Senior Software Engineer; iGaming

Imagine building world-class sports betting and gaming platforms steps from the ocean, with Table Mountain as your daily backdrop.

This is not a cliché. This is your commute.

Our clients Cape Town engineering hub is a core pillar of a global sports media and sports betting ecosystem, responsible for delivering high-performance, in-house gaming software used by millions of fans worldwide.

This team doesnt follow trends — they set them. If you thrive on complex systems, clean architecture, and real-world scale, and you want your code to power brands that sit at the intersection of sport, technology, and entertainment, read on.

• Designing and building scalable backend services in Java and Spring that support betting, media, and real-time sports products.
• Owning end-to-end feature delivery — from design through implementation, deployment, and post-release optimisation.
• Working on high-throughput, low-latency systems where performance, resilience, and security genuinely matter.
• Writing clean, testable, production-ready code and holding the bar high through code reviews and design discussions.
• Collaborating directly with Product and other engineers to shape solutions, not just implement tickets.
• Designing and optimising relational data models, writing efficient SQL, and managing migrations without breaking production.
• Improving developer experience — tooling, pipelines, performance, observability.
• Using AI tools pragmatically (Copilot, Agent Space) to accelerate delivery, not replace thinking.
• Participating in Agile delivery without ceremony overload — stand-ups, planning, retros that actually lead to change.

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, AMQP, Spring Security
• Databases: MySQL, MongoDB
• Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Cloud: GCP
• Frontend (exposure): VueJS, Angular
• Version Control: Git Hub
• IDE: Intelli
  
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• Testing & APIs: Cypress, Postman
• CI/CD & Containers: Docker, modern pipelines

You should be comfortable with:

• Building enterprise-grade Java applications with strong OO design.
• Deep hands-on experience with the Spring ecosystem.
• Designing systems that are maintainable, observable, and scalable.
• Writing SQL that doesnt make DBAs cry.
• Using Git properly — branches, pull requests, reviews, ownership.
• Mentoring engineers and raising standards without ego.
• Thinking in trade-offs, not absolutes.

Bonus points for:

• Experience in iGaming, betting, fintech, or other regulated, high-scale environments.
• CI/CD ownership, Docker, or cloud infrastructure exposure.
• Frontend awareness (you dont have to love it, just understand it).
• Performance tuning, message-driven systems, or event-based architectures.

• Youre trusted with real responsibility.
• Technical decisions are debated, not dictated.
• You work with people who care about code quality and outcomes.
• The systems are complex enough to stay interesting.
• The office just happens to be on the Cape Town beachfront.

• Discovery Medical Aid
• 21 days annual leave
• Discretionary company performance bonus
• A mature engineering culture that values output over noise

Good engineers rarely are.

If you enjoy solving hard problems, shipping real systems, and working with people who take engineering seriously — apply.