Senior Backend Engineer (Boosters)

Playson · European Union

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About the Role

Our promotional features team is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. This role is focused on developing and optimising promotional features for our gaming platforms, where performance, scalability, and cutting-edge solutions are paramount.
If you’re a product-passionate person, your mind is keen to solve deep tech engineering problems, and you have a fast "PoC first" approach with a deep sense of ownership, we would love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain robust backend systems for our promotional features.

• Optimize existing systems for enhanced performance and scalability.

• Lead technical decisions and contribute to our SaaS solutions.

• Collaborate with distributed teams to innovate and implement new features.

• Ensure code and architectural excellence through reviews.

• Address complex technical challenges with innovative solutions.

• Participating in on-call rotations within the squad to help ensure the reliability and availability of our systems.

Requirments

• Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript (our primary backend stack). We’re also open to strong backend engineers from other ecosystems (e.g., Go, Java, C#, C++) who are ready to ramp up quickly.

• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming and concurrency patterns.

• Experience building distributed systems and working with messaging and coordination tools (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, distributed locks).

• Experience with gRPC in production environments.

• Solid knowledge of databases: relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL), columnar (ClickHouse), and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB).

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and Kubernetes.

• Skilled in building and maintaining unit and end-to-end tests.

• Proven track record of delivering production-ready solutions.

• Experience working with large-scale microservices architectures.

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Nice to Have

• Understanding of enterprise development patterns

• Experienced with large-scale microservices architecture

• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, etc.)

• Active performance observation

• Gambling domain experience

• Understanding of application security and industry standards, its best practice
  

What We Offer

• Competitive Salary

• Quarterly Bonuses

• Unlimited Paid Time Off

• Unlimited Paid Sick Leave

• Remote & Flexible Working

• Private Medical Insurance

• Financial Support for Life Events

• Professional Development Budget

• International Exposure

• Regular Company Events

*Benefits may vary depending on location and contractual agreement

Recruitment Process

• HR interview

• Technical interview (with Live coding)

• Final interview

Please take into account that sometimes the process may differ, your TA Partner will keep you updated.

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