Staff Software Engineer

WE ARE BETCLIC 🎯

Betclic, European leader in sports betting, is much more than just an online gaming site! Also offering Poker, Horse Racing, and Casino games across various countries and continents, it is an inspiring and forward-thinking company: every day brings new challenges in a modern and dynamic environment. As an influential player in the tech industry, with strong and sustained growth over the years, we believe in innovation through diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone to reach their full potential. With our multicultural team, we provide an optimal, safe and responsible gaming experience, powered by cutting-edge technology.

WHY JOIN US? 🚀

At Betclic, success comes from passionate and committed teams. Here’s why you’ll love working with us:

💡An international and creative environment where every project is an opportunity to innovate

📈Hypergrowth that brings new challenges and development opportunities every day

🏡A healthy work-life balance: flexible remote work and workplace well-being are essential pillars for us.

🌟A unique and friendly atmosphere, with 1,300 employees across 5 countries and our headquarters in BordeauxAre you passionate about sports and tech? Join us and help shape the future of online gaming!

ENTER THE GAME 🎮

As a Staff Software Engineer, and as part of the Offer Core Tribe in the Sporstbook universe, you will be responsible for building the best possible offer for our players, by driving impactful changes, giving technical quality guidance to the squads and solving the most complex problems throughout the codebase.

At Betclic, technological performance is at the heart of everything we do:

- In-house developed systems for full control over the offer value chain: real-time offer creation, ingestion, processing and serving, capable of handling massive traffic spikes.
- In-house developed Risk detection and management platform operated by our internal Risk Trading team: fast, scalable, observable, at the heart of the critical path of the bet placement process.
- Tech teams organized into autonomous squads and tribes, each responsible for a specific functional and technical domain, enabling end-to-end project ownership: development, load testing, delivery, and production monitoring (monitoring, alerting).

By joining our teams, you will become part of a Tribe that is at the core of our Sportsbook universe, with high challenges in terms of performance and scalability while still providing the best in class offer to our customers.

YOUR ROLE WITHIN BETCLIC 🔥

The Staff Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for ensuring alignment and consistency across all squads within the Tribe. Reporting directly to the Tribe’s Head of Engineering, they play a key role in delivering technical solutions that are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with the Tribe’s long-term engineering strategy.

This role is focused on solving cross-cutting technical challenges, fostering collaboration across teams, and enabling the delivery of high-quality, effective software at scale.

Staff Engineers are expected to proactively identify and lead high-impact technical initiatives, while working closely with product teams and squads to transform complex, high-value ideas into robust and reliable solutions.

In this role, your main missions will be:

- Partner with Tribe leadership to align technical direction with strategic priorities and deliver business value.
- Lead architecture reviews, building with the team simple solution to complex problems.
- Lead cross-team technical and product initiatives, providing technical guidance to the product discovery, helping align solutions and streamline communication during the delivery.
- Mentor and support engineers, helping them solve complex problems, improve technical skills, and grow professionally.
- Identify high-impact technical or product challenges and proactively design and drive scalable solutions.
- Monitor platform health and costs, to ensure that we provide 24/7 the best experience to our customer in a cost efficient manner.

Technical environment:

- C# / .NET 10, Rust, Python
- Cloud-first: AWS / Terraform as Infrastructure as Code
- Databases: MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, AWS Aurora
- Messaging: Kafka, SNS/SQS
- APIs: gRPC & REST
- AI Agents running on LangChain
- Datadog: Logs, APM, Alerting, etc.
- Low latency / High availability / High data throughput

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR? 🔍

We are looking for passionate and curious professionals who bring kindness and a touch of enthusiasm!

This job is made for you if:

- You pursue engineering excellence with a pragmatic, critical mindset, and you can pass down this philosophy to your Tribe's engineers
- Proven ability to influence beyond teams boundaries, communicating with a diverse audience of stakeholders.
- You have a proven track record in building and leading highly scalable & highly performant complex distributed systems.
- Production reliability, performance optimization and security concerns are integral parts of your development approach.
- Expertise of the C#/.Net ecosystem is highly appreciated, if not, expertise in a similar language like Java/Kotlin/Go can be discussed.
- You are interested in AI solutions, especially in the GenAI area.
- Fluency in english.

We have big ambitions, and we’re counting on your motivation, your ideas, and your drive to keep growing to help us reach our goals.

We see Staff Engineers as equally strong in communication, critical thinking, and system design as they are in writing high-quality code.

WHAT ARE THE RECRUITMENT STEPS?📝

If your application is selected, Maxime will contact you within a week for a 30-minute HR pre screening. You will then meet one of Betclic’s Engineering Director. Next, you’ll be asked to complete a technical test with one of our .NET experts followed by a system design test. We’ll also invite you to take the AssessFirst test (personality, motivation, and reasoning). Finally, you’ll have a final HR interview, where we’ll review and discuss your AssessFirst results together.

To ensure the best possible candidate experience, Betclic’s recruitment process takes an average of 4 to 6 weeks.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT? 🎁

✅ 25 days of paid leave and 10 RTT days

🍽️ A Ticket Restaurant® card credited with €11 per day (€6 per day funded by Betclic)

🩺 100% health insurance coverage for you and your children

🚆 50% reimbursement of public transport costs or an annual sustainable mobility allowance (€230 for commuting with sustainable transport)

🏡 Hybrid work model

📚 Access to a vast training catalog, with opportunities for professional development every year

🏢 Extraordinary office spaces with a rooftop where you can enjoy sunny breaks with a view of the Cité du Vin

🎉 Internal events to liven up your daily life

🏋️ On-site sports classes and organized tournaments (Pilates, circuit training, boxing, yoga, futsal, padel, tennis…)

Permanent contract, available immediately in Bordeaux, remote work possible from another city (on-site presence required 4 days a month)

📍 Betclic Group – 117 Quai de Bacalan, 33300 BORDEAUX