Senior Software Engineer Backend
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. The Gaming Platform team at Super owns the core transaction pipeline that powers every gaming interaction across our ecosystem, from spins and sessions to financial transactions. This platform sits at the heart of our gaming architecture, connecting multiple game providers across jurisdictions. The team is responsible for ensuring high reliability, scalability and performance of this critical infrastructure. The system is built on Erlang.
- Develop, maintain and optimise internal services powering the gaming ecosystem.
- Deliver new features, resolve bugs and continuously improve performance across Erlang services.
- Integrate and manage configurations for multiple game providers.
- Support provider migrations and upgrades.
- Manage and optimise Kubernetes workloads within AWS.
- Tune system resources (CPU, memory), Kafka configurations, DynamoDB usage and DNS setups.
- Collaborate with SRE teams on cross-platform reliability and scalability.
- Act as an escalation point for production issues.
- Investigate and resolve platform incidents, perform root cause analysis and drive fixes.
- Office hour on-call and out of office hour on-call is possible.
- Monitor and scale platform capacity during high-traffic campaigns.
- Prevent service degradation and ensure seamless player experience under load.
- Support internal teams (Engagement, Content Integrations, Integration teams) with API usage and transaction behaviour.
- Enable features such as free spins, bonus rounds and other gameplay mechanics.
- Solid understanding of high-availability, low-latency systems.
- Strong backend engineering experience in distributed systems.
- Experience with Erlang (or willingness to learn).
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka).
- Strong debugging and incident management skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-scale production environment.
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.
