Senior Backend Engineer (Boosters)
Description
The promotional features team is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. This role is focused on developing and optimising promotional features for Playson's gaming platforms, where performance, scalability, and cutting-edge solutions are paramount.
This position is for a product-passionate individual whose mind is keen to solve deep tech engineering problems, and who has a fast "PoC first" approach with a deep sense of ownership.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain robust backend systems for our promotional features.
- Optimize existing systems for enhanced performance and scalability.
- Lead technical decisions and contribute to our SaaS solutions.
- Collaborate with distributed teams to innovate and implement new features.
- Ensure code and architectural excellence through reviews.
- Address complex technical challenges with innovative solutions.
- Participating in on-call rotations within the squad to help ensure the reliability and availability of our systems.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript (required).
- Strong backend engineers from other ecosystems (e.g., Go, Java, C#, C++) who are ready to ramp up quickly (preferred).
- Strong understanding of asynchronous programming and concurrency patterns (required).
- Experience building distributed systems and working with messaging and coordination tools (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, distributed locks) (required).
- Experience with gRPC in production environments (required).
- Solid knowledge of databases: relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL), columnar (ClickHouse), and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB) (required).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and Kubernetes (required).
- Skilled in building and maintaining unit and end-to-end tests (required).
- Proven track record of delivering production-ready solutions (required).
- Experience working with large-scale microservices architectures (required).
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) (required).
- Understanding of enterprise development patterns (nice-to-have).
- Active performance observation (nice-to-have).
- Gambling domain experience (nice-to-have).
- Understanding of application security and industry standards, its best practice (nice-to-have).
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Quarterly Bonuses
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Unlimited Paid Sick Leave
- Remote & Flexible Working
- Private Medical Insurance
- Financial Support for Life Events
- Professional Development Budget
- International Exposure
- Regular Company Events
About Playson
Playson is a business-to-business developer of online slot games, established in 2012 and headquartered in Sliema, Malta. It supplies casino operators in more than 20 regulated markets, with game development, mathematics and art teams working across Europe.