Software Engineer
We’re looking for a Software Engineer who’s excited about building scalable backend services and making a real impact. You’ll take ownership from idea to delivery, contribute to technical discussions, and help foster a collaborative, knowledge-sharing environment. You’ll join a supportive team where your ideas matter and where you’ll have opportunities to both learn and mentor others. While experience with Java is a plus, we welcome engineers with other object-oriented backgrounds (such as C# or C++) who are eager to work with Java. In this role, you’ll help build and evolve high-performance, mission-critical backend systems powering our games and real-time transactions. You’ll work across the full development lifecycle and contribute to a culture of clean code, strong engineering practices, and continuous improvement. If you enjoy solving meaningful problems and building systems that make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
- Build, operate, and continuously improve our core backend systems, ensuring they remain robust, scalable, and reliable
- Develop and maintain backend services powering games, jackpots, tournaments, and promotional features
- Apply best practices to create high-performing systems capable of handling real-time, real-money transactions
- Contribute throughout the software development lifecycle, from early discussions and design to implementation, testing, and deployment
- Collaborate closely with teammates and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that your team can build on with confidence
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues, working together with the team to continuously improve our systems
- Support monitoring, performance optimisation, and the overall reliability of our platform
- Share your knowledge and help grow the team by mentoring and supporting more junior engineers
- At least 4 years of experience (required)
- Strong understanding of OOP languages (example: Java, C#, C++) and software design principles (required)
- Strong problem-solving skills and clarity in tackling complex challenges (required)
- Understanding of scalable backend architectures and distributed systems concepts (required)
- Ability to optimise algorithms for speed and scalability (required)
- Experience using Java or a willingness to work extensively with Java (required)
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) is preferred (preferred)
- Experience building or maintaining high-transaction distributed systems (nice-to-have)
- Experience working at a game provider or within other high-transaction environments (nice-to-have)
- Experience with message-driven architectures and messaging platforms (nice-to-have)
- Experience with containerised applications and modern deployment environments (nice-to-have)
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and troubleshooting production systems (nice-to-have)
- Experience using Java 8 or later (nice-to-have)
- Passion for games (nice-to-have)
- Communicative and collaborative (required)
- Positive and proactive (required)
- Eager to learn and improve (required)
- Trustworthy and self-motivated (required)
- Comfortable taking ownership and initiative (required)
- World-class Colleagues
- Value Driven Company
- Opportunities to Grow
- A 'Relaxed' Environment
Relax Gaming is a business-to-business iGaming supplier and content aggregator, founded in 2010 and headquartered in Malta. It develops its own slots, poker and bingo products and distributes thousands of third-party casino games through its Silver Bullet and Powered By partner programmes. Owned by the Kindred Group (now part of FDJ United), the company runs game studios in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Malmö and Stockholm, with additional offices across Europe and Gibraltar. Relax Gaming supplies regulated online casino operators worldwide.
