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. We are one of the largest sports betting operators in the region making 1000+ location networks work across multiple geographies. If you ever wanted to see how software can handle 22 million bets per month - why not join us? You’ll have the opportunity to bring beautiful solutions to life through clean and maintainable code, contribute to feature development from day one, and work closely with a passionate and diverse team of engineers, product managers, and designers. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Player – Transact Tribe , a team with organization-wide impact and deep connections across multiple engineering areas. As a Senior Engineer, you will help shaping systems that power critical functionality across the organization and connect multiple engineering domains.

• Collaborate closely with engineering leadership and teams to design and implement scalable and robust software solutions
• Improve the existing platform to increase the amount of business functionality driven by end-user configuration
• 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
• Analyze complex system challenges and work on improving architecture, scalability, and platform efficiency
• Drive technical initiatives from concept to execution, influencing decisions and aligning multiple teams
• Leading projects and tasks and driving them to completion
• 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.
• Has experience engineering high-quality, highly scalable software in any object-oriented or Functional language
• A willingness to learn new technologies (we are working with Golang, Erlang, Elixir)
• A talent for clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing, and continuous deployment
• A passion for working in the cloud and automation
• Experience working with distributed systems
• Experience building and improving upon observability
• A passion for creating user-centric, data driven solutions
• Bonus points for: Experience in AWS (Cloudformation, MSK, S3, Cognito etc..)
• An interest in Functional Programming
• Knowledge of Kafka