Backend Engineer – Hybrid, Scalable Gaming Platform

LeoVegas Group; Málaga; Hybrid; EUR 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy (2 days from home)

Workation (4 weeks)

EUR 300 wellness contribution

Cobee benefits app

Health insurance (Alan)

Life insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Short Fridays

Snacks and drinks in offices

Team and office social events

Job summary

LeoVegas Group is hiring a Backend Engineer in Málaga, Spain. You will develop and maintain cloud-based, distributed microservices using Java/Spring, integrating gaming providers and exposing data via APIs.

The role emphasizes scalability, observability, and reliability in a fast-growing iGaming environment. You will work with a team of backend engineers and QA, collaborating with stakeholders to optimise performance and drive innovative projects like LeoJackpot.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend development with Java, Spring (Boot) and JPA/Hibernate.
• Hands-on experience building highly scalable RESTful microservices.
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL.
• Experience implementing resilience patterns (e.g. retries, circuit breakers, graceful degradation).
• Experience designing monitoring dashboards (metrics, logs, traces) and alerts to detect issues proactively.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining microservices using Java, Spring Boot and JPA
• Integrating new gaming providers into the platform via APIs
• Collaborating with frontend teams to expose game data via APIs
• Optimising the performance and scalability of backend systems
• Ensuring services are production-ready, observable and maintainable through monitoring and alerting
• Taking ownership, solving problems and collaborating across teams

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

JPA/Hibernate

RESTful microservices

MySQL

Resilience patterns

Monitoring dashboards

Tools

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Hazelcast

Docker

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

Consul

Datadog

Job description

LeoVegas Group is hiring a Backend Engineer in Málaga, Spain. You will develop and maintain cloud-based, distributed microservices using Java/Spring, integrating gaming providers and exposing data via APIs.

The role emphasizes scalability, observability, and reliability in a fast-growing iGaming environment. You will work with a team of backend engineers and QA, collaborating with stakeholders to optimise performance and drive innovative projects like LeoJackpot.