Hard Rock Digital
Staff Backend Engineer - Promos
United States, FL · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- Typically 7+ years of software engineering experience; substantial experience designing and operating distributed backend systems.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent demonstrated experience.
About the job
Own technical direction and build reliable, scalable backend promotion capabilities, guiding architecture and cross-team initiatives from discovery through production.
What you'll do
- Set backend architecture and technical strategy for the Promos domain; guide modernization and major initiatives.
- Build and operate promotion services, including lifecycle, rewards, APIs, events, resilience, and operational controls.
- Lead engineering quality and incident improvements, mentor engineers, and advance responsible AI-assisted development.
What they ask for
- Typically 7+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial experience designing and operating distributed backend systems.
- Deep expertise with Java, Spring, and Spring Boot; strong AWS knowledge and experience with multi-region, highly available applications.
- Experience with relational data systems, streaming and messaging technologies, microservice architectures, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Demonstrated technical strategy, multi-team delivery, and hands-on AI-assisted development, with understanding of responsible use and risk.
Nice to have
- Experience in sportsbook, casino, online gaming, fintech, banking, or another regulated digital industry.
- Experience with promotion, loyalty, offer, reward, experimentation, or customer engagement platforms.
Tools
Java, Spring, Spring Boot, AWS, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Amazon Kinesis, Kafka
AI focus
Drive responsible AI-assisted development across engineering workflows and identify product or operational AI uses, with evaluation, privacy, security, human accountability, and production-safety guardrails.
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