Backend Engineer - Sports - Leovegas

As a Backend Engineer in Málaga, you will advance the Sportsbook domain by delivering scalable, secure backends and shaping the architecture. You’ll collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to validate designs and drive impactful solutions. The role focuses on building production-ready services, improving observability, and mentoring teammates, all within a fast-paced, agile environment. This is an opportunity to influence backend direction and contribute to the company’s mission in igaming.

• Hybrid work policy (2 days/week from home)
• 4 weeks of Workation
• 300 EUR wellness contribution annually
• Health insurance (Alan)
• Life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Own problems and collaborate across teams to design and implement solutions from idea to production
• Build scalable, available, high-performance, and secure services across the stack
• Work with product managers, architects, QA engineers, and developers in an agile setting
• Integrate new products and develop internal services to support the ecosystem
• Conduct code reviews and mentor teammates to raise engineering quality
• Ensure production readiness through monitoring, alerts, and on-call participation
• 4+ years of software development experience with Java and Spring Boot
• Experience with event-driven architectures and designing microservices
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, and Kafka messaging systems
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and caching
• Experience building highly scalable RESTful microservices
• Experience designing monitoring dashboards (metrics, logs, traces) and alerts
• Collaborative mindset in cross-functional teams
• Problem-solving and proactive communication
• Mentoring and code-review mindset
• Java
• Spring Boot
• Event-driven architectures

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