Senior Backend Engineer - Sports

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.

Leo Vegas Group is building something special – a world‑class team dedicated to creating the best Sports book 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 Leo Vegas 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 Sports book Team!

In Sports book 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.

• Taking ownership, problem‑solving and collaborating with other teams.
• Designing and implementing from idea to production.
• Building for scale, availability, performance and security across the stack.
• Working with product managers, architects, QA engineers and other developers in a highly collaborative agile environment.
• Integrating new products and building internal services to support our ecosystem.
• Conducting code reviews and mentoring team members.
• Ensuring services are production‑ready, observable, and maintainable through monitoring, alerting, and on‑call participation.

• 6+ Years of software development experience with Java, Spring Boot and Event‑Driven Architectures.
• Experience designing microservices, K8s, containerization (Docker) and Kafka messaging systems.
• Knowledge of relational and No
  
  SQL databases and caching.
• Implementing resilience patterns (e.g., retries, circuit breakers, graceful degradation).
• Designing and maintaining monitoring dashboards (e.g., metrics, logs, traces) and alerts to proactively detect issues.
• Hands‑on experience developing highly scalable RESTful end‑to‑end microservices.

• Familiarity with Reactive Programming (e.g. RxJava) and Vert.x would be a big plus.
• Experience in platforms like AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
• Online gaming and gambling experience.

• Hybrid work policy
• 4 weeks of Workation (T&C apply)
• Benefits package - 800 PLN net (B2B)/gross (UOP) monthly with access to the cafeteria platform (private medical care, insurances, sports card)
• Training budgetICAS assistance program that can provide help and guidance during challenging moments.
• Our office provides complimentary snacks and drinks; on Mondays, we serve complimentary breakfast.
• Team and office social events throughout the year
• Free parking for bicycles and motorcycles
• Free gym in the building
• Equipment:
  Mac Book Pro + smartphone (iPhone 16/17 or Samsung Galaxy S25)

Company working language is English. Please provide your CV in English.