Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
We are on a mission to pioneer the world’s next era of play. As we grow across Europe and Latin America, we’re building The Playstack - the technology powering the next generation of sports, gaming, and fan experiences. Join us, and help make it the most widely used platform in the world! From operations, to marketing, to product, we are looking for talented people who will shape how millions of customers play, watch, and connect every day.
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It's an exciting time to join us. We are expanding into new markets, building new technologies, and steadily progressing toward our ambition of exciting the world. As the business continues to grow, so does the scale and impact of our initiatives. To support this growth, we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who can play a key role in delivering high-quality integrations, shaping engineering standards, and helping us accelerate the onboarding of new providers. As we continue to scale rapidly, this role will be instrumental in ensuring that our systems remain reliable, efficient, and capable of supporting our evolving platform.
Our teams operate as product-focused squads with strong ownership and accountability. We encourage open and candid feedback while focusing on delivering measurable outcomes. Engineers are empowered to build, run, and continuously improve the technology that powers Super's customer experience, ensuring that our products remain scalable, resilient, and innovative as we grow.
What the role involves
Collaborate closely with geographically distributed engineering teams to design and implement scalable and robust software solutions
Enhance the existing platform to increase the amount of business functionality driven by end-user configuration
Enhance system automation across scale, resiliency, and deployment
Maintain, enhance, and create common platform components and libraries (AWS, Erlang, Go, Kafka)
Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the wider organisation to understand and drive requirements and improvements across the platform
Build on our cloud-native platform, enabling greater use of AWS technology to accelerate delivery, scale, and resiliency
Build on our observability tooling and infrastructure to better understand the capabilities of our systems
Lead initiatives and tasks, driving them to completion and championing continuous improvement to enhance team productivity and efficiency
Grow the engineering community by building on existing processes and practices
What we are looking for
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
Experience working with distributed systems
Experience building and improving upon observability
A talent for clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing, and continuous deployment
A passion for working in the cloud and automation
A passion for creating user-centric, data-driven solutions
A willingness to learn new technologies
Nice to have
Experience with AWS (CloudFormation, MSK, S3, Cognito, etc.)
Knowledge of Kafka
An interest in functional programming
Front-end development experience in React
What we offer
Medical / Health Insurance
Open Annual Leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Training & Learning Development
Additional benefits vary by country and will be shared during the hiring process.
About Super
We are a global technology group, dedicated to building the future of entertainment and fan-centric experiences. With commercial markets in Brazil, Belgium, Poland, Romania, Greece and Serbia, and a network of offices across Spain, Croatia, Malta, Gibraltar, the Netherlands and the UK, we are a truly international organization. Our purpose at Super has evolved from sports and betting into creating the platform that stretches into the wider world of technology-driven entertainment. With a growing and diverse team of more than 5,000 people, we create immersive, responsible, and personalised experiences for millions of customers worldwide.
Shaping the Future of Play
Everything we do at Super is rooted in doing what is right: for customers, for each other, and for our long-term vision. Our Culture Manifesto is our North Star. It captures our purpose, mission, and the six core beliefs that shape how we think, make decisions, and act every day. Want to explore our culture in more detail? Visit our careers page: super.xyz/careers
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).
At Super, we operate as a high-performing team. We hire and grow talent based on ability and potential, regardless of background and identity because we know diverse perspectives, drive better performance.
