BACKEND ENGINEER - SPORTS BETTING (GHENT - BELGIUM)

GAMING1; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Internal mobility

Learning and career development

Competitive salary and benefits

Job summary

Gaming1 is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and evolve backend solutions powering sports betting and other gaming products. You will work in autonomous teams within a high-traffic, regulated environment, owning solutions end-to-end from design to production.

The role emphasizes strong backend craftsmanship, reliability, and collaboration with product, frontend, and operations teams to support live events and compliant gaming platforms. Hybrid work is available.

Qualifications

• Backend Engineer with experience in product-oriented environments.
• Strong API design, data modeling, testing, performance, resilience and operability.
• Experience building backend services with statically-typed languages (C#/Java/Kotlin/Go) and event-driven architectures.
• Own solutions end-to-end from design to production and continuous improvement.
• Product-minded, collaborative and comfortable in small autonomous teams.
• Experience with relational databases, SQL, and ORMs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve backend solutions powering customer experiences and business capabilities.
• Own solutions across their lifecycle from design to release and monitoring.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Frontend Engineers, and stakeholders.
• Ensure reliability and compliance, especially during high-traffic events.
• Continuously improve systems, tooling, and ways of working.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Data modeling

Testing

Production deployment

Team collaboration

Tools

C#/.NET

Java

Kotlin

Go

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

With 30 years of history, today Gaming1 is one of the international leaders in both land-based and online games of chance (casino games, sports betting and poker). Its evolution at the heart of innovation is accompanied by a diversification and specialization of positions, with the creation of new cutting-edge jobs.

As part of its sustained growth, Gaming1 is looking for a Backend Engineer to join its Sports Betting Area.

A Backend Engineer at Gaming1 maximizes customer and business value through high-quality, user-centric product experiences.

Engineers operate within small, autonomous product engineering teams in a high-traffic, regulated environment, where decisions directly impact platform stability, customer trust, compliance, and time-to-market. This role sits within our Sports Betting team, where traffic surges around live sporting events and where compliance means jurisdiction-specific rules such as licensing and responsible-gambling requirements.

Because teams are intentionally small and product-oriented, Engineers are expected to be wide in their skillset, flexible in scope, and comfortable collaborating across disciplines. Backend work is not always isolated from product, operational, or cross-team concerns — success comes from end-to-end ownership and shared accountability, not role silos.

This role is part of a broader Product Engineering culture focused on autonomy, short feedback loops, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

YOUR ROLE

As a Backend Engineer, your mission is to design, build, and evolve backend solutions that power customer experiences and business capabilities in a reliable and sustainable way.

You do this by:

• Owning solutions across their lifecycle — from design and implementation to release, monitoring, and iterative improvement.
• Collaborating closely with Product Managers, Frontend Engineers, and other stakeholders.
• Applying strong backend craftsmanship while keeping product impact, reliability, and compliance front of mind — including through the traffic peaks that come with live sporting events.
• Continuously improving systems, practices, tooling, and ways of working.
• Your autonomy, scope, and influence are driven by your career ladder level, not by the job title alone.

YOUR PROFILE

What you bring

• Experience as a Backend Engineer in product-oriented environments, ideally at scale and/or in regulated contexts
• Strong backend fundamentals: API design, data modeling, testing, performance, resilience and operability
• Experience building backend services with a statically-typed language and framework (e.g. C#/.NET, Java, Kotlin, Go), including event-driven architectures
• Ability to own solutions end-to-end, from design to production and continuous improvement
• Product-minded, collaborative, and comfortable working in small, autonomous, cross-functional teams
• Strong sense of ownership, pragmatism, and continuous learning mindset
• Experience working with relational databases (RDBMS), SQL, and ORMs

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience specifically with .NET (C#) and messaging brokers and frameworks such as RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, or NServiceBus
• Specific experience with PostgreSQL
• Experience containerizing services and deploying them through CI/CD pipelines to Kubernetes (we use GitLab CI/CD and Octopus Deploy)
• Experience with real-time or high-concurrency systems (e.g. live odds, in-play betting, event-driven traffic spikes), or an interest in the sports betting / iGaming domain
• Comfortable owning the observability of what you build — instrumenting, alerting, and monitoring your services in production (we use Datadog)
  

WHAT WE OFFER

As well as enjoying a unique experience – centered around our values of Pleasure, Team Spirit, Performance, Boldness and Integrity– alongside 1.600 colleagues worldwide, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to the international development of a fast-growing family company.

Joining Gaming1 means becoming part of a human and entrepreneurial adventure where people are empowered to make an impact, grow and succeed together.

We offer:

• the opportunity to work on ambitious international projects within a solid and growing group
• a collaborative and high-performing work environment
• leadership based on trust, autonomy, talent and shared values
• continuous learning and career development opportunities through training and internal mobility
• a competitive salary and benefits package aligned with the local market
• a hybrid working model, with the possibility to work remotely up to 50% of your working time
• an international and collaborative environment where people come first