Published on 7th April 2016 by Becky Mosley

Bet365, the world’s biggest online gambling corporation, have revealed their plans to launch a satellite technology office in Manchester’s Spring Gardens.

Opening May 2016

They are looking for 50-70 people to aid their development teams in Stoke-On-Trent, whilst the Manchester office is planned to open as early as May.“It’s difficult to recruit to one location when you have the demand for IT talent that bet365 does,” Dom Hawley, head of software development said.“We’ve found exceptional people in Stoke but it’s clear that we now need to expand our operation outside of the local area to grow our development teams further.”Bet365 chose Manchester due to the cities’ wealth of technology and travel links to the rest of Northern England.“Manchester was the obvious choice for establishing a blueprint for our growth. It has a superb technology culture,” Hawley explains.”It’s close enough to Stoke that people can move between offices if necessary and the commuter links are such that we may also attract people from further afield.”

Positive Recruitment

Recruits will be expected to advance to company’s back office trading applications, UI, middleware and web development for Sports and Gaming sectors.“We will start in the areas where we have the work backlog but the remote office will be a great opportunity to extend resource across each of our product areas,” Hawley continued.Warren Hughes, who has been named the head of systems development in Manchester added: “The recruitment in Manchester has started off extremely positive and is already proving to be a location that can offer us highly skilled software development professionals who are passionate about technology.“We wanted to ensure we offered a range of work options as well as clear career progression. This is not going to be an unstructured group of remote workers engaged in autonomous tasks. They will be a fully integrated part of the bet365 business.”