Staff 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.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will operate far beyond the scope of a single team or service. You will work directly with senior engineering leadership to tackle large, cross-area technical challenges that impact dozens - sometimes hundreds - of services across the platform. This is a role for someone who thrives on complex systems, ambiguous problems, and high-impact architectural decisions. You will help shape technical strategy, guide major platform evolutions, and ensure our systems remain scalable, reliable, and efficient as we grow.
- Collaborate closely with engineering leadership and teams to design and implement scalable and robust software solutions
- Analyze complex system challenges and create strategies for improving architecture, scalability, and platform efficiency
- Drive large cross-team initiatives from concept to execution, influencing decisions and aligning multiple teams
- Enhance system automation (scale, resiliency, deployment)
- Build and enhance core platform components and shared libraries (AWS, Go, Erlang, Kafka) used across the organization
- Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders from the wider organization to understand and drive improvements across the platform
- Build on our CloudNative platform, enabling more use of AWS technology to aid in speeding up delivery, scale, and resiliency
- Grow the engineering community, building on the existing process and practices
- Elevate engineering standards, helping teams grow and operate more efficiently
- A minimum of 8 years of hands on experience in a large scale production environment (required)
- Has experience in designing and implementing solutions on an organizational level, impacting multiple teams/tribes (required)
- Has experience engineering high-quality, highly scalable software (required)
- A willingness to learn new technologies (we are working with Golang, Erlang) (required)
- Strong system design fundamentals, particularly in distributed systems (required)
- Ability to analyze complex technical problems and develop clear strategies (required)
- Comfort working in ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces (required)
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams (required)
- A passion for creating user-centric, data driven solutions (required)
- Experience in Fintech (preferred)
- Interest in Functional Programming (preferred)
- Medical / Health Insurance (required)
- Open Annual Leave (required)
- Employee Assistance Programme (required)
- Training & Learning Development (required)
Additional benefits vary by country and will be shared during the hiring process.
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.
