Staff Software Engineer
About us
Happening is the technology engine powering Superbet Group's global platforms and brands that bring thrill to customers across the world every day. We are a game-changing tech company rewriting the rules of sports betting and gaming. We are shaking up the status quo by building our own end-to-end tech stack, solving deep and complex challenges for millions of customers and shaping our culture to work uniquely for the tech community. A true challenger, our technology handles serious scale on par with the Big Techs, and customer obsession runs through every team. Building our own platform gives freedom to innovate and flip the legacy perceptions and industry stereotypes.
About the role
We’re creating a brand‑new Search & Discovery team to power how millions of customers find, explore and act on content across our product offering universe. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be the founding technical anchor of this team. You’ll set the technical vision, build the first versions of our systems, establish engineering standards and mentor other engineers. If you love turning ambiguity into robust, scalable platforms and want to have outsized impact on both product and engineering culture, this is the role.
What you'll be doing
- Set the technical direction for Search & Discovery
- Design, build and operate the first generation of our search platform.
- Partner with cross functional leadership to define the vision & strategy for the charter
- Coach & mentor engineers, help with hiring and shape the team’s identity, ways of working, and high bar for engineering excellence.
- Champion platform thinking
Key skills
- A minimum of 10 years of hands on experience in a large scale production environment.
- Deep experience designing & operating search & discovery or large-scale data/retrieval systems.
- A track record of turning messy, ambiguous problems into clear architectures and iterative delivery plans.
- Strong system design skills
- Hands-on mindset — you ship, measure, iterate. You know when to be scrappy and when to be rigorous.
- Leadership without authority: you mentor, influence, and raise the bar across teams.
- Bias for clarity & impact: you frame trade-offs, make decisions and tie work to measurable outcomes.
- Comfort working across multiple product surfaces (web, native, internal tools) and multi-lingual contexts.
- Experience building high-quality, highly scalable software and distributed systems.
Bonus points for
- Betting/gaming industry experience
Top Skills
What We Do
Happening is the technology engine powering Superbet Group's global platforms and brands that bring thrill to customers across the world every day.
We are a game-changing tech company rewriting the rules of sports betting and gaming. We are shaking up the status quo by building our own end-to-end tech stack, solving deep and complex challenges for millions of customers and shaping our culture to work uniquely for the tech community.
A true challenger, our technology handles serious scale on par with the Big Techs, and customer obsession runs through every team. Building our own platform gives us freedom to innovate and flip the legacy perceptions and industry stereotypes.
