Backend Engineer - Sports (UK market)

Join our newly formed tech team in Leeds as a Senior Backend Engineer. In this role you will be an integral part of our team, contributing to the development and maintenance of our robust and scalable technology stack. Working with the latest technologies, you will help build and enhance our cloud-based platforms, ensuring they are distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant to meet the specific demands of the UK betting market and our rapidly growing user base. This role offers an exciting opportunity for you who are passionate about technology, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, and are committed to delivering exceptional results. If you are someone who thrives on challenges, values teamwork, and is eager to make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you! YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Developing, designing, and refactoring microservices.
• Conducting code reviews and providing mentorship to team members.
• Integrating new products and building internal services to support our ecosystem.
• Taking ownership of problem-solving, collaborating with other teams when necessary.
  
  You have experience with common Java frameworks such as Spring and JPA
• Experience with Kotlin
• Demonstrated ability to build services from scratch.
• You're no stranger to working with relational databases such as MySQL
• You have experience in building scalable and fault-tolerant systems and are familiar with microservice architectures
NICE TO HAVES:
• Familiarity with additional technologies such as Akka, Hazelcast, Elasticsearch, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Consul, Google Cloud Platform, and BigQuery., If you think you would 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
  
  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 1400 innovators, initiators, and groundbreakers working in a fast-paced and agile environment across 11 offices world-wide.
  
  Hybrid work policy
• 4 weeks of Workation (T&C apply)
• 28 days paid leave + public/bank holidays in England
• Matched pension contributions up to 6%
• BUPA healthcare which covers pre-existing conditions plus a cash-back plan to support with dental, optical & other treatments
• 250 GBP wellness contribution annually (T&C apply)
• Complimentary snacks and drinks. We also serve breakfast on Mondays and lunch on Fridays.
• Team and office social events throughout the year, which also include a quarterly team budget
• Enhanced parental leave