Lead Backend Engineer

Overview Lead Backend Engineer role at Gaming Innovation Group. Location : Barcelona, Spain. Application Deadline : 31 December 2025.

Description As a Lead Backend Engineer, your role involves providing guidance and support to development teams throughout the planning, design, development, and delivery phases of enterprise-level software solutions. Your profound technical proficiency, combined with a comprehensive understanding of the industry, will play a crucial role in guaranteeing the appropriateness, scalability, flexibility, and resilience of our software solutions.

Key Responsibilities Maintaining a productive working environment for development teams.

Translate igaming industry and provider / operator requirements into architectural solutions.

Collaborate with Solutions Architects and other Technical Leads; mediate technical debates, drive performance optimisations, and guide architectural decisions.

Design, develop and document the technical architecture of products, considering scalability, performance, security, and integration needs.

Provide technical guidance and leadership throughout the software development lifecycle.

Evaluate and recommend technology stacks, frameworks, and third-party tools to support development and deployment.

Promote best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns to deliver high-quality, maintainable, scalable software.

Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in igaming and software architecture.

Requirements Extensive experience in the B2B software industry within the igaming space.

At least 15 years of software development experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role focusing on C# and .NET, including modern .NET technologies (.NET Core, .NET 6, WebAPI).

Strong knowledge of event-driven and microservice architectures.

Expertise designing and deploying applications on Kubernetes.

Strong SQL experience including profiling and database design.

Experience with caching using Redis.

Experience with client / server or N-tier architectures.

Nice to Have Knowledge of operator and platform requirements, including regulatory and operational aspects.

Proficiency in leveraging open-source technologies to reduce costs and enhance capabilities.

Experience with automation tools and CI / CD pipelines; strong understanding of observability principles and tools.

Experience with testing frameworks such as NUnit or XUnit.

Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type Full-time

Job function Engineering and Information Technology

Industries : Gambling Facilities and Casinos

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