Sr. Backend Engineer (FAM)

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain backend services, APIs, and system components for the FunaloMAX platform.
• Support platform enhancements, new feature development, technical improvements, system maintenance, 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 practical implementation solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, implement fixes, and support timely incident resolution.
• Improve backend system performance, reliability, scalability, monitoring, logging, and error handling.
• 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 engineering standards, 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-release monitoring.
• Mentor junior or mid-level engineers when required and contribute to backend engineering best 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, and service-to-service integrations.
• Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle.
• Experience with backend troubleshooting, production support, log analysis, performance tuning, 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 software development lifecycle practices.
• Ability to work with existing systems, understand legacy or inherited code, and improve maintainability without unnecessary disruption.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience supporting online gaming, casino systems, gaming platforms, fintech, payment systems, 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, and performance optimization.
• Understanding of secure coding, data privacy, access control, audit logging, regulatory requirements, and compliance-driven environments.
• Experience working on platform migration, platform stabilization, technical debt reduction, or backend modernization initiatives.