Role Overview
We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and development of high-scale backend systems for our Gaming Integrations team. This is a hands-on IC role focused on building modern, resilient infrastructure and accelerating our adoption of AI across the platform. You'll play a critical part in architectural decisions, mentoring engineers and setting the foundation to up-level and scale the team, while working with cutting-edge tools.
Responsibilities
- Own the software lifecycle: define templates, checklists, and playbooks for provider integration—from due diligence and certification to rollout, monitoring, incident response, and deprecation.
- Unblock delivery: dive into designs/PRs/spikes where needed to remove technical or organizational blockers—without becoming a single point of failure.
- Shape the roadmap: contribute to multi-quarter technical strategy for integrations, influence the multi-quarter roadmap by identifying platform gaps, vendor risks, and scalability constraints—balancing long-term resilience with short-term delivery.
- Raise the bar on code & architecture: set patterns for API contracts, reliability, observability, testing, and versioning; reduce complexity and tech debt with clear guardrails.
- Establish crisp engineering rituals: pragmatic planning, estimation, risk tracking, and stakeholder status; lead critical project reviews and improve signal-to-noise in updates.
- Be a role model for other engineers: Champion high standards, demonstrate ownership, share knowledge, represent the team with product, compliance, security, data, SRE, and external providers.
About Us
We are a global technology company dedicated to building the future of entertainment and fan-centric experiences. With commercial markets in Brazil, Belgium, Poland, Romania, and Serbia, our company has evolved from a leading sports betting and gaming operator into a diversified product and tech organization, gathering more than 5,000 dedicated people across our teams. Our product and technology teams in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Madrid (Spain), Zagreb (Croatia), London (UK), and Bucharest (Romania) are building the playstack that will champion the future of play.
Our ambitious growth strategy focuses on expanding across Europe and Latin America while delivering immersive customer experiences and creating lasting value for our customers, partners, and communities. The company’s long-term strategy is supported by world-class investors.
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years in software engineering, with 3–4 years leading complex backend work where you raised team standards (process, design, testing, documentation).
- Hands-on with Node.js + TypeScript delivering production services and integrations.
- Kubernetes in production, running and debugging Node.js services and comfort with modern CI/CD.
- REST APIs: designing robust, versioned, well-documented contracts.
- System Design – Proven ability to design scalable, distributed systems
- Architecture – Experience defining and evolving software architecture at scale
- Testing – Define and champion test strategies that improve speed, confidence, and reliability across integration pipelines.
- AI Adoption – Explore and prototype applications of AI to improve observability, automate integrations, or assist developer workflows.
- Operational maturity: SLIs/SLOs, on-call/runbooks, and blameless incident reviews that drive learning.
- Stakeholder presence: clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
Nice to have
- Experience in gaming/fintech/e-commerce integrations (catalogs, wallets, identity, compliance).
- Event-driven patterns (e.g., Kafka) and low-latency/high-throughput systems.
- NestJS – Familiarity with modular, server-side frameworks
- AWS Services – Experience with services like DynamoDB, Cognito, S3, and Secrets Manager
