Platform Engineer

Blip is a top-of-the-edge Portuguese IT company, focused on software engineering solutions for sports betting and gaming.  

As part of the Flutter Entertainment group, we are an essential piece of the business, delivering safe and entertaining websites, mobile apps, and retail systems for over 7.6 million monthly customers around the globe.   

Creating safe and fun software for sports betting and gaming it’s what we do. But the way we do it is what makes us one of the top options when it comes to choosing the best place to boost your career. Our Agile-oriented mindset, together with the most exciting technology and a team of 500 bold and inspiring people, will drive your star-quality skills to another level.  

We bet on people first. That’s why employer branding and flexible practices are cornerstones of our working culture. And our working culture is more than job benefits, it empowers you to come as you are and find the perfect balance between your life and your working challenges. We focus on autonomy, diversity, lifelong learning, and work-life balance.  

So… It’s not a job. It’s a way of being and it all starts here.  Are you in  ? 

What You'll Be Doing...    

• Develop tooling and automation for our services, writing code in Go (Golang), Groovy, Ruby and Java when necessary.

• Providing support via Slack to our internal customers and working with the latest technologies to develop the toolset, driven by business priorities and internal customer requirements.

• Design, develop, support, and optimise our toolset.

• Provision on-premises and cloud resources as code using Terraform, Chef, AWS CDK, and Kubernetes.

• Reviewing platform code changes and approving or suggesting improvements to authors as appropriate.

To become one of us you should have...   

• A good understanding of Linux, CI/CD pipelines, Git and Source Control.

• Experience with Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud or other event streaming services (Pulsar, Kinesis, RabbitMQ) preferred.

• A background in Infrastructure as code, Configuration, DevOps or Platform Engineering.

• Experience with at least one of the following: Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Kubernetes or AWS CDK.

• A good understanding of writing, testing, and reviewing clean code.

• You will be an excellent communicator, with an ability to communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.

• Keep up to date with the latest open-source technology and have the confidence to suggest areas where new tools or practises can help the business achieve its goals and improve existing systems and processes.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English and Portuguese);  

But, above all, we’re looking for a people-focused person with strong team management skills that can lead and multiply each team member’s potential to its fullest while promoting a challenging but rewarding work environment.