Senior Backend Engineer

Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We care about each customer's interaction, experience, behaviour, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always acting authentically.

Rooted in the kindred spirits of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known all over the world as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space.

What we’re looking for?

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to work on our casino platform supporting in backend implementation. As a senior-level backend engineer, you will:

• Be a technical point of contact for various stakeholders
• Be technically talented, able to contribute quality code, and being passionate about the technology
• Be responsible for the quality, scope, and timeliness of all your deliverable
• Because we operate with a startup mindset, we will be reliant on your technical skill, but also your passion and ownership over all aspects of your work.

We are looking for an engineer who is willing to tackle problems with innovative ideas and quality technical implementations. We believe the perfect individual isn’t interested in just what we’re building right now, but wants to understand where we’re going and how it impacts the customer to ensure everything we create moves us closer to our goal: delivering the best customer experience.

The ideal individual will have:

• Degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent work experience (6+ years)
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Extensive experience with Java (specifically Java 11+) and Spring / SpringBoot
• A general understanding of AWS Cloud technologies and how to create scalable multi-region applications
• Experience working within an agile development.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)
• Experience with Micro-Service architectures
• Experience with Sports betting and Casinos is a plus

Experience with the following technologies:

• AWS Serverless and serverless-supported languages (nice to have)
•  DB (ex, Postgresql, CocroachDB)
• Event Streaming Platforms (Kafka)
• Message Queues (SQS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ)