Senior Software Engineer (iGaming) - Python, Backend
📍 Location: Remote-first, UK-based
💸 Salary: £90,000-110,000
📈 Heavily Funded: Series C-funded, fast-scaling consumer tech
⚙️ Technical Environment: Python, API Development, Distributed Systems, AWS
We're partnered with a fast-growing, heavily funded iGaming platform as they scale multiple engineering teams.
Their ambition is to disrupt a bloated, legacy-dominated industry through a genuinely superior user experience.
This is a business that owns its entire tech stack end-to-end. No white-label shortcuts. That means the engineering team has the freedom to build in a customer and product driven environment and to build it right.
This role sits within a team that drives their core revenue. This hire will be the technical anchor on the backend side of the squad. You'll own the APIs that power the customer-facing product, be involved from problem statement through to release, and play a direct role in shaping how the domain evolves as they migrate from a Python monolith into isolated, resilient services.
There's an exciting launch on the horizon in a brand new region.
The systems challenge is real: high-throughput event-driven architecture on AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, averaging 6+ backend releases per week with a target of 20+ — fast but safe is their culture. They're also experimenting with Rust for performance-critical workloads and are early-but-genuine adopters of AI tooling across the engineering org.
Small squads, high trust, high ownership. This isn't a place for engineers who want to be handed a ticket and told what to build.
Requirements
* Strong backend engineering experience, ideally in Python, though they'll flex for the right profile with a modern stack background
* Proven track record building and owning production-grade APIs with performance in mind
* Comfortable contributing to systems design and architectural decisions, not just implementation
* Product-curious: you care that your work reaches users and has an impact, not just that the code is clean
* Experience with distributed systems or event-driven architectures is a strong positive