Staff Software Engineer (Sports)
As a Staff Software Engineer at Super Technologies, the successful candidate will operate far beyond the scope of a single team or service, working directly with senior engineering leadership to tackle large, cross-area technical challenges that span dozens - sometimes hundreds - of services across the platform. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of architecture, strategy, and execution, suited to someone who thrives on complex systems and ambiguous problems.
This role involves shaping technical direction, guiding major platform evolutions, and ensuring systems remain scalable, reliable, and efficient as the company grows.
- Collaborate closely with engineering leadership and teams to design and implement scalable, robust software solutions.
- Analyse complex system challenges and develop clear 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 across scale, resiliency, and deployment.
- Build and improve core platform components and shared libraries (AWS, Go, Erlang, Kafka) used across the organisation.
- Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand and drive platform-wide improvements.
- Build on the cloud-native platform, enabling greater use of AWS technology to accelerate delivery, scale, and resiliency.
- Grow the engineering community, elevating standards and helping teams operate more efficiently.
- Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience in a large-scale production environment (required)
- Experience designing and implementing solutions at an organisational level, impacting multiple teams or tribes (required)
- Experience engineering high-quality, highly scalable software (required)
- Strong system design fundamentals, particularly in distributed systems (required)
- Ability to analyse complex technical problems and develop clear strategies (required)
- Comfort working in ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces (required)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across teams (required)
- A passion for creating user-centric, data-driven solutions (required)
- Willingness to learn new technologies (our stack includes Golang and Erlang) (required)
- Experience in Fintech (nice-to-have)
- Interest in functional programming (nice-to-have)
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.