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Principal Backend Engineer - Casino
Hard Rock Digital
WorldwideremotePosted today
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Key highlights
- 10+ years work experience
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Required experience with AI-assisted development tools
- Flexible work from home or office hours
Role overview
Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world, leveraging the global brand of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida to build products for millions of consumers. We are looking for a Principal Backend Engineer to join our rapidly growing Casino Technology Team, responsible for continuous growth and support of our Casino and Sportsbook apps. This Engineer will set technical direction across multiple teams and have significant ownership over the shape of our backend architecture.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction and architecture for complex, cross-team systems
- Contribute to the design and implementation of complex features
- Work with other Principal Engineers and Architects across the entire Technical Team, and act as a mentor to Staff and Senior Engineers
- Be a trusted technical advisor for various stakeholders such as Engineering Managers, Technical VPs and Product Managers, influencing roadmap and architectural decisions
- Be technically talented, able to contribute quality code, and be passionate about the technology - including how AI-assisted tools are changing the way we design, build, and ship software
- Perform Code Reviews and coach Developers, Senior Engineers and Staff Engineers on why certain technical approaches need to be taken
- Be responsible for the quality, scope, and timeliness of all your deliverables
- Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development practices and tools across the team, helping raise the bar on engineering velocity and code quality
- Leverage modern tools - AI included - to multiply your impact and that of the teams around you
Requirements
- Min of 10+ years work experience
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) in your day-to-day workflow, and a genuine enthusiasm for how AI is changing software engineering
- Strong communication skills in English (both written and verbal)
- Experience working for a company with large volumes of traffic, where every technical decision needs to be able to carry the load of our customer base
- A deep understanding of AWS Cloud technologies and how to create scalable multi-region applications
- Experience with Java and Spring / SpringBoot
- Experience with RDBMS (ex, Postgresql, CockroachDB)
- Experience with Streaming technologies (Amazon Kinesis, Kafka)
- Experience with Message Queues (SQS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ)
- Experience working within an agile development
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)
- Experience with Micro-Service and Service oriented architectures
Nice to have
- Experience in the Casino industry or an equivalent regulated industry such as Banking
- Experience championing the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices (e.g. AI code generation, AI-assisted code review, agentic coding tools) within an engineering organization
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Flexible vacation allowance
- Flexible work from home or office hours
- Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand
- Opportunity to build products enjoyed by millions as part of a passionate team
Additional details
- Because we operate with a startup mindset, we will be reliant on your technical skill, but also your passion and ownership over all aspects of your work
- Principal Engineers need to define and design, and help teams build, systems that can process huge numbers of transactions and user interactions in a scalable manner while focusing on giving our customers the best experience possible
- Our vision for our business and customers is built on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where regardless of background or beliefs you feel able to be authentic and bring all your talent into play
- We are an equal opportunities employer
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