What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scala Engineer - Betting Engine position at Caesars Sportsbook & Casino?
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Scala Engineer to join our team and work on our core Betting Engine. This critical platform processes millions of transactions in real time, ensuring reliability, scalability, and accuracy for our users. As a Scala Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and building robust backend systems that drive our betting operations.
This role will be hybrid, in the Jersey City office 3 times per week.
What You Will Do
Behold! Caesars Sportsbook is here, and we’re proud to be a part of Caesars Entertainment—the number one gaming company in the world with over 80 years of sports betting expertise.
At Caesars Sportsbook, we believe all our Team Members should be treated like Caesars. It’s the mantra we were founded on, and the standard that drives us to provide our customers with best-in-class service.
As we continue to Blaze The Trail with our Caesars Sportsbook & Casino app, the expansion of our Caesars Sportsbook retail locations, our World Series of Poker franchise, our William Hill legacy brand, and partnerships with the biggest names in sports and entertainment, we’re creating new and exciting opportunities for you to be a part of our empire and make an impact.
Interested in joining the team? Check out our job postings and see what we have to offer, people. And remember—We Are All Caesars!
We are seeking a highly skilled Scala Engineer to join our team and work on our core Betting Engine. This critical platform processes millions of transactions in real time, ensuring reliability, scalability, and accuracy for our users. As a Scala Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and building robust backend systems that drive our betting operations.
This role will be hybrid, in the Jersey City office 3 times per week.
What You Will Do
- Build, test, and maintain robust backend systems using Scala.
- Collaborate with senior engineers to implement scalable and reliable solutions for real-time betting systems.
- Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to develop features that enhance user experience and system capabilities.
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that meets performance requirements.
- Debug and resolve technical issues within the betting engine and related services.
- Analyze system performance and implement optimizations for speed and reliability.
- Partner with cross-functional teams, including QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams, to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Participate in code reviews to ensure high-quality standards and knowledge sharing.
- Support reporting capabilities and requirements as required.
- Identify opportunities to enhance system performance and stability.
- Stay updated on industry trends and technologies to maintain a competitive edge.
- 3 years of experience in backend development, with at least 2 years working with Scala in production.
- Strong knowledge of functional programming principles and practices.
- Experience with real-time systems, high-throughput APIs, and low-latency data processing.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Proficiency in working with databases, both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational (e.g., Cassandra, Redis).
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering clean, maintainable code.
- Must be available for rotational on-call duty every 3-4 weeks between 11am - 11pm ET, including weekends and holidays
Behold! Caesars Sportsbook is here, and we’re proud to be a part of Caesars Entertainment—the number one gaming company in the world with over 80 years of sports betting expertise.
At Caesars Sportsbook, we believe all our Team Members should be treated like Caesars. It’s the mantra we were founded on, and the standard that drives us to provide our customers with best-in-class service.
As we continue to Blaze The Trail with our Caesars Sportsbook & Casino app, the expansion of our Caesars Sportsbook retail locations, our World Series of Poker franchise, our William Hill legacy brand, and partnerships with the biggest names in sports and entertainment, we’re creating new and exciting opportunities for you to be a part of our empire and make an impact.
Interested in joining the team? Check out our job postings and see what we have to offer, people. And remember—We Are All Caesars!
