Backend Team Lead (Node.js)

About us

We’re just 1 year old, already 40 people, and growing quickly. Our slot games are played by more than 1 million people every month, and this is only the beginning.

What we do

Each spin passes through our backend: the game math decides the outcome, a transaction moves the balance, promo features kick in, and analytics records it. It all has to be correct, fast and ready for traffic that keeps growing, so we keep p95 low and stable under any load.

Your role

You’ll be responsible for two things: the people who build our backend and the architecture they build. You’ll report directly to the CTO and work with them on where the backend and the team are heading, then make it happen.

What you’ll work on

• Growing the team: hire backend engineers, run one-on-ones, give honest feedback, and help each person grow

• Leading the team: plan and prioritize work, remove blockers, and build a culture where people own their results

• Architecture decisions: lead the design of our new Nest.js backend from scratch, make the key technical calls and take responsibility for them

• The rebuild: plan how we move from the old system to the new one, step by step and without downtime for players

• Technical standards: set the bar for code quality, reviews, testing and design across the backend

• Hands-on work: stay close to the code on the most critical parts: transactions, integrations with operators and aggregators, and real-time promo features

• Reliability: own our latency targets and keep p95 and p99 low as traffic grows

• On-call: shape our on-call rotation and take part in it just like everyone else on the team, because you own what you build

What we’re looking for

• 7+ years of production Node.js and TypeScript, with solid hands-on Nest.js experience

• 2+ years of managing a backend team: hiring, one-on-ones, feedback and performance conversations

• A track record of leading architecture decisions and owning their outcome in production

• Experience with systems where correctness matters (payments, wallets, ledgers): transactions, locking, idempotency

• Deep Postgres knowledge: indexes, query plans, isolation levels, autovacuum tuning, live migrations

• Redis in production beyond caching (leaderboards, rate limiting, distributed locks)

• Confidence running and debugging services on Kubernetes

• Clear communication with engineers, product and business

It’s a plus if you’ve

• Led the migration of a live system to a new architecture

• Built GraphQL APIs

• Worked with ClickHouse or another columnar database

• Built event-driven systems with Kafka, NATS or similar

• Set up observability with OpenTelemetry, plus Grafana dashboards and alerts

How we work with AI

We’re AI-first: AI is part of everything we do, from design to code review. A premium Claude subscription is on us, and we keep going deeper. What doesn’t change is ownership: AI writes the code, but people stand behind it.

What we offer

• Competitive salary in USD

• 20 days of paid vacation, 15 sick days, and your birthday off

• Remote work or our office in Barcelona

• 9:00–18:00 or 10:00–19:00 CET, your choice

• Zero bureaucracy, so decisions take hours, not weeks

• Summer and winter gatherings that bring the whole team together from all over Europe

How we hire

• 30-minute screening call with our recruiter

• 60-minute technical interview on architecture and real backend problems, no algorithm puzzles

• 30-minute final interview with the CTO

Feedback at every stage, whatever the outcome.

To apply: send your CV plus a few lines about a team you led or a system you designed where correctness or scale really mattered.