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Backend Engineer (Platform)

Happening.com

Office

Brazil; Spain

Full Time

We are one of the largest sports betting operators in the region making 1000+ location networks work across multiple geographies. If you ever wanted to see how software can handle 22 million bets per month - why not join us?

You’ll have the opportunity to bring beautiful solutions to life through clean and maintainable code, contribute to feature development from day one, and work closely with a passionate and diverse team of engineers, product managers, and designers.

We are looking for a skilled Backend Engineer to join our dynamic Platform team. In this role, you'll drive innovation by developing engaging features across our platform. You'll contribute to a range of impactful projects that elevate user experiences. If you are enthusiastic about building robust, scalable backend services and thrive in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is for you!

We'Re Are Looking For Someone Who Has:

  • A minimum of 2 or 4 years of hands on experience in a large scale production environment.
  • Has experience engineering high-quality, highly scalable software and distributed systems in any object-oriented or Functional language
  • Willingness to learn new technologies (we are working with Golang)
  • 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:

  • Building apps with high-frequency, low-latency data changes
  • Navigating complex domains and business requirements

What You'Ll Be Doing:

  • Owning the entire product lifecycle, from proposal to release and maintenance
  • Collaborating closely with geographically distributed engineering teams to design and implement scalable and robust software solutions.
  • Enhancing system automation (scale, resiliency, deployment)
  • Maintaining, enhancing and creating common platform components and libs (AWS, Go, Kafka)
  • Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders from the wider organization to understand and drive requirements and improvements across the product
  • 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
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team productivity and efficiency.

    You Can Expect

    Well-Rounded Compensation Package

    We want you to be happy. One of the ways we can do that is to ensure that you get rewarded for your achievements and get a generous compensation package, short-term and long-term incentive plans, and sessional bonuses for your skills and what you bring to the table.

Backend Engineer (Platform)

Office

Brazil; Spain

Full Time

September 26, 2025

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Happening