Senior Back End Engineer

At GiG, we power the future of the iGaming industry as a leading B2B tech provider. We are looking for Senior Backend Engineer to join our sports team.

• Leverage an in-depth understanding of software engineering principles and best practices to contribute to the development and enhancement of our products.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to analyse requirements and translate them into efficient and scalable software solutions, taking into consideration performance, security, and integration aspects.
• Demonstrate technical leadership by actively participating in the design and development of complex system features, providing guidance to junior team members, and ensuring the adherence to coding standards.
• Drive the implementation of best practices in coding, testing, and deployment to maintain a high standard of code quality and support scalable and maintainable software solutions.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and advancements in software engineering, actively incorporating relevant insights into the development process to enhance our software offerings.
• Demonstrates advanced proficiency in utilising the latest .NET Technologies (.NET Core, WebAPIs, Orleans) within the B2B software industry, particularly in the dynamic environment of igaming solutions.
• Extensive experience working with microservices architecture, showcasing the ability to design and implement scalable solutions for the igaming space.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven microservices architecture, ideally using Kafka and Microsoft Orleans' actor framework, leveraging different communication ports including REST, Events and gRPC.
• Adept at planning and executing tasks both autonomously and collaboratively within a team, emphasising effective communication and collaboration.
• Deep knowledge of source control and GIT Flow, emphasising best practices for version control.

• Proven experience as a Senior Backend Engineer, preferably within the B2B software or iGaming industry (required).
• Advanced, hands-on proficiency with the latest .NET Technologies (.NET Core, WebAPIs) (required).
• Extensive experience designing and implementing Microservices Architecture at scale (required).
• Solid experience with Event-Driven Architecture, specifically utilizing Apache Kafka for event streaming (required).
• Proficiency in designing and integrating communication ports using REST, gRPC, and Event-driven messaging (required).
• Deep knowledge of Standard GIT and Git Flow best practices (required).
• Hands-on implementation of best practices in coding, testing (unit/integration), and deployment to maintain high code quality (required).
• Strong working experience with Microsoft Orleans (or similar actor frameworks) (nice-to-have).

• Great career development opportunities
• Hybrid working model
• International Health Insurance
• Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
• Birthday Day Off
• Me Time - 1 day off per year

Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) is a business-to-business supplier of cloud-based iGaming platform and sportsbook technology, headquartered in St Julian's, Malta. The company provides a player-account-management platform, a sportsbook and real-time data tools to online gambling operators across more than 30 regulated markets. Following a 2024 strategic split that separated its media arm (now Gentoo Media), GiG operates as GiG Software, focused on platform and sportsbook products. It maintains offices across Malta, Spain, the UK, Sweden, Brazil, Canada and the Philippines.

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