Staff Engineer

🕒 October 6

🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Valsea Technology

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

Consulting

Valsea Technology is a global tech company that consistently delivers engaging digital experiences for clients. Their strategy seamlessly integrates software design and engineering to create advanced, innovative, data-driven technological solutions. Valsea emphasizes a corporate culture of trust in their in-house team, working in agile structures to efficiently execute projects.

📋 Description

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for AI adoption across Valsea's product, platform, and internal tooling • Architect and lead delivery of AI-powered capabilities into the Scala/Go/Kafka backend • Develop recommendation, personalisation, support, fraud, risk, agentic automation, and internal developer tooling capabilities • Set the roadmap for agentic QA automation and AI-accelerated support and incident response • Introduce AI tooling into GitHub/GitLab software development lifecycle pipelines, including code review, testing, and deployment gates • Evaluate and integrate self-hosted and API-based LLM/ML infrastructure • Establish standards for designing, testing, monitoring, and rolling back AI features • Partner with Engineering leadership, Product, and Data to identify AI opportunities and create delivery plans • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and managers • Run design reviews and raise the technical bar for AI-assisted and AI-driven systems • Prototype quickly, work directly in the codebase, and resolve difficult integration and performance issues

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience • Significant experience in the JVM/Scala ecosystem, or a comparably strong background in a statically typed, distributed-systems-heavy language • Proven Staff/Principal-level scope, including setting technical direction • Hands-on experience shipping AI/ML-powered features into production at real scale • Experience with LLM integration, recommendation systems, applied ML, or agentic infrastructure • Deep familiarity with event-driven, distributed architectures, including Akka/Pekko and Kafka or equivalent • Strong hands-on experience with distributed systems and container orchestration, including Kubernetes and Docker • Experience making build-vs-buy and platform decisions involving cost, latency, data privacy, and vendor risk for AI systems • Product-minded approach focused on player impact and business outcomes • Strong communication skills across technical and leadership audiences • Ability to thrive in ambiguity and help define the role's scope • Professional-level English communication, written and verbal • EU-based residence/work eligibility; Valsea cannot sponsor work visas outside the EU

🏖️ Benefits

• Hybrid working model from the Marbella office (3 days/week) or fully remote within the EU • Innovative international company using cutting-edge tech equipment • Company laptop and other equipment needed to work comfortably • Flexible working hours • 23 paid vacation days plus public holidays • Private health insurance for you and your family • Free online English/Spanish lessons • Corporate events throughout the year • Ongoing learning and professional development opportunities • Daily breakfast and freshly cooked lunch 3 days a week • 50% discount on personal training and physiotherapy sessions • Games room, full kitchen with hot drinks, fruit, soft drinks, gym, massage room and more • Annual company trip and other team events for remote workers