Senior Backend Software Engineer - Core

At Easygo, our Core team is at the heart of our operations, creating the robust, high-performance backend software that underpins both our global casino games and sportsbook offerings. The exciting thing about the Core team is that it impacts every single Stake customer and is felt directly by every engineer across all feature development squads on the Stake platform. As a dedicated developer experience team, we tackle complex technical challenges with innovation and precision, ensuring the foundational systems are robust, scalable, and empower all product development teams.

If you're passionate about growth, innovation, and working with the best, we'd love to have you on our team!

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and design scalable, high-performance software solutions in alignment with project requirements and company standards.
• Define and drive technical vision, strategy, and architecture aligning with business objectives.
• Handle data driven events and ensure robust event handling at scale.
• Optimize existing systems for performance, scalability, and reliability, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
• Actively engage in hands-on coding and development, ensuring code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership, guiding and mentoring junior engineers in the team.
  
  

Qualifications And Skills

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development.
• Experience with Node.js, Docker, Cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and related technologies.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration platforms.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong understanding of code architecture, design principles and documentation practices.
• Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, and guiding teams.
• Strong communication skills for effective collaboration with teams and stakeholders.
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership, come with an attitude of getting stuff done.
  
  

Some Of The Perks Of Joining Us

• Champion Engineering Excellence to influence cultural change across the organisation.
• Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent in Australia, using a vast cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, NATS, K8's, ArgoCD, Terraform, Typescript, GraphQL, Nodejs.
• Exposure to building global, large-scale volume products which operate at thousands per second frequency.
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform
• EAP access for you and your family
• Be rewarded with lucrative annual bonuses
• Give back with a paid volunteer day
• Fuel your day with daily breakfast and open pantries brimming with unlimited snacks and refreshments, all on the house
• Break up the week with on site remedial massage Wednesdays
• In house full-time barista’s providing you your daily coffee needs
• Weekly team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays
• Enjoy a bustling office with the option for up to 2 days work from home per week
• Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis and all your favourite gaming consoles
  
  

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.