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 / Ventajas 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