Principal Engineer at Pentasia
Berlin, Berlin, Germany -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

03 Dec, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

04 Sep, 26

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Yes

Skills

Industry

Information & Data Services

Description
  • What You'll DoLead the architecture and development of core backend and platform services.
  • Design and build high-performance transactional systems using Java.
  • Define service boundaries, APIs, data models, integration patterns, and event-driven architecture.
  • Solve complex problems around consistency, idempotency, transaction integrity, scalability, and failure handling.
  • Build systems capable of handling high volumes and demanding sportsbook/betting peaks.
  • Design integrations with payment gateways, payment providers, and third-party platforms.
  • Establish engineering standards around testing, observability, reliability, CI/CD, and code quality.
  • Contribute hands-on code while providing technical leadership and mentoring senior engineers.
  • Help shape the backend engineering organisation as the platform grows.
  • Support the migration from existing third-party technology where required.


  • What We're Looking For10+ years of backend engineering experience, including significant Staff/Principal-level architecture ownership.
  • Expert Java knowledge and strong understanding of the modern JVM, including performance, concurrency, and memory management.
  • Proven experience building high-throughput, high-performance transactional systems.
  • Experience with wallets, payments, ledgers, account management, billing, trading, or similar money-moving platforms.
  • Strong experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including performance and scaling.
  • Solid distributed-systems knowledge, including event-driven architecture, Kafka or similar technologies, idempotency, sagas/outbox patterns, and failure handling.
  • Experience taking a greenfield platform from initial architecture through to production.
  • Experience integrating backend platforms with payment gateways and external providers.
  • Excellent English communication skills.


  • Highly DesirableiGaming, sportsbook, PAM, wallet, payments, or wider gaming-platform experience.
  • Experience working in regulated or high-volume transactional environments.
  • Knowledge of KYC/AML, responsible gaming, or regulatory requirements.
  • Kubernetes and cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Experience migrating away from a third-party platform.


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