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

📌 Staff Backend Engineer (Málaga)
🏢 LeoVegas
📍 Málaga