// Open Role at Rush Street Interactive
Join Rush Street Interactive as a Senior Server Engineer to architect and build scalable, event-driven backend services and APIs for high-volume online casino and sports betting platforms, contributing to a mobile-first gaming experience.
Rush Street Interactive (NYSE: RSI) is a market leader in online casino and sports betting, currently operating real-money gaming with our brands: BetRivers.com, PlaySugarHouse.com, and RushBet.co. We’re building bridges between online, social and land-based gaming businesses to create amazing, integrated experiences that keep players in the game.
Rush Street Interactive is a mobile-first company evolving digital architecture into a modern, scalable, event-driven platform. As a Senior Server Engineer, you will play a foundational role in designing and building the backend services, APIs, event processing systems, and integrations that power our digital experiences and enable analytics, lifecycle engagement, and downstream data systems. This role goes beyond feature delivery. You will help architect scalable backend services, event-driven workflows, and platform capabilities.
This role works closely with Product Managers, Analytics, Data Engineering, Infrastructure, and other engineering teams and, in addition to hands-on development. This role requires deep backend engineering expertise combined with systems thinking, mentoring experience, architectural discipline, and a strong appreciation for scalability, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
What You'll Do:
What You'll Bring:
This role spans a wide breadth of experience at Rush Street Interactive, welcoming candidates with diverse experiences, backgrounds, and locations. The pay range reflects potential variations in experience, skills, and location. The pay range does not reflect total compensation, which includes base pay, benefits, and/or bonuses. For candidates outside the US (Canada, Europe, Latin America), we take a locally informed approach to compensation and will share specific ranges based on your country of residence.
Location Eligibility (for nationwide roles): Open to candidates across the U.S.
Location Eligibility (for other roles): Location requirements may vary and will be specified in the job posting.
Canada Benefits:
Pay Range for candidates in Canada:
$124,000—$186,000 CAD
What Makes Us Great:
As a rapidly growing company in an emerging industry, you’ll have a huge impact on our product and our company. We like proactive team members and strive to have a company of self-disciplined professionals who enjoy collaboration, having fun, and of course, achieving together what others believe to be improbable. We are dedicated to treating everyone with respect and to support your professional and personal growth.
Rush Street Interactive is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity and expression, marital status, family status, lifestyle, age, culture, religion, military and veteran status, citizenship, or disability.
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Rush Street Interactive uses AI-assisted tools at select stages of the hiring process to enhance efficiency, consistency, and communication. AI does not make hiring decisions - final decisions are made exclusively by our recruiting and hiring teams.
Rush Street Interactive participates in E-Verify for U.S.-based positions. As required by federal law, we provide the following notices to all prospective U.S. employees:
E-Verify Participation Notice (English/Spanish)
Right to Work Notice (English/Spanish)
- 8+ years of professional software development experience with deep backend engineering expertise - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience - Advanced proficiency in Java using Spring Boot, Hibernate, Dropwizard, or similar enterprise frameworks - Proven track record designing distributed systems and microservice architectures - Demonstrated expertise in RESTful APIs and backend integration patterns - Deep understanding of event-driven architectures and message brokers such as Kafka - Solid working knowledge of relational databases including Postgres and Oracle - Hands-on background with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and DevOps practices - Strong understanding of observability, including logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and production diagnostics - Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions and drive architectural decisions across multiple teams - Track record of mentoring and coaching engineers within Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments - Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills in English - Self-starter attitude with high ownership and accountability in complex, evolving environments - Working knowledge of AWS and infrastructure-as-code practices