Senior Server Engineer

🕒 August 5

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Rush Street Interactive

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2012

🎲 Gambling

🎮 Gaming

💰 $160M Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

Gambling • Gaming • Entertainment

Rush Street Interactive is a leading company in the online gaming industry, specialising in online casinos and sports betting. Known for building highly recognizable and approachable brands like BetRivers, RushBet, and PlaySugarHouse, the company offers player-centric online casino and sportsbook experiences in North America and Latin America. With a focus on innovation and customer retention, Rush Street Interactive strives to deliver engaging, real-money gaming products, and memorable entertainment experiences across various platforms. They are committed to creating user-friendly and fair gaming environments while expanding their footprint globally.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Java and related frameworks • Develop high-performance microservices, RESTful APIs, and service-to-service integrations for a highly available distributed platform • Design and implement event-driven architectures using Kafka and asynchronous messaging • Build resilient integrations with internal and third-party systems, including retry handling, idempotency, monitoring, and operational support • Define and evolve event contracts, payload schemas, API standards, versioning strategies, and integration patterns • Drive platform modernization by reducing technical debt, simplifying legacy systems, and consolidating services • Ensure services are secure, observable, maintainable, and production-ready through automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and performance optimization • Lead production incident investigations, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term improvements • Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, pair programming, mentoring, hiring, onboarding, and engineering best practices • Collaborate closely with Product, Analytics, Data Engineering, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience with strong backend engineering expertise • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience • Advanced experience with Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Dropwizard • Experience designing distributed systems, microservices, RESTful APIs, and backend integration patterns • Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture and messaging platforms such as Kafka • Experience with relational databases, including PostgreSQL and Oracle; Redis familiarity is a plus • Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, DevOps practices, and AWS • Understanding of observability, including logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and production diagnostics • Experience leading technical discussions, making architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers in Agile environments • Excellent communication skills for explaining technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences • Ability to travel occasionally, domestically and internationally

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, prescription drugs, vision, and paramedical services) • Competitive dental plan with strong coverage for basic, major, and orthodontic services • Annual Health Care Spending Account (HCSA) to support your personalized wellness needs • 24/7 virtual healthcare access for you and your eligible dependents • Life, disability, and AD&D insurance • Wellness-focused perks including mental health support and rewards programs • RRSP and company DPSP contribution, up to 100% of the first 4% • Parental leave top up policy • Paid vacation and sick time • Comprehensive compensation • Work-life balance initiatives • Autonomy – personal freedom and responsibility • Creativity and openness to new ideas • Personal and professional growth opportunities • Supportive, people-oriented atmosphere