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Senior Backend Engineer - SportsLeoVegas Mobile Gaming Group · Málaga, Spain
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Senior Backend Engineer - Sports

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-05 Málaga, Spain Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 3,750 EUR–5,417 EUR/mo

About the Company

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 21 offices worldwide.

About the Role

Join our dynamic team in Málaga as a Senior Backend Engineer. In this role, you will play a crucial part in our Sportsbook domain, by working on the most impactful problems and being able to bring about change with effective momentum. You'll collaborate closely with our Staff Engineers, participating in tech meetings, validating architectural decisions, and ensuring seamless communication flow. Additionally, you'll work collaboratively with various teams, contributing to planning, tech solutions discussions, and feature development. This role offers a unique opportunity to drive solutions and actively shape our backend architecture.

Responsibilities

  • ● 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:

Requirements

  • ● + Years of software development experience with Java, Spring Boot and Event-Driven Architectures.
  • ● 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.
  • ● Online gaming and gambling experience

Benefits

  • ● Hybrid work policy (2 days a week of working from home)
  • ● weeks of Workation (T&C apply)
  • ● EUR wellness contribution annually
  • ● Health insurance
  • ● Flexible compensation: Payment through gross salary, savings of up to 30%.
  • ● Life insurance
  • ● Employee Assistance Program (free psychological wellbeing)
  • ● Short Fridays - we work until 16:00
  • ● August Intensive schedule (9:00 - 16:00)
  • ● Complimentary snacks and drinks in our offices, Monday breakfast and Wednesday fika (Swedish break for coffee and something sweet)
  • ● Team and office social events throughout the year
  • ● Career development opportunities
  • ● Upskilling budget
  • ● Team activities
  • ● Cool central office in Malaga with a hybrid work model
  • ● An autonomous work environment where you can apply your skills and experience in ways that work best for you
  • ● Working with an international and dynamic team
  • ● 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