprietary headless CMS, a Node.js application that serves as the central content hub for the LeoVegas Group portfolio. The system relies on an event-driven, service-oriented, architecture to synchronise over 400,000 pages. Hosted within a GCP environment and managed via a single monorepo, the platform offers a mature, containerised context where you can focus on building scalable, full stack, code.

 

YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

 

        Developing features for the Group CMS

        Creating reusable modules across the Group CMS domain within NPM Workspaces & Turbo monorepo setup.

        Maintaining K8S manifests as Application Engineers within a company-wide platform provided by Platform Engineers

        Monitoring deployments with Grafana & Datadog

        Maintaining CI/CD automations with Jenkins & GitHub Actions

        Documenting proposals and decisions of a technical nature (RFC/ADR)

        Fostering a collaborative team culture through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and active support of your peers.

 

 

OUR SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING:

 

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

        Proficient knowledge of JavaScript and Typescript, being able to converse comfortably with topics like JS internals, Typing, Code quality etc.

        Experience in NodeJS

        Experience in object-oriented programming

        Experience with writing APIs, RESTful and GraphQL

        Proficient understanding of code versioning tools

        Experience writing Unit Tests
 

NICE TO HAVES

        Experience with NestJS

        Experience with Redis/Kafka/Elasticsearch

        Experience with Docker/Kubernetes

        Experience using MonoRepo/Turborepo

        Experience with ReactJS, NextJS, CSS and HTML


 

WHO WE ARE

 

At the core of LeoVegas Group is Team Leo. Our culture is our foundation and is what enables us to innovate, build, and lead as we trailblaze our way through the igaming industry. We’re a team of over 2000 innovators, initiators, and groundbreakers working in a fast-paced and agile environment across 19 offices worldwide.

 

 

BENEFITS

 

        Hybrid working - 3 days per week at the office, with flexibility for 2 days at home

        Workation – Take your job on an adventure with our Workation benefit for up to 4 weeks per year (T&Cs apply).

        Plenty of time to recharge – 28 days of paid leave, plus all public and bank holidays in England.

        Invest in your future – We match pension contributions up to 6%.

        Comprehensive healthcare – BUPA coverage, including pre-existing conditions, plus a cashback plan for dental, optical, and other treatments.

        Wellbeing allowance – £250 annual allowance for you to invest in your health and wellbeing (T&Cs apply).

        A great workplace experience – Talented colleagues, free onsite parking, complimentary snacks and drinks, Monday breakfasts, and Friday lunches.

        A social culture you’ll love – Regular opportunities to attend sporting events throughout the year, plus a quarterly team budget for even more fun.

        Support for growing families – Up to 6 months of full pay for maternity leave.

        Stay active & save money – Cycle-to-work scheme and gym discounts.

        And there’s more… We’ll share even more perks related to your role when you chat with our Talent Acquisition team!

 

 

JOIN US!

In our pride, we empower our teammates to find their roar and run with their wildest ideas. We don’t wait for things to happen; we pounce and make it happen!

 

Would you be a good fit for the Leo Pride - give us a roar!

 

**As our company working language is English, we’d like to see your CV in English, please**