Lead Backend Engineer

5 Days ago • 15 Years + • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will provide guidance and support to development teams throughout the software lifecycle. You'll spearhead a team working on an award-winning platform, overseeing projects, coaching developers, and ensuring scalability, flexibility, and resilience of solutions. Responsibilities include maintaining a productive work environment, leveraging understanding of the igaming industry to inform architectural solutions, collaborating with architects and other leads on performance optimizations and architectural decisions, designing and documenting technical architecture, providing technical guidance, evaluating technology stacks, driving best practices, and staying current with industry trends. The role emphasizes fast time to market, operational scalability, and automation.
Must have:
  • 15+ years software development experience (3+ years leadership)
  • C# and .NET expertise (.NET Core, .NET 6, WebAPI)
  • Event-driven & microservice architectures
  • Kubernetes deployment experience
  • SQL proficiency (profiling, database design)
  • Redis caching experience
  • Client/server or N-tier architectures
  • B2B igaming software development experience
Good to have:
  • Knowledge of operator and platform requirements
  • Proficiency in open-source technologies
  • CI/CD pipeline experience
  • Observability principles and tools
  • NUnit or XUnit testing framework experience
Perks:
  • Great career development opportunities
  • Hybrid working model
  • International Health Insurance
  • Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
  • Birthday Day Off
  • Me Time - 1 day off per year

Job Details

Description

As a Lead Backend Engineer, your role involves providing guidance and support to development teams throughout the planning, design, development, and delivery phases of enterprise-level software solutions. Your profound technical proficiency, combined with a comprehensive understanding of the industry, will play a crucial role in guaranteeing the appropriateness, scalability, flexibility, and resilience of our software solutions.

In your role, you will spearhead a team of talented developers working on an award winning platform across multiple jurisdictions. You will oversee the whole lifecycle of the projects they undertake whilst coaching and inspiring them to reach their goals. As a Technical Lead you should always be learning to be able to spot problems fast, be accountable, trustworthy, and be able to build long lasting relationships, both within and outside the team. The chosen candidate will emphasize the importance of fast time to market, operational scalability, and automation to accelerate the platform’s growth and market entries.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintaining a productive working environment for development teams.
  • Leverage a good understanding of the igaming industry, provider/operator environment,operator pain points, and translate them into architectural solutions.
  • Working hand in hand with Solutions Architects and other Technical Leads; mediating technical debates, participating in building solutions for performance optimisations, and leading discussions on decisions that might constrain or broaden future architectural choices.
  • Design, develop and document the technical architecture of our products, considering scalability, performance, security, and integration requirements.
  • Provide technical guidance and leadership to the development teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Evaluate and recommend technology stacks, frameworks, and third-party tools to support the development and deployment of our software solution.
  • Drive the adoption of best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns to ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and scalable software.
  • Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in both the igaming industry, and software architecture.

Requirements

Mandatory Requirements:

  • Extensive experience developing solutions in the B2B software industry within the igaming space.
  • At least 15 years of software development experience, with at least 3 years experience as a leader with a focus on C# and .NET. and able to demonstrate the use of the latest .NET Technologies (.NET Core, .NET6, WebAPI).
  • Strong knowledge and hands on experience with event driven architectures and microservice architectures.
  • Expertise in designing and deploying applications on Kubernetes.
  • Strong experience with SQL including profiling and database design.
  • Experience with caching objects using Redis.
  • Experience with client/server or N-tier architectures.

Nice to Have:

  • Knowledge of common operator and platform requirements, including both regulatory and operational requirements.
  • Proficiency in leveraging open-source technologies to reduce operational costs and enhance product capabilities.
  • Experience with automation tools and practices, including CI/CD pipelines Solid understanding of observability principles and tools.
  • Experience with testing frameworks such as NUnit or XUnit.

Benefits

  • Great career development opportunities
  • Hybrid working model
  • International Health Insurance
  • Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
  • Birthday Day Off
  • Me Time - 1 day off per year

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About The Company

We are an award-winning iGaming platform and sportsbook provider supplying industry-leading solutions to our partners and their players. We specialise in helping online and land-based operators expand their iGaming and sports betting business on a global scale, focusing on innovation and customisation to power localised customer experiences and intimate user journeys. As a regulated markets specialist, we offer compliant entry into 36+ complex regulated markets around the world.


Our powerful iGaming platform is built to be scalable, open and user-centric, rapidly integrating with our partners' existing tech and preferred third parties. It provides a personalised user experience through our suite of real-time marketing tools, real-time data, and real-time rules engine, allowing our partners to build their own automated bespoke rules, without the need for coding knowledge.


Our sportsbook is built mobile-first and provides a premium player experience through our Bet builder, comprehensive Live betting capabilities and Player props. Our partners benefit from tailored odds, personalised margins, and risk management strategy, increasing the players’ personalised experience. Our partners benefit from an in-house trading team available 24/7 through direct communication channels, delivering unparalleled agility and service to all our partners, around the clock.


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