Sr. Backend Engineer (FAM)

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain backend services, APIs, and system componentsfor the FunaloMAX platform.
• Support platform enhancements, new feature development, technical improvements, systemmaintenance, and business-requested changes.
• Maintain and improve backend integrations with internal systems, gaming-related services,payment providers, reporting tools, third-party vendors, and operational platforms.
• Analyze business and technical requirements, identify backend impact, and propose practicalimplementation solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, implement fixes, and supporttimely incident resolution.
• Improve backend system performance, reliability, scalability, monitoring, logging, and errorhandling.
• Review and enhance existing backend code, database queries, API flows, and service logic to improve maintainability and stability.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, QA engineers, DevOps, product owners, business users,vendors, security, and compliance stakeholders.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure backend implementation follows engineeringstandards, security requirements, and platform best practices.
• Prepare and maintain technical documentation, API specifications, integration notes,troubleshooting guides, and support handover materials.
• Support release activities, deployment validation, production verification, and post-releasemonitoring.
• Mentor junior or mid-level engineers when required and contribute to backend engineeringbest practices.

Requirements

• Solid professional experience in backend software development.
• Hands-on experience with backend programming languages such as Java, Node.js, Go, C#,Python, or other relevant backend technologies.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining RESTful APIs, backend services, andservice-to-service integrations.
• Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLServer, or Oracle.
• Experience with backend troubleshooting, production support, log analysis, performancetuning, and issue resolution.
• Good understanding of API authentication, authorization, data validation, transaction handling,error handling, and backend security practices.
• Familiarity with version control, CI/CD processes, deployment workflows, and softwaredevelopment lifecycle practices.
• Ability to work with existing systems, understand legacy or inherited code, and improvemaintainability without unnecessary disruption.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technicalstakeholders.
• Experience supporting online gaming, casino systems, gaming platforms, fintech, paymentsystems, e-commerce, or other high-transaction digital platforms.
• Experience handling third-party vendor integrations and external platform dependencies.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, microservices, message queues, caching,or distributed system design.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, incident response, production support, andperformance optimization.
• Understanding of secure coding, data privacy, access control, audit logging, regulatoryrequirements, and compliance-driven environments.
• Experience working on platform migration, platform stabilization, technical debt reduction, orbackend modernization initiatives.