Backend Engineer - Sportsbook

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join our team as a Backend 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 our current Betting 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:

• 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.
• 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.
• After some time working at LeoVegas, you will also be asked to be available on-call a maximum of once per quarter (for a week of on-call availability you will get an additional 2500 PLN net + additional paid days off)

OUR SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING:

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• 3+ years of software development experience with Java, Spring Boot and Event-Driven Architectures.
• Experience with Microservices Architecture, Containerization (Docker) and Kafka messaging systems.
• Hands-on experience developing highly scalable RESTful Microservices.
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and caching.
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment of self-organised teams, where written and verbal communication are key; while being capable of articulating technical decisions and offering valuable recommendations to the team.

NICE TO HAVES

• Familiarity with Reactive Programming (e.g. RxJava) and Vert.x would be a big plus.
• Experience with distributed and real-time systems.
• Online gaming, gambling or sports betting experience.

WHO WE ARE

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.

What we offer:

• 💸monthly salary: 20 000 - 26 000 PLN net VAT (B2B) OR 16 500 - 21 500 gross PLN (UOP)
• you can work in a hybrid model, we would like you to show up in our Warsaw office three times a week, the rest of the days of the week are up to you,
• we work in European office hours,
• ​​800 PLN monthly for benefits (we have a platform with sport cards and different options for private healthcare),
• welcome package,
• no dress code,
• international teams,
• 💻 Equipment: MacBook Pro 16"/14'' + smartphone (iPhone 15 or Samsung Galaxy S24 - it’s your choice).

Our office:

• located in the centre of Warsaw (Koszykowa 65), in Mindspace (check it here). 
• pet-friendly 🐕
• bike parking 🚲
• chillout zones (we have a billiard table too! 🎱)
• speciality coffee made by a professional barista ☕️
• free snacks 🥜
• company breakfast every Monday 🥪
• weekly events (like yoga sessions or tasting delicious food and drinks).

Our recruitment process:

1. 45-minute phone/Zoom call with our recruiter
2. 1-hour technical interview with the live coding task
3. 30-minute technical interview focused on architecture
4. max. 40 min online personality and logic test
5. 1-hour cultural fit interview

**As our company working language is English, we’d like to see your CV in English please**

More about us:

Careers site: www.leovegasgroup.com/careers

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leovegasgroup/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/lifeatleo/