Staff Backend Engineer - Casino
Hard Rock DigitalLocation: Poland only, fully remote
Job Type: B2B, full time
Overview
Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We care about each customer's interaction, experience, behaviour, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always acting authentically.
Rooted in the kindred spirits of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known all over the world as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space.
What’s the position?
We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Casino Technology Team, responsible for continuous growth and support of our Casino and Sportsbook apps.
As a staff-level backend engineer, you will:
Contribute to the design and implementation of complex features
Work with other Staff Engineers, Principal Engineers and Architects across the entire Technical Team
Be a technical point of contact for various stakeholders such as Engineering Managers, Technical VPs and Product Managers
Be technically talented, able to contribute quality code, and be passionate about the technology
Perform Code Reviews and coach Developers on why certain technical approaches need to be taken
Be responsible for the quality, scope, and timeliness of all your deliverables
Because we operate with a startup mindset, we will be reliant on your technical skill, but also your passion and ownership over all aspects of your work.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for an engineer who is willing to tackle problems with innovative ideas and quality technical implementations. Staff Engineers need to design, and help developers build, systems that can process huge numbers of transactions and user interactions in a scalable manner while focusing on giving our customers the best experience possible.
The ideal candidate will have:
Min of 8+ years work experience
Strong communication skills in English (both written and verbal)
Experience working for a company with large volumes of traffic, where every technical decision needs to be able to carry the load of our customer base
A deep understanding of AWS Cloud technologies and how to create scalable multi-region applications
Experience with the following technologies:
Java and Spring / SpringBoot
RDBMS (ex, Postgresql, CockroachDB)
o Streaming technologies (Amazon Kinesis, Kafka)
o Message Queues (SQS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ)
Experience working within an agile development
Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)
Experience with Micro-Service and Service oriented architectures
Nice to have experience in the Casino industry or an equivalent regulated industry such as Banking