Staff Backend Engineer

Location: Poland only, fully remote

Job Type: B2B, full time

Overview

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’s the position?

We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Casino Technology Team, responsible for continuous growth and support of our Casino and Sportsbook apps.

As a staff-level backend engineer, you will:

• Contribute to the design and implementation of complex features

• Work with other Staff Engineers, Principal Engineers and Architects across the entire Technical Team

• Be a technical point of contact for various stakeholders such as Engineering Managers, Technical VPs and Product Managers

• Be technically talented, able to contribute quality code, and be passionate about the technology

• Perform Code Reviews and coach Developers on why certain technical approaches need to be taken

• Be responsible for the quality, scope, and timeliness of all your deliverables

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.

Requirements

What are we looking for?

We are looking for an engineer who is willing to tackle problems with innovative ideas and quality technical implementations. Staff Engineers need to design, and help developers build, systems that can process huge numbers of transactions and user interactions in a scalable manner while focusing on giving our customers the best experience possible.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Min of 8+ years work experience

• Strong communication skills in English (both written and verbal)

• Experience working for a company with large volumes of traffic, where every technical decision needs to be able to carry the load of our customer base

• A deep understanding of AWS Cloud technologies and how to create scalable multi-region applications

• Experience with the following technologies:

  • Java and Spring / SpringBoot

  • RDBMS (ex, Postgresql, CockroachDB)

o   Streaming technologies (Amazon Kinesis, Kafka)

o   Message Queues (SQS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ)

• Experience working within an agile development

• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)

• Experience with Micro-Service and Service oriented architectures

• Nice to have experience in the Casino industry or an equivalent regulated industry such as Banking