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Principal Backend Software Engineer (Customer)

St. Julian's, St. Julian's, Malta💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and evolve distributed systems handling millions of concurrent transactions for a sports and iGaming platform.

Role type

Principal Backend Software Engineer (Architecture & Leadership)

Builds

High-throughput distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native infrastructure for BetKing and SuperSportBet.

Domain

iGaming / Sports Betting / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed systems architecture, Cloud architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP), Microservices, Kafka/RabbitMQ streams, C#, DevOps practices, Incident management, Unit testing, Stakeholder communication

Preferred skills

iGaming domain experience, Modern distributed system patterns

Technologies

C#, .NET 8, .NET Core, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, SQL Server, MongoDB, CosmosDB, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), Azure Cloud, Grafana, Kibana, Application Insights

Responsibilities

Architect distributed systems for high throughput; Provide technical leadership and mentor teams; Optimize system performance and cost efficiency; Drive reliability through monitoring and incident management; Collaborate with product leaders on technical strategy; Lead code reviews and ensure engineering quality; Participate in on-call rotations for critical systems.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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