Backend Engineer - Sports Betting (Hybrid: 50% Remote)

Gaming1; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive salary

Remote work up to 50%

International and collaborative team

Job summary

Gaming1 is hiring a Backend Engineer for its Sports Betting area. You’ll design, build and evolve backend solutions powering customer experiences in a reliable and compliant way, especially during live sporting events.

You’ll work in small autonomous teams, collaborating with Product Managers and Frontend Engineers, and own end‑to‑end solutions from design through production and monitoring. The role emphasizes autonomy within a product‑driven culture.

Qualifications

• 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, including event‑driven architectures

Responsibilities

• Own solutions across their lifecycle — from design and implementation to release, monitoring, and iterative improvement.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Frontend Engineers, and other stakeholders.
• Apply strong backend craftsmanship while keeping product impact, reliability, and compliance front of mind.
• Continuously improve systems, practices, tooling, and ways of working.
• Autonomy, scope, and influence are driven by your career ladder level.

Skills

Backend experience

Backend fundamentals

End-to-end ownership

Product-minded

Team collaboration

SQL & relational databases

Tools

C#/.NET

Java

Kotlin

Go

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Kafka

NServiceBus

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Octopus Deploy

Datadog

Job description

Gaming1 is hiring a Backend Engineer for its Sports Betting area. You’ll design, build and evolve backend solutions powering customer experiences in a reliable and compliant way, especially during live sporting events.

You’ll work in small autonomous teams, collaborating with Product Managers and Frontend Engineers, and own end‑to‑end solutions from design through production and monitoring. The role emphasizes autonomy within a product‑driven culture.