Principal Backend Engineer — AI-Driven, Scalable Cloud

Hard Rock Digital; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay & benefits

Flexible vacation

WFH or office hours

Startup culture

Global brand

Job summary

Hard Rock Digital is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to shape the backend architecture for our Casino and Sportsbook apps. You will own technical direction across multiple teams and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, high-quality systems.

Responsibilities include designing complex features, reviewing code, and championing AI-assisted development practices to boost velocity and quality across the engineering organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal English communication.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and architecture for cross-team systems.
• Contribute to design and implementation of complex features.
• Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers; perform code reviews.

Skills

Java & Spring

AWS Cloud

Distributed systems

AI-assisted tooling

English communication

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

SQS

PostgreSQL

Job description

Hard Rock Digital is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to shape the backend architecture for our Casino and Sportsbook apps. You will own technical direction across multiple teams and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, high-quality systems.

Responsibilities include designing complex features, reviewing code, and championing AI-assisted development practices to boost velocity and quality across the engineering organization.