Principal Backend Engineer (Platform Tribe)

Department: Platform Tribe

Location: European Union

Employment Type: FullTime

Founded in 2012, Playson is a leading iGaming supplier recognized worldwide. We provide our customers with a high-end micro-service-based platform as a service that aims to process billions of financial transactions per day. We provide a cross-regional setup and are chasing latency reduction down to zero. We highly invest in delivering the best game experience and smooth connection regardless of the internet coverage and bandwidth of the game clients.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to join our Platform Tribe to drive the development of our cutting-edge solution, where milliseconds matter. Our problem statement is not straightforward, as we aim to achieve high-end results in all important technical aspects of our business:

• best availability,

• lowest possible latency in all transaction processing operations and in every micro-service,

• the most efficient resource usage.

If you’re a product-passionate person, your mind is keen to solve deep tech engineering problems, and you have a fast "PoC first" approach with a deep sense of ownership, we would love to hear from you.

Why Join Us?

• Be a key player in a major tech transformation.

• Work on projects that impact millions globally.

• Enjoy a supportive, flexible work environment.

• Grow your skills with continuous professional development opportunities.

To succeed in the role, you will have:

• Solid experience with Node.js/TypeScript is ideal, but we also welcome experts in other OOP languages such as Java, Python, C++, C#, or Go.

• Strong understanding of Async approaches

• Experience with Messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ

• Experience in distributed systems

• Experience with RDBMs (MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.), CDBMs (Redshift, ClickHouse etc.), NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB, etc)

• Experience in writing e2e & unit tests

• Experience with development production-ready solutions

Would be beneficial:

• Understanding of enterprise development patterns

• Experienced with large-scale microservices architecture

• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, etc.)

• Experience with Kubernetes

• Active performance observation

• Gambling domain experience

• Understanding of application security and industry standards, its best practices

• A degree in Computer Science or related field

What will you be doing?

• Become part of a full-stack team of the product, which is positioned as an independent part of the platform

• Develop brand new features with a distributed team and be proactive in terms of proposing new ideas

• Develop a scalable high load system, with financial resultsʼ responsibility

• Participating in on-call rotations within the squad to help ensure the reliability and availability of our systems.

• Code and Architectural review

• Proactive position in solution development, processes improvements

• Handle complex business problems that might arise during solution development and provide field support with creative and rapid solutions

What you get in return:

• Competitive Salary and annual performance/salary reviews

• Realistic and transparent Bonus system (15-20%), paid quarterly

• Unlimited paid vacation leave & paid sick leave

• Flexible work schedule to accommodate your needs

• 100% Remote

• Medical Insurance for you +1.

• Financial Support for Life Events & Extended Parental Leave

• Paid professional development courses and trainings

• B2B contracts

The recruitment process includes the next steps:

1. HR Interview (30-45 min)

2. Meeting with a Product Owner (60 min)

3. Technical interview with live coding (90 min)

4. Final Interview with CTO & Software Architect (60 min)