Senior Backend Engineer

Superbet; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Opportunities for learning new technologies

Dynamic team environment

Descripción de la vacante

A leading sports technology company in Madrid is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. You will collaborate with diverse teams to build scalable software solutions and enhance platform capabilities. Ideal candidates have over 5 years in software engineering, experience with cloud technologies, and a passion for creating user-centric solutions. Join us to impact how we engage millions of users in exciting and innovative ways. Competitive compensation and a dynamic work environment await you.

Formación

• Minimum 5 years experience in large-scale production environment.
• Willingness to learn new technologies like Go, Python, Erlang.
• Experience in automated testing and continuous deployment.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborate with geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Enhance existing platform functionality through end-user configuration.
• Maintain and create common platform components.

Conocimientos

High-quality software engineering

Scalability in software development

Object-oriented or functional programming

Clean coding practices

Cloud and automation experience

Distributed systems knowledge

User-centric data driven solutions

Herramientas

AWS

Go

Python

Erlang

Kafka

Descripción del empleo

Overview

It’s an exciting time to join us! We’re entering new markets, developing new technologies, and moving step by step towards our goal of exciting the world. As our business grows, the number of exciting people initiatives grows with it, and we’re looking for a new colleague to partner with our team to bring these to life.

We are one of the largest sports betting operators in the region making 1000+ location networks work across multiple geographies. If you ever wanted to see how software can handle 22 million bets per month - why not join us?

You’ll have the opportunity to bring beautiful solutions to life through clean and maintainable code, contribute to feature development from day one, and work closely with a passionate and diverse team of engineers, product managers, and designers.

We follow a Tribes and Squads model, with multiple product teams currently hiring Senior Backend Engineers. Depending on your interests and experience, you could be building anything from Sports and Gaming features to player-focused experiences covering everything from registration, deposits, withdrawals all the way to player engagement, and retention. Every squad plays a key role in delivering seamless, secure, and engaging user experiences — and your work will directly impact how we stand out in a highly competitive market!

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years of hands on experience in a large scale production environment.
• Experience engineering high-quality, highly scalable software in any object-oriented or functional language
• A willingness to learn new technologies (we are working with Go, Python, Erlang, Elixir)
• A talent for clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing, and continuous deployment
• A passion for working in the cloud and automation
• Experience working with distributed systems
• Experience building and improving upon observability
• A passion for creating user-centric, data driven solutions

Bonus points for

• Experience in AWS (CloudFormation, MSK, S3, Cognito etc.)
• An interest in Functional Programming
• Knowledge of Kafka
• Front end development experience in React/Vue.js

What you\'ll be doing

• Collaborating closely with geographically distributed engineering teams to design and implement scalable and robust software solutions.
• Enhancing the existing platform to increase the amount of business functionality driven by end-user configuration
• Enhancing system automation (scale, resiliency, deployment)
• Maintaining, enhancing and creating common platform components and libs (AWS, Go, Python, Erlang, Kafka)
• Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders from the wider organization to understand and drive requirements and improvements across the platform
• Building on our CloudNative platform, enabling more use of AWS technology to aid in speeding up delivery, scale, and resiliency
• Building on our observability tooling and infrastructure to better understand the capabilities of our systems
• Growing the engineering community, building on the existing process and practices
• Leading initiatives and tasks and driving them to completion
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team productivity and efficiency.

About Us

We are a global technology company dedicated to building the future of entertainment and fan-centric experiences. With commercial markets in Brazil, Belgium, Poland, Romania, and Serbia, our company has evolved from a leading sports betting and gaming operator into a diversified product and tech organization, gathering more than 5,000 dedicated people across our teams.

Shaping the future of play

At Super, we are creating a unique entertainment ecosystem engaging millions of customers worldwide. Our product and technology teams in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Madrid (Spain), Zagreb (Croatia), London (UK), and Bucharest (Romania) are building the playstack that will champion the future of play.

Our ambitious growth strategy focuses on expanding across Europe and Latin America while delivering immersive customer experiences and creating lasting value for our customers, partners, and communities.

Global recognition and standards

The company’s long-term strategy is supported by world-class investors. In 2019, Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, made a strategic minority investment of €175 million. In 2025, we strengthened our financial position through a €1.3 billion refinancing agreement, reinforcing our partnership with Blackstone and enabling accelerated global expansion.

Super is committed to the highest standards of compliance, safety, and responsibility. As such, we are active members of the International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) and the European Gaming & Betting Association (EGBA).