Senior Back End Engineer
In the role of Senior Back End Engineer, the individual will take ownership of the technical execution of regulatory data products. This involves designing, implementing, and maintaining Java services, SQL-driven data flows, and integrations that deliver trusted data to regulators, auditors, and internal compliance stakeholders.
The engineer will work closely with compliance, product, operations, and engineering teams to translate regulatory requirements into robust, scalable, and well-tested software.
- Design, develop, and maintain Java-based services, microservices, and data processing components that power regulatory integrations and reporting outputs.
- Build and optimise complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and data transformations for regulatory datasets, ensuring accuracy, performance, and scalability.
- Design, develop, and maintain robust integrations between internal platforms and external regulators, ensuring data is delivered accurately and within required timelines.
- Implement automation for regulatory reporting and validation processes to improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, and minimise operational risk.
- Monitor regulatory pipelines and services, proactively detect issues, and resolve data or processing discrepancies promptly to maintain reporting SLAs.
- Champion data quality, lineage, and governance practices across regulatory datasets, ensuring outputs are accurate, reproducible, and auditable.
- Work closely with compliance, product, operations, and engineering teams to translate regulatory requirements into clear technical specifications and solutions.
- Document integrations, services, and operational procedures; contribute to process improvement initiatives and ensure adherence to best practices.
- Provide technical support during incident resolution relating to regulatory reporting pipelines and data discrepancies.
- Actively participate in all agile scrum meetings such as daily standups, refinement sessions, and retrospectives.
- Propose and implement new ideas to improve existing products, processes, and tooling, fostering a culture of innovation within the team.
- Perform code reviews for other engineers, mentor more junior team members, and actively promote knowledge sharing within the team.
- Effectively communicate with stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring that requirements, risks, and status updates are transmitted clearly and to the right people.
- Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. (required)
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in software or data development, with a strong focus on backend / data-intensive systems. (required)
- Strong Java development skills, including experience building and maintaining production services and data processing components. (required)
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with large structured and unstructured datasets, including query optimisation and performance tuning. (required)
- Strong knowledge of Microservices and APIs. (required)
- Solid understanding of data governance, compliance, and data quality assurance. (required)
- Solution-oriented mindset with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across the data stack. (required)
- 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.