Golang / Go Job: Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer at Happening

🇳🇱 Netherlands › Amsterdam   (Posted Apr 27 2025)

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Job description
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; Spain
Engineering, Data
We are one of the largest sports betting operators in the region making 1000+ location networks work across multiple geographies. If you ever wanted to see how software can handle 22 million bets per month - why not join us?

We're are looking for someone who has:
A minimum of 5 years of hands on experience in a large scale production environment.
Has experience engineering high-quality, highly scalable software in any object-oriented or Functional language
A willingness to learn new technologies (we are working with Golang, Python, Erlang)
A talent for clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing, and continuous deployment
A passion for working in the cloud and automation
Experience working with distributed systems
Experience building and improving upon observability
A passion for creating user-centric, data driven solutions

Bonus points for:
Experience in AWS (Cloudformation, MSK, S3, Cognito etc..)
An interest in Functional Programming
Knowledge of Kafka
Front end development experience in React/Vue.js

What you'll be doing:
Collaborating closely with geographically distributed engineering teams to design and implement scalable and robust software solutions.
Enhancing the existing platform to increase the amount of business functionality driven by end-user configuration
Enhancing system automation (scale, resiliency, deployment)
Maintaining, enhancing and creating common platform components and libs (AWS, Go, Python, Erlang, Kafka)
Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders from the wider organization to understand and drive requirements and improvements across the platform
Building on our CloudNative platform, enabling more use of AWS technology to aid in speeding up delivery, scale, and resiliency
Building on our observability tooling and infrastructure to better understand the capabilities of our systems
Growing the engineering community, building on the existing process and practices
Leading initiatives and tasks and driving them to completion
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team productivity and efficiency.

You can expect
Well-rounded compensation package
We want you to be happy. One of the ways we can do that is to ensure that you get rewarded for your achievements and get a generous compensation package, short-term and long-term incentive plans, and sessional bonuses for your skills and what you bring to the table.

Open vacation policy & workplace flexibility
There should always be balance. Workplaces included. That's why we'll always encourage you to take a vacation and use your free days to hang out with friends & family and tailor your work schedule and time in the office. Self-care is essential. It's that simple.

Growth & Development budget
We are constantly questioning our methods and adopting new practices.
That's why every employee gets 2500EUR to use on conferences, coaching, books, courses, lectures… you name it. So go on, try new things, discover new technologies and we'll be there to support you along the way.

Health & Wellbeing
Healthy body, healthy mind. Stay fit with an activity of your choosing.
Besides our employee assistance program, annual health checks, and covered sick leave, we have your back for other (unexpected) medical expenses.
Focus on getting better, and let us take care of the rest.

Team fun budget
Nothing can bring you closer to your teammates than out-of-office socializing. That's why every team gets a budget to spend on activities of their choosing. Is it going to be karting or steak fine dining? Maybe a trampoline? Either way, it will include at least one shot.

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