Senior Backend Engineer

Position at LeoVegas Group

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join our team as a Senior Software Engineer and play a crucial role in driving our organisation's growth through the development of outstanding products.

LeoVegas Group is building something special – a world-class team dedicated to creating the best Sportsbook 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 LeoVegas 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 Sportsbook Team!

In Sportsbook 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.

YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• 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.

**OUR SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:**ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• 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 NoSQL 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.

NICE TO HAVES:

• 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

WHO WE ARE

At the core of LeoVegas Group is Team Leo. Our culture is our foundation and is what enables us to innovate, build, and lead as we trailblaze our way through the igaming industry. We’re a team of over 2000 innovators, initiators, and groundbreakers working in a fast-paced and agile environment across 19 offices worldwide.

BENEFITS

Hybrid work policy

4 weeks of Workation (T&C apply)

30 annual vacation days

Occupational Pension

5,000 SEK wellness contribution annually

Parental Leave Top-Up

Possibility to enroll in a private health care insurance for both you and your partner

1,500 SEK equipment allowance

Benify - benefits portal with many offers and discounts

We offer a relocation package with accommodation and flights.

JOIN US!

In our pride, we empower our teammates to find their roar and run with their wildest ideas. We don’t wait for things to happen; we pounce and make it happen!

Would you be a good fit for the Leo Pride - give us a roar!

**As our company working language is English, we’d like to see your CV in English, please**