Senior Backend Engineer - Sports
Join our team as a Senior Software Engineer and play a crucial role in driving our organisation's growth through the development of outstanding products. LeoVegas Group is building something special – a world-class team dedicated to creating the best Sportsbook platform in the market through cutting-edge technology and innovative gaming experiences.
This is a dynamic team that will be working on creating new cool features and integrating them into LeoVegas platforms. We’re seeking a dynamic individual who can deliver state-of-the-art code while prioritising performance and scalability. We are recruiting for our Tiger Sportsbook Team! In Sportsbook we work in a high-volume, real-time environment, integrating data feeds with our modern trading system and transactional betting platform (UI/Backend). Your contributions will cover maintaining/expanding our current Betting/Trading services as well as building new services and capabilities for our users. As a key member of our team, you’ll collaborate effectively while also demonstrating initiative and a passion for sharing innovative ideas.
- Taking ownership, problem-solving and collaborating with other teams.
- Designing and implementing from idea to production.
- Building for scale, availability, performance and security across the stack.
- Working with product managers, architects, QA engineers and other developers in a highly collaborative agile environment.
- Integrating new products and building internal services to support our ecosystem.
- Conducting code reviews and mentoring team members.
- Ensuring services are production-ready, observable, and maintainable through monitoring, alerting, and on-call participation.
- 6+ Years of software development experience with Java, Spring Boot and Event-Driven Architectures. (required)
- Experience designing microservices, K8s, containerization (Docker) and Kafka messaging systems. (required)
- Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and caching. (required)
- Implementing resilience patterns (e.g., retries, circuit breakers, graceful degradation). (required)
- Designing and maintaining monitoring dashboards (e.g., metrics, logs, traces) and alerts to proactively detect issues. (required)
- Hands-on experience developing highly scalable RESTful end-to-end microservices. (required)
- Familiarity with Reactive Programming (e.g. RxJava) and Vert.x. (nice-to-have)
- Experience in platforms like AWS and Google Cloud Platform. (nice-to-have)
- Online gaming and gambling experience. (nice-to-have)
- Hybrid work policy
- 4 weeks of Workation (T&C apply)
- 30 annual vacation days
- Occupational Pension
- 5,000 SEK wellness contribution annually
- Parental Leave Top-Up
- Possibility to enrol in a private health care insurance for both you and your partner
- 1,500 SEK equipment allowance
- Benify - benefits portal with many offers and discounts
LeoVegas Group is a Swedish mobile-first iGaming company founded in 2011, headquartered in Stockholm with its main operational hub in Sliema, Malta. A pioneer of mobile casino, it operates online casino and sportsbook products across regulated markets through brands including LeoVegas, BetUK, Expekt, Pink Casino and GoGo Casino. In 2022 the group was acquired by MGM Resorts International and now serves as MGM's international online-gaming arm, having previously been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.