Senior Backend Engineer

We are building The Playstack — the technology powering the next generation of sports, gaming, and fan experiences across Europe and Latin America. 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 follow a Tribes and Squads model, with multiple product teams currently hiring Backend Engineers. Depending on your interests and experience, you could be building anything from Sports and Gaming features to player-focused experiences covering registration, deposits, withdrawals, player engagement, and retention. Every squad plays a key role in delivering seamless, secure, and engaging user experiences — and your work will directly impact how we stand out in a highly competitive market.

What the role involves

• Collaborate closely with geographically distributed engineering teams to design and implement scalable and robust software solutions.
• Enhance the existing platform to increase the amount of business functionality driven by end-user configuration.
• Enhance system automation across scale, resiliency, and deployment.
• Maintain, enhance, and create common platform components and libraries (AWS, Go, Python, Erlang, Kafka).
• Build on our cloud-native platform, enabling greater use of AWS technology to accelerate delivery, scale, and resiliency.
• Build on our observability tooling and infrastructure to better understand the capabilities of our systems.
• Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organisation to understand and drive requirements and improvements across the platform.
• Lead initiatives and tasks, driving them to completion and championing continuous improvement to enhance team productivity and efficiency.
• Grow the engineering community by building on existing processes and practices.

What we are looking for

• A minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience in a large-scale production environment.
• Experience engineering high-quality, highly scalable software in an object-oriented or functional language.
• Willingness to learn new technologies (we work with Golang, Python, Erlang, and Elixir).
• A talent for clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing, and continuous deployment.
• Experience working with distributed systems.
• Experience building and improving upon observability.
• A passion for working in the cloud and automation.
• A passion for creating user-centric, data-driven solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS (CloudFormation, MSK, S3, Cognito, etc.).
• An interest in functional programming.
• Knowledge of Kafka.
• Front-end development experience in React or Vue.js.

What we offer

• Medical / Health Insurance
• Open Annual Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Training & Learning Development