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Staff Backend Engineer - Content Distribution Engineering
SpainPosted 18 days agoFull-time
Job details
Company
LeoVegas Group
Location
Spain
Employment type
Full-time
Seniority
Lead
Primary category
IT Operations
Posted date
20 Apr 2026
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Job description
ABOUT THE ROLEJoin our team as a Staff Software Engineer and play a crucial role in driving our organisation's growth through the development of outstanding products. LeoVegas Group is building something special – a world-class team dedicated to creating the best Sportsbook platform in the market through cutting-edge technology and innovative gaming experiences. This is a dynamic team that will be working on creating new cool features and integrating them into LeoVegas platforms.We’re seeking a dynamic individual who can deliver state-of-the-art code while prioritising performance and scalability. We are recruiting for our Tiger Sportsbook Team!In Sportsbook we work in a high-volume, real-time environment, integrating data feeds with our modern trading system and transactional betting platform (UI/Backend). Your contributions will cover maintaining/expanding our current Betting/Trading services as well as building new services and capabilities for our users. As a key member of our team, you’ll collaborate effectively while also demonstrating initiative and a passion for sharing innovative ideas. YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:
- Design and implement from idea to production.
- Build, maintain, deploy, test and enhance our products and features.
- Work with state-of-the-art technology stack and deliver features in our microservice ecosystem.
- As a Staff developer you will have a key role in owning delivery plans and aligning the product importance of reducing technical debt and prioritising platform initiatives.
- Identify obstacles to ensure quality and improve our user experience and how we build our products.
- Work with product managers, architects, QA engineers and other developers in a highly collaborative agile environment.
- Build for scale, availability, performance and security across the stack.
- 8+ years of software development experience with Java, Spring Boot and Event-Driven Architectures.
- Experience designing Microservices, Containerization (Docker) and Kafka messaging systems.
- Strong focus on application stability, resilience, and observability, including:
- Designing and maintaining monitoring dashboards (e.g., metrics, logs, traces)
- Setting up and tuning alerts to proactively detect issues
- Implementing resilience patterns (e.g., retries, circuit breakers, graceful degradation)
- Driving production readiness and reliability improvements
- Hands-on experience developing highly scalable RESTful end-to-end Microservices.
- Experience with automation and monitoring.
- Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and caching.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, acting as a technical representative of the team with the ability to communicate technical challenges to non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfortable working in an Agile environment of self-organized teams.
- Familiarity with Reactive Programming (e.g. RxJava) and Vert.x would be a big plus.
- Experience with distributed and real-time systems.
- Online gaming and gambling experience
- Hybrid work policy
- 4 weeks of Workation (T&C apply)
- 25 vacation days
- 300 EUR wellness contribution annually
- Cobee - benefits app with flexible compensations and discounts
- Our office provides complimentary snacks and drinks; on Mondays, we serve breakfast.
- Team and office social events throughout the year.
- We offer a relocation package with accommodation and flights.