Overview

As Staff Backend Engineer in LeoVegas Sports, you lead the design and evolution of distributed systems that power real-time sports data, trading and pricing for millions of customers. You’ll provide technical leadership while staying hands-on to raise engineering standards and balance long-term platform health with business needs. You collaborate across teams to simplify complexity, improve reliability, and drive scalable, event-driven architectures that live at the heart of a high-performance sportsbook platform. This role blends architecture guidance with practical delivery and mentorship, shaping our future in a fast-paced, data-intensive domain.

Compensaciones / Incentivos

- Hybrid work policy (2 days from home)
- Workation (4 weeks)
- 300 EUR wellness contribution annually
- Health insurance (Alan)
- Life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program

Responsabilidades

- Lead architecture and design discussions for scalable, resilient distributed systems and validate options via spikes and PoCs
- Drive simplification of complex systems while maintaining performance and code quality
- Identify and mitigate scalability, resiliency, and operational risks before production
- Improve observability, monitoring and readiness; reduce technical debt
- Promote event-driven architectures, performance optimisation, testing, automation, and CI/CD
- Mentor engineers through reviews, pairing,



and technical guidance
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering Managers and Architects to translate problems into practical solutions
- Contribute to a culture of ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement

Requisitos principales

- Proven experience designing, building and operating distributed systems at scale in production
- Strong backend Java experience (preferably Java 21+), JVM internals, concurrency and multithreading
- Hands-on with Reactive Programming and non-blocking systems using Spring Boot and/or Vert.x
- Experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures; familiarity with Redis or NATS
- Experience with Redis caching and with SQL/NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB)
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Kibana) and debugging production incidents
- Strong system design and architectural decision-making; balancing latency, throughput, consistency and maintainability
- Ability to influence technical decisions and communicate with engineers, product managers and stakeholders

- Collaborative mindset
- Ownership and proactive leadership
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Java 21+
- Spring Boot and/or Vert.x
- Reactive programming and non-blocking systems

📌 Staff Backend Engineer - Sports - málaga
🏢 LeoVegas
📍 Málaga