Senior Backend Engineer - Sports
The company is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join its dynamic team in Málaga. In this role, the engineer will play a crucial part in the Sportsbook domain by working on impactful problems and driving change with effective momentum.
The engineer will collaborate closely with Staff Engineers, participate in tech meetings, validate architectural decisions, and ensure seamless communication flow. Additionally, the role involves working with various teams to contribute to planning, tech solution discussions, and feature development, providing a unique opportunity to shape the backend architecture.
- 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 the 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 and 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 (2 days a week of working from home)
- 4 weeks of Workation (T&C apply)
- 300 EUR wellness contribution annually
- Health insurance
- Flexible compensation: Payment through gross salary, savings of up to 30%.
- Life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (free psychological wellbeing)
- Short Fridays - we work until 16:00
- August Intensive schedule (9:00 - 16:00)
- Complimentary snacks and drinks in our offices, Monday breakfast and Wednesday fika (Swedish break for coffee and something sweet)
- Team and office social events throughout the year
- Game room
- Career development opportunities
- Upskilling budget
- Team activities
- Cool central office in Malaga with a hybrid work model
- An autonomous work environment where you can apply your skills and experience in ways that work best for you
- Working with an international and dynamic team
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.