Senior Backend Engineer - Scalable iGaming Platform

kwiff; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Well-being Allowance

Life Insurance

Pension

Competitive Bonus Scheme

Job summary

kwiff is seeking an experienced backend engineer to join our team. You will build in Node.js and TypeScript, design scalable microservice architectures and ensure fault-tolerant systems with a strong focus on code quality and testing.

Shaping a scalable architecture for our sportsbook platform, you will discuss feasibility, ROI, and trade-offs with product as we move from MVP to fully-fledged features. You will own your code, build it, test it, ship it, and monitor it in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in Node.js/TypeScript backend development.
• Familiarity with microservices and serverless architectures.
• Strong knowledge of relational database design (MySQL/Postgres) and caching layers.

Responsibilities

• Engineer technical solutions and share them via design sessions & code reviews.
• Shape scalable architecture of our sportsbook platform.
• Discuss feasibility, ROI, and trade-offs with product to deliver MVP to full features.
• Own, build, test, and ship your code.
• Monitor and improve system performance and reliability.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Integration Testing

DB Design

Redis

AWS

GitHub

AI awareness

Data structures

System architecture

Communication

Proactive

Quality focus

Tools

GitHub

Datadog

Job description

kwiff is seeking an experienced backend engineer to join our team. You will build in Node.js and TypeScript, design scalable microservice architectures and ensure fault-tolerant systems with a strong focus on code quality and testing.

Shaping a scalable architecture for our sportsbook platform, you will discuss feasibility, ROI, and trade-offs with product as we move from MVP to fully-fledged features. You will own your code, build it, test it, ship it, and monitor it in a fast-paced environment.