Senior Back End Developer

The Mill Adventure is a scale-up focused on building innovative products to transform the iGaming industry. Founded in 2019, we combine technology-driven operations with a fast-moving team of specialists.

Today, we offer a comprehensive gaming platform designed for rapid deployment and success. Our team of over 100 technology and iGaming experts is driven by a passion for invention, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

We value our team and provide flexible working conditions, accommodating remote, office-based, or mixed models. Our strength lies in embracing cultural diversity and modern technology.

Our technology stack includes an event-driven architecture of domain-specific services organized in a monorepo with automated CI/CD pipelines, and a serverless approach. We prioritize agility, autonomy, and minimal overhead, fostering close collaboration with minimal meetings.

As our gaming platform is complex, you’ll engage in diverse tasks such as integrating with payment or game providers, expanding into new markets, introducing new features, and optimizing existing ones. Some of our unique projects include:

• SmartLobbies (AI-powered, personalized game recommendations),
• Tournaments (a flexible system supporting real-time competitions between players),
• Automated withdrawals (rule-based component for automating critical processes),
• Betpool (innovative social gaming solution).

The role of a Senior Back End Developer involves:

• Developing and maintaining our gaming platform, including customer-facing features, compliance and reporting systems, and core platform components.
• Reviewing and debugging code with a focus on quality, data integrity, edge cases, and unintended effects across the platform.
• Participating in software design and architecture discussions.
• Taking ownership of changes throughout the software development lifecycle, clarifying requirements, assessing impact, and verifying behavior post-release.
• Collaborating with internal teams, vendors, and partners.
• Using AI-assisted development tools, scripting, and automation to enhance development and engineering workflows, while critically evaluating outputs and ensuring quality.
• Designing and performing tests to verify business rules, data accuracy, and failure scenarios, working closely with QA to ensure adequate coverage.

Requirements

Ideal candidates will have:

• Knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, and the Node.js ecosystem.
• Experience with AWS solutions such as DynamoDB, Kinesis, Lambda, QuickSight, and S3.
• Experience designing and maintaining automated unit and integration tests.
• An analytical and methodical approach to problem-solving, with a strong focus on investigating unclear requirements and underlying causes.
• The ability to work independently.
• Self-management and communication skills.
• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on back-end development.
• Experience with event-driven architectures.
• Experience developing highly available, fault-tolerant systems and maintaining data consistency in event-driven architectures.
• Practical experience using AI tools in software development, with the ability to critically review generated code and validate its behavior; an interest in extending AI and automation into engineering workflows.
• Experience with compliance, regulatory reporting, or systems where data accuracy, traceability, and auditability are essential would be advantageous.

General expectations include:

• High communication standards, including participation in team chats, providing help when needed, and seeking help when necessary.
• Pro-activeness, such as planning your own work, seeking new tasks, and participating in activities beyond primary tasks.
• Professionalism, including delivering high-quality work and suggesting improvements.
• Kindness and a positive attitude towards colleagues.

Benefits

• A lean, focused company with a flexible working environment.
• The opportunity to work with and learn from a highly skilled, talented team.
• A great company culture emphasizing accountability, transparency, and competency.
• Being part of a small, tight-knit, caring community.
• Work equipment of your choice.
• Private health insurance.
• A learning budget.
• A fitness benefit.
• Parking/transport or co-working allowance.
• Company-wide and team-based get-togethers.