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.