Senior Software Engineer, Services
Rush Street Interactive is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Services to play a foundational role in building the technology behind its digital experiences. This includes designing and building backend services, APIs, event processing systems, and integrations that enable analytics, lifecycle engagement, and downstream data systems.
The role goes beyond feature delivery, developing platform capabilities that support a broader modernisation strategy while helping transition the existing delivery model by balancing business-as-usual support with long-term architectural goals. In addition to hands-on development, responsibilities include providing technical leadership, driving engineering best practices, and mentoring other engineers. The role requires deep backend engineering expertise combined with systems thinking, architectural discipline, and a strong appreciation for scalability, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
- Lead Java backend development using Spring, Hibernate, Dropwizard, and related technologies, building scalable microservices for high-volume, highly available digital platforms.
- Design and evolve RESTful APIs, service-to-service communication, and event-driven architectures using Kafka and asynchronous messaging.
- Own resilient internal and third-party integrations, including retry handling, idempotency, monitoring, and operational support.
- Manage event contracts and payload schemas with Product, Analytics, and Engineering, ensuring reliable, well-structured data for downstream CRM, lifecycle, reporting, and analytics systems.
- Define platform-wide API governance, service contracts, versioning, and integration standards.
- Support business-as-usual operations while reducing technical debt, simplifying legacy processes, and modernising architecture through service consolidation.
- Deliver secure, high-performing, observable, and maintainable services through engineering best practices, automated testing, CI/CD, and production monitoring.
- Lead incident investigations, root cause analysis, and long-term preventative improvements.
- Lead design reviews, pair programming, and code reviews; mentor engineers and support hiring, onboarding, and career development.
- Shape technical roadmaps with Engineering Managers and Architects, recommending direction and evaluating trade-offs using facts.
- Evaluate emerging backend technologies, including AI-assisted development tools, to improve scalability, reliability, and productivity.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, with deep backend expertise and advanced Java proficiency using Spring, Hibernate, Dropwizard, or similar enterprise frameworks (required)
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems (preferred)
- Proven expertise in distributed systems, microservices, RESTful APIs, backend integrations, and event-driven architectures using brokers such as Kafka (required)
- Experience designing scalable, highly available, secure, resilient, and fault-tolerant cloud-native systems (required)
- Working knowledge of Postgres, Oracle, AWS, and infrastructure-as-code practices, plus hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and DevOps (required)
- Strong observability skills across logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and production diagnostics (required)
- Ability to lead technical discussions and architectural decisions across teams, balancing immediate delivery with long-term platform scalability (required)
- Experience partnering with Engineering, Analytics, or BI teams in production and mentoring engineers in Agile environments using Scrum or Kanban (required)
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills in English (required)
- A self-starter mindset with strong ownership and accountability in complex, evolving environments (required)
- Exposure to high-traffic, real-time, or transaction-heavy platforms; experience in regulated, high-volume, transaction-heavy environments involving customer/player data, payments, CRM, marketing technology, or real-time event processing (preferred)
- Familiarity with mobile application architecture and platform best practices (required)
- Redis experience and a background in Data Analytics or Data Engineering (nice-to-have)
- Ability to travel occasionally, domestically and internationally (required)
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical, prescription drugs, vision, and paramedical services)
- Competitive dental plan with strong coverage for basic, major, and orthodontic services
- Annual Health Care Spending Account (HCSA) to support your personalised wellness needs
- 24/7 virtual healthcare access for you and your eligible dependents
- Life, disability, and AD&D insurance
- Wellness-focused perks including mental health support and rewards programs
- RRSP and company DPSP contribution, up to 100% of the first 4%
- Parental leave top up policy
- Paid vacation and sick time
Rush Street Interactive is an online casino and sports betting operator founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago. It runs the BetRivers brand in regulated US states and Ontario, and RushBet in Colombia and Mexico. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RSI.