Staff Software Engineer

Description

Position at LeoVegas Group

About The Role

Join our team as a Staff Software 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/expanding our current Betting/Trading 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:

• Design and implement from idea to production.
• 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.
• As a Staff developer you will have a key role in owning delivery plans and aligning the product importance of reducing technical debt and prioritising platform initiatives.
• 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.
  
  

OUR SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING:

Essential Skills

• 8+ years of software development experience with Java, Spring Boot and Event-Driven Architectures.
• Experience designing Microservices, Containerization (Docker) and Kafka messaging systems.
• Strong focus on application stability, resilience, and observability, including:
• Designing and maintaining monitoring dashboards (e.g., metrics, logs, traces)
• Setting up and tuning alerts to proactively detect issues
• Implementing resilience patterns (e.g., retries, circuit breakers, graceful degradation)
• Driving production readiness and reliability improvements
• Hands-on experience developing highly scalable RESTful end-to-end Microservices.
• Experience with automation and monitoring.
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases and caching. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, acting as a technical representative of the team with the ability to communicate technical challenges to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment of self-organized teams.
  
  

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.

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• Online gaming and gambling 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.

Benefits

• Hybrid work policy
• 4 weeks of Workation (T&C apply)
• 25 vacation days
• 300 EUR wellness contribution annually
• Cobee - benefits app with flexible compensations and discounts
• Our office provides complimentary snacks and drinks; on Mondays, we serve breakfast.
• Team and office social events throughout the year.
• We offer a relocation package with accommodation and flights.
  
  

JOIN US!

In our pride, we empower our teammates to find their roar and run with their wildest ideas. We don’t wait for things to happen; we pounce and make it happen!

Would you 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**