Backend Engineer (Gaming)

Location: Málaga, Spain; hybrid work with 2 days per week from home

Company

hirify.global develops and operates products in the online gaming industry, with more than 2,000 employees across 19 offices.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain Java microservices using Spring Boot and JPA.
• Integrate new gaming providers through APIs and collaborate with frontend teams to expose game data.
• Optimize backend performance and scalability for approximately 1.3 billion gaming transactions per month.
• Implement production-ready, observable, and maintainable services with monitoring and alerting.
• Collaborate with regulatory reporting, game operations, frontend, and other teams while taking ownership of technical problems.

Requirements

• 3+ years of backend development experience with Java, Spring, Spring Boot, and JPA/Hibernate.
• Hands-on experience building highly scalable RESTful microservices.
• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL.
• Experience implementing resilience patterns, including retries, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation.
• Experience designing monitoring dashboards using metrics, logs, and traces, as well as alerts for proactive issue detection.
• English is the company working language; submit the CV in English.

Nice to have

• Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Hazelcast.
• Kotlin, Node.js, Akka, and GraphQL.
• Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, and Consul.
• Datadog and online gaming or gambling experience.
• AI-assisted development, ideally with Claude Code.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work policy with 2 days per week from home.
• Four weeks of workation, subject to terms and conditions.
• Annual EUR 300 wellness contribution, flexible compensation and discounts through Cobee, health insurance, and life insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program providing emotional, legal, and financial support.
• Short Fridays until 16:00, office refreshments, and team and office social events.
• Fast-paced, agile environment focused on continual learning, effective communication, innovation, and collaboration.