# Principal Software Engineer, Backend

About Yes.com Limited Yes is an AI native online casino and sportsbook preparing to launch under a Danish Gambling Authority (DGA) licence. We run on the EveryMatrix platform for wallet, payments, casino, sportsbook and bonuses, and build our own services on Google Cloud (GKE and Cloud Run) to own the player experience across iOS, Android, mobile web and desktop. We are a small senior team. Every engineer ships, owns what they ship, and works in a regulated environment where availability, auditability and player protection are not optional. About the role Our backend layer is a set of Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) services, written in Java, that sit between our clients and the vendor platform. They aggregate, shape and cache data for each client, handle both request-response and real-time event traffic, and enforce security and regulatory rules before anything reaches the player. As a Principal Backend Engineer you set the reference architecture for these services and are accountable for how fast and how reliably they run. You will write production code, make the hard design calls, and raise the bar for every backend engineer who joins after you. What you will own Our backend layer is

- **Id**: 3753751
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/yes-principal-software-engineer-backend>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T11:37:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T18:32:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5608
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Sports Betting, iGaming & Gambling

## Company

- **Id**: 1886517
- **Name**: Yes
- **Domain**: yes.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/yes-com>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **API Gateway** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Clean Architecture** — Optional: no
- **Cloudflare** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GDPR** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Google Cloud Run** — Optional: no
- **Google GKE** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **PCI DSS** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **WebSockets** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: Danish; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T16:15:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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