Senior Backend Engineer
We are on a mission to pioneer the world’s next era of play. As we grow across Europe and Latin America, we’re building The Playstack - the technology powering the next generation of sports, gaming, and fan experiences. Join us, and help make it the most widely used platform in the world! From operations, to marketing, to product, we are looking for talented people who will shape how millions of customers play, watch, and connect every day.
Super is one of the largest sports betting operators in the region, running a network of over 1,000 locations across multiple geographies and processing more than 22 million bets per month. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will join the Player – Transact Tribe, a team with organisation-wide impact and deep connections across multiple engineering areas. In this role, you will help shape systems that power critical functionality across the business and connect multiple engineering domains.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership and teams to design and implement scalable, robust software solutions
- Improve the existing platform to increase the amount of business functionality driven by end-user configuration
- Enhance system automation across scale, resiliency, and deployment
- Build and enhance core platform components and shared libraries (AWS, Go, Erlang, Kafka) used across the organisation
- Build on the CloudNative platform, enabling greater use of AWS technology to accelerate delivery, scale, and resiliency
- Analyse complex system challenges and drive improvements to architecture, scalability, and platform efficiency
- Drive technical initiatives from concept to execution, influencing decisions and aligning multiple teams
- Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the wider business to understand and drive improvements across the platform
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team productivity and efficiency.
- A minimum of 6 years of hands on experience in a large scale production environment (required)
- Experience engineering high-quality, highly scalable software in any object-oriented or Functional language (required)
- Experience working with distributed systems (required)
- Experience building and improving upon observability (required)
- A passion for clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing, and continuous deployment (required)
- A passion for working in the cloud and automation (required)
- Familiarity with Golang, Erlang, or Elixir (required)
- A user-centric, data driven approach to building solutions (required)
- Willingness to learn new technologies (required)
- Experience in AWS (Cloudformation, MSK, S3, Cognito etc..) (preferred)
- Knowledge of Kafka (preferred)
- An interest in Functional Programming (preferred)
- Medical / Health Insurance
- Open Annual Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Training & Learning Development
Superbet, which operates under the Super Technologies banner, is a multinational sports betting and gaming group founded in 2008 in Romania by Sacha Dragic. Headquartered in Bucharest, it began with retail betting shops and has grown into one of the leading omni-channel betting operators in Central and Eastern Europe, with a strong focus on digital products. The group employs more than 5,000 people and operates across around a dozen European markets as well as Brazil. Its offices span Romania, Poland, Serbia, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Croatia, Brazil, Malta and Gibraltar.
