# Staff Backend Engineer - Content Distribution Engineering at LeoVegas Group

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- **Company:** LeoVegas Group (https://jobs.trythestack.co/companies/leovegas-group)
- **Location:** Spain
- **Work arrangement:** On-site
- **Employment type:** Full-time
- **Experience level:** 10+ years
- **Visa sponsorship:** Offered, according to the listing
- **Key skills:** Java, Spring Boot, Event-Driven Architectures, Microservices, Docker, Kafka, RESTful APIs, Observability, Resilience patterns, Relational databases, NoSQL, Caching, Agile, System design, Scalability, Performance tuning
- **Posted by employer:** 2026-04-20
- **Added to The Stack:** 2026-04-20
- **Status:** May no longer be active (posted more than 60 days ago)
- **Apply:** https://jobs.jobvite.com/leovegas/job/oAw0zfwp (the employer's own application page)
- **Human page:** https://jobs.trythestack.co/jobs/staff-backend-engineer-content-distribution-engineering-leovegas-group

## About the role

Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and ship high‑performance microservices for a real-time sportsbook platform from idea to production.
- Build, maintain, test and deploy services within a containerized, event-driven microservice ecosystem (Kafka, Docker, Spring Boot).
- Own delivery plans, drive platform initiatives, and prioritise technical debt reduction for long-term reliability and scalability.
- Implement observability, resilience patterns (retries, circuit breakers, graceful degradation) and production monitoring/alerts.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, QA and other engineers in an agile, cross-functional environment.
- Ensure solutions meet scale, availability, performance and security requirements for high-volume transactional systems.

Requirements:
- 8+ years software development experience with Java and Spring Boot in production environments.
- Strong experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka and microservice design patterns.
- Proven skills in containerisation (Docker), RESTful API design, and building scalable, resilient services.
- Hands-on experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces), alerting and production tuning.
- Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases, caching strategies and performance optimisation.
- Excellent communication skills and comfort representing technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
- Nice to have: experience with Reactive programming (RxJava, Vert.x) and distributed systems optimisations.

## Responsibilities

You will design, implement, and maintain scalable microservices within a high-volume, real-time sports betting environment. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive delivery plans, reduce technical debt, and ensure platform reliability.

## Requirements

The role requires over 8 years of experience in software development with a strong focus on Java, Spring Boot, and event-driven architectures. Candidates must have hands-on experience with microservices, containerization, and building highly scalable, resilient systems.

## FAQ

- **Is this Staff Backend Engineer - Content Distribution Engineering role still open?** It was posted on 2026-04-20. Listings more than 30 days old may no longer be active, so check LeoVegas Group's site before applying.
- **Does LeoVegas Group offer visa sponsorship?** This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on LeoVegas Group's site.
- **Where is this role located?** The listing gives the location as Spain. It is marked on-site.
- **What skills does this role ask for?** The listing names: Java, Spring Boot, Event-Driven Architectures, Microservices, Docker, Kafka, RESTful APIs, Observability, Resilience patterns, Relational databases, NoSQL, Caching, Agile, System design, Scalability, Performance tuning.

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