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Senior Backend Engineer (Core Team)

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Senior level
The Senior Backend Engineer will design, build, and optimize backend services in a high-load microservices environment, focusing on reliability and performance while solving complex challenges related to financial transactions.
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About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Developer who thrives in a deeply hands-on environment and enjoys being close to the code on a daily basis. This role is heavily focused on building, optimising, and scaling backend services in a high-load system where performance and reliability are critical.

You’ll be working on complex, real-time challenges at the core of our platform - improving latency, ensuring high availability, and making systems more efficient at scale. This is not a coordination-heavy role; it’s for someone who enjoys writing production code, solving tough engineering problems, and seeing the direct impact of their work.

If you’re product-driven, take ownership, and prefer a “build first, improve fast” approach while working on systems where every millisecond matters - this role will feel like home.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work as part of a cross-functional team owning a core product within the platform

  • Design, build, and deliver new backend features end-to-end in a distributed environment

  • Write high-quality, production-level code daily, contributing directly to a high-load, scalable system

  • Take ownership of services handling financial transactions at scale, with a strong focus on reliability and accuracy

  • Proactively suggest and implement improvements in architecture, processes, and development practices

  • Participate in code and architectural reviews to maintain high engineering standards

  • Solve complex business and technical challenges with pragmatic, efficient solutions

  • Participating in on-call rotations within the squad to ensure the reliability and availability of our systems

  • Play an active role in ongoing tech transformation initiatives across the platform

  • Collaborate closely with engineers, product, and other stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions used by millions globally

Requirements

  • Solid experience with Node.js/TypeScript is ideal, but we also welcome experts in other OOP languages such as Java, Python, C++, C#, or Go

  • Strong understanding of asynchronous programming techniques

  • Deep production experience with Kafka: confident reasoning about consumer-group rebalances and their impact on in-flight processing, offset-commit strategies under retries and duplicate delivery, and the limits of "exactly-once" semantics

  • Experience designing idempotent, retry-safe handlers for at-least-once pipelines: transactional outbox, idempotency keys, and deduplication

  • Experience building services with gRPC or similar RPC frameworks

  • Strong knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, plus production experience with at least one NoSQL technology at scale, such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, or Redis

  • Hands-on experience running services on Kubernetes and AWS/GCP: deployment, autoscaling, resource limits, and production debugging

  • Production operations experience: on-call ownership of a high-load system, including incident response, impact assessment, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvements

Nice to Have

  • Experience with ClickHouse or other columnar/analytical databases

  • Experience with multi-region / failover architectures: data replication, regional isolation, and graceful degradation

  • Practical use of AI coding agents such as Cursor or Claude Code as part of daily development: effective prompting, reviewing, and validating AI-generated code

  • Understanding of application security and industry best practices

  • Gambling domain experience

What We Offer

  • Competitive Salary

  • Quarterly Bonuses

  • Unlimited Paid Time Off

  • Unlimited Paid Sick Leave

  • Remote & Flexible Working

  • Private Medical Insurance

  • Financial Support for Life Events

  • Professional Development Budget

  • International Exposure

  • Regular Company Events

*Benefits may vary depending on location and contractual agreement

Recruitment process

1. HR interview (30-45mins)

2. Interview with a Hiring Manager (45mins)

3. Technical interview with live coding (90mins)

4. Final Interview with C-level (60 mins)
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