Senior Backend Engineer

Superbet; Madrid; Presencial; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading global technology company in Madrid is seeking an experienced engineer to design scalable and robust software solutions. You will collaborate with geographically distributed teams and enhance system automation, driving improvements across the platform. Ideal candidates will have over 7 years of experience in a large-scale production environment, expertise in cloud technologies, and a strong passion for user-centric solutions. The role offers full flexibility with occasional office meet-ups.

Formación

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in a large-scale production environment.
• Experience in engineering high-quality, scalable software.
• Willingness to learn new technologies.
• Experience building and improving observability.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborate with distributed engineering teams to design scalable software solutions.
• Enhance platform functionality driven by end-user configuration.
• Improve system automation for scale and resiliency.
• Maintain and enhance common platform components and libraries.
• Work with stakeholders to understand and drive requirements.
• Build on AWS technology to speed up delivery and resiliency.
• Lead initiatives and drive continuous improvements.

Conocimientos

Clean coding

Cloud technologies

Distributed systems

User-centric design

Data-driven solutions

Scalability

Automated testing

Continuous deployment

Herramientas

AWS

Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

JavaScript frameworks (Vue.js, React, Angular)

Descripción del empleo

It’s an exciting time to join us! We’re entering new markets, developing new technologies, and moving step by step toward our goal of exciting the world. As our business grows, the number of 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 across Europe and have recently started our expansion into Brazil, making 1,000+ location networks work across multiple geographies. If you ever wanted to see how software can handle 90 million bets per month, why not join us?

Our headquarters are in Madrid, but the role offers full flexibility with occasional meet‑ups with teams and leads in the office, as well as collaboration with our offices in London, Zagreb, and more.

We are looking for someone who has:

• A minimum of 7 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.
• 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, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Front‑end development experience in modern JavaScript frameworks (Vue.js, React, Angular, etc.).

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 libraries (AWS, Erlang, Go, 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 Cloud‑Native 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.
• Driving 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 play‑stack that will champion the future of play.

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).