Senior Backend Engineer Gaming

Backend Engineer

Join our dynamic Gaming Platform Team, comprising 20 developers and QA experts dedicated to developing and maintaining our cutting-edge Gaming Engine. As a Backend Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in utilizing the latest technologies to craft cloud-based, distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant microservices capable of handling a staggering volume of gaming transactions—approximately 1.3 billion per month. Collaborating closely with stakeholders, including the Regulatory Reporting Team and game operations teams, you'll spearhead innovative projects such as LeoJackpot while ensuring seamless API integrations and optimizing performance for an unparalleled gaming experience. This role is perfect for software craftsmen who thrive in an environment of continual learning, value effective communication, and are eager to push the boundaries of technology within the gaming industry.

You will be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining microservices using Java, Spring, and JPA
• Integrating new gaming providers into the platform via API integration
• Optimizing performance and scalability of backend systems
• Collaborating with frontend teams to expose game data via APIs

Our successful candidate will have:

• Essential skills
• 5+ years of experience with common Java frameworks such as Spring and JPA
• Relational databases such as MySQL
• Building scalable and fault-tolerant systems and are familiar with microservices
• Git/Github
• Issue trackers such as Jira
• Self-motivated and proactive mindset, taking initiative to drive ideas forward
• Nice to haves
• Experience with elasticsearch, Kafka, Kotlin, Akka, Hazelcast, Consul, Datadog, DOCKER, Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform
• Experience in the Gaming Industry

Who are we?

At the core of LeoVegas Group, is Team Leo. Our culture is our foundation and is what enables us to innovate, build, and lead as we trailblaze our way through the igaming industry. We're a team of over 1800 innovators, initiators, and groundbreakers working in a fast-paced and agile environment across 16 offices worldwide.

Benefits

• Hybrid work policy
• 4 weeks of Workation (T&C apply)
• 25 vacation days
• Health insurance (we use Alan)
• Life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (free emotional, legal, and financial support)
• Short Fridays - we work until 16:00
• 300 EUR wellness contribution annually
• Cobee - benefits app with flexible compensations and discounts
• Complimentary snacks and drinks in our offices, Monday breakfast and Wednesday fika (Swedish break for coffee and something sweet)
• Team and office social events throughout the year.
• We offer a relocation package with accommodation and flights.

Join us!

In our pride, we like to empower our teammates to find their roar and run with their wildest ideas. We don't wait around for things to happen, we pounce and make it happen! If you think you would be a good fit for the Leo pride - give us a roar! As our company working language is English we'd like to see your CV in English please.