Senior Software Engineer

We are partnering with a global sports media and sports betting technology company to appoint a Senior Java Backend Engineer for their engineering hub in Cape Town. This team builds and maintains high-performance gaming and sports platforms used by millions of customers worldwide.

Reporting into the engineering leadership team, this is a hands on role focused on designing and delivering scalable backend services that power real time betting, media, and sports products.

This opportunity is ideal for a senior level backend engineer who enjoys solving complex system challenges, working with high throughput distributed systems, and owning features from design through to production.

As a Senior Java Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and delivering reliable, scalable backend services within a modern engineering environment.

• Design and build scalable backend services using Java and the Spring ecosystem
• Own end to end feature delivery from architecture and development through deployment and optimisation
• Develop high throughput, low latency systems supporting real time sports betting and media platforms
• Write clean, well tested, production ready code and contribute to maintaining high engineering standards through code reviews and design discussions
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and fellow engineers to shape technical solutions
• Design and optimise relational data models and write efficient SQL queries
• Manage database schema changes and migrations while maintaining production stability
• Contribute to improvements in developer experience including tooling, pipelines, observability, and performance
• Work with event driven and message based systems using technologies such as Kafka and RabbitMQ
• Use modern development tools and AI assistants (such as Copilot) pragmatically to improve development efficiency
• Participate in Agile delivery processes including sprint planning, stand ups, and retrospectives

We are looking for a technically strong Senior Backend Engineer with deep experience in Java and modern backend architecture.

• Strong experience building enterprise grade Java applications
• Deep hands on experience with the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, Spring Security)
• Experience designing scalable, maintainable, and observable backend systems
• Strong experience with relational databases and SQL optimisation
• Experience working with message queues or event driven systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience using Git based workflows including pull requests, branching strategies, and code reviews
• Experience collaborating within Agile development teams
• Ability to mentor other engineers and contribute to raising engineering standards
• Strong problem solving mindset with the ability to evaluate trade offs in system design

• Experience in iGaming, sports betting, fintech, or other regulated high scale industries
• Experience with cloud platforms, particularly GCP
• Experience working with Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to frontend frameworks such as Vue.js or Angular
• Experience with performance tuning, distributed systems, or event driven architecture
• Experience improving developer tooling, observability, or platform engineering capabilities
• Databases: MySQL, MongoDB
• Frontend (exposure): Vue.js, Angular
• Testing & APIs: Cypress, Postman
• Version Control: GitHub
• IDE: IntelliJ Ultimate
• Containers & CI/CD: Docker and modern deployment pipelines

• Location: Cape Town, South Africa
• 21 days annual leave
• Discovery Medical Aid
• Discretionary company performance bonus
• Opportunity to work on globally scaled sports betting and gaming platforms
• Collaborative engineering culture focused on technical excellence and delivery

If you are a Senior Java Engineer looking to build high scale platforms within the sports and gaming technology space, we would love to hear from you.