Your missionAs a Senior Backend Engineer at Playtomic, you will be responsible for developing robust and scalable solutions for our product, ensuring high performance, consistent and secure transactions.In Playtomic we operate in pods.

A pod is a small, cross-functional team that owns a domain end-to-end: it takes a framed problem, makes the key product/technical decisions, and is responsible and accountable for building, delivering, and learning from the outcome in production.You operate as a pod owner: you take decisions, set technical direction in your domain, and pull in the right people when a problem crosses boundaries.

Hands-on, but the senior bar is judgment — what to build, where the risk lives, and how to keep a distributed system healthy in production.What you'll be doing- Develop and maintain APIs and their services, enabling seamless communication between the frontend and backend, and facilitating third-party integrations to enhance the overall functionality of our product.

- Take end-to-end ownership of your domain: from technical design to delivery and production health, making autonomous decisions and driving initiatives with limited guidance.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, product designers and frontend/mobile engineers, bringing product thinking to devise solutions that balance technical excellence with business impact.
- Ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from the frontend.
- Maintain a high code quality by continuously optimizing and improving our backend through code reviews, profiling,



and implementing best practices and company's standards.
- Leverage AI tools and agentic coding pipelines in your day-to-day to ship faster and raise the bar on what you deliver.Our Adecuado "Player"- Spain remote ideally: located in Madrid or able to commute to Madrid several times per month.
- Proven experience as a Backend Engineer.

Familiarity with the whole web stack, including protocols, system architecture, database design, and web server optimization techniques.

In particular, experience with Spring Boot 3 &4, Java 17 and 21, MongoDB, MySQL (Aurora), Kubernetes is preferred.

- Extensive experience in designing, developing, and maintaining APIs.
- High sense of ownership and accountability for outcomes, not just implementation.

Comfortable making decisions and driving initiatives independently.

- Product mindset: sound product intuition and a customer-first approach, making technical decisions with clear impact on users and the business.
- Pragmatism and delivery focus, with comfort operating in ambiguity and a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing technical challenges.




- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, able to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Curiosity and adaptability: willing to step outside your immediate area of expertise and experience different aspects of product development.
- AI fluency: uses AI tools in day-to-day work and is familiar with the relevant tools and processes.
- Excellent spoken and written English is a must.
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.Extra points- Experience in product-led startups and scale-ups.
- Production-ready experience building software with LLMs and running agentic coding pipelines to develop functionality.
- Experience working with remote, partially remote, and multicultural teams.Our hiring process- 1st interview with People Team- 2nd Tech assessment & Tech interview- 3rd interview with Engineering Managers.
- 4rd interview with our Product team.About PLAYTOMICWe are world's largest racket sports App for players and clubs.

Our goal is to socialize sports practice: through the app, players can book courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social community dedicated to playing.Since ****, Playtomic has earned the trust of national and international investors, consolidating it as one of the main world players in sports digitalization.

You will find +150 co-workers around the world with headquarters in Spain and offices in Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, UK, EEUU and Mexico.

📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 Playtomic
📍 Madrid