Stefan Burgić
Backend Team Lead
Belgrade, Serbia
Backend Team Lead with 8+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems across fintech, iGaming, renewable energy, and enterprise domains. Lead engineering teams and drive architecture decisions on high-availability production systems.
8+
Years Experience
10+
Projects Shipped
5+
Industries
20+
Technologies
01. — ABOUT
About
Backend Team Lead with 8+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems across fintech, iGaming, renewable energy, and enterprise domains. Lead engineering teams and drive architecture decisions on high-availability production systems.
I own technical direction end-to-end — from initial system design through delivery — specializing in distributed architectures, domain-driven development, and aligning engineering with business outcomes.
02. — EXPERIENCE
Experience
Mar 2022 – Present
Belgrade
SOLID Code
Company Owner / Backend Team Lead
Projects:
- BoyleSports
- Software management for renewable industry & electricians
- Dynamic Life ↗
- Led backend teams across multiple concurrent enterprise projects in fintech, iGaming, and renewable energy — driving architecture decisions and keeping engineering aligned with business goals
- Designed distributed, event-driven backend systems using RabbitMQ and Redis for high-availability operational platforms serving production workloads at scale
- Owned end-to-end backend architecture for BoyleSports — Ireland's largest independent bookmaker — ensuring system reliability and scalability under high-traffic conditions
- Drove adoption of DDD, CQRS, and clean architecture practices across all projects, reducing coupling and improving long-term maintainability
- Conducted full recruitment cycles — technical screening, interviews, and structured evaluation — and onboarded engineers into established codebases and team workflows
- Acted as bridge between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders, translating business requirements into system-level decisions
Aug 2021 – Mar 2022
Belgrade
Europoint System DOO
Senior Software Engineer
Projects:
- System for payment orders
- Defined microservice architecture and bounded contexts for a large-scale payment processing system serving one of Serbia's largest payment providers
- Modeled domain aggregates and state machines using DDD and Event Sourcing to ensure full auditability and consistency across payment flows
- Integrated Dilisense API for real-time anti-money laundering compliance within the transaction processing pipeline
- Collaborated with business analysts to translate complex regulatory requirements into precise technical specifications
Sep 2019 – Jul 2021
Belgrade
Smart Code House DOO
Software Engineer
Projects:
- Document search engine
- Application for retail network management
- Designed system architecture and built a document search platform enabling multi-parameter search across people, organizations, and vessels using ElasticSearch
- Delivered a retail network management platform for monitoring field commercialists, their tasks, visits, and exchange office statuses across a distributed network
- Implemented distributed messaging infrastructure using RabbitMQ and managed containerized deployments across development and production environments
Apr 2018 – Sep 2019
Belgrade
Application Software Partner
Software Engineer
Projects:
- Application for managing losses and loss calculator
- Application for merging duplicate person records
- Delivered loss management tooling and a duplicate record resolution system for Sava Osiguranje, one of Serbia's largest insurance companies
- Integrated new components into a complex legacy insurance platform while maintaining stability across existing workflows
- Contributed to CI/CD pipeline improvements using Jenkins, reducing manual deployment overhead
Jun 2017 – Jun 2019
Belgrade
Faculty of Computing
Teaching Assistant
- Taught and evaluated students across three courses: Algorithms and Data Structures, Object-Oriented Programming (Java), and Introduction to Programming (C)
- Composed and reviewed assessments, providing structured feedback to improve student outcomes
03. — PROJECTS
Projects
Side projects and independent work
Tortue Framework
3Jun 2022 – Aug 2022
Defined and built a microservice for manipulating Tortue objects within a flexible website building framework. Owned the API design and service architecture.
WevoAI
4Jun 2021 – Jan 2022
Delivered full backend architecture for a mental health mobile application — questionnaire storage, retrieval, and personalized solution matching for users with anxiety.
AllRepairmen
2Sep 2020 – Apr 2021
Designed business model, system architecture, and infrastructure from scratch for an online platform connecting repairmen with clients. Included landing page, web app, and back office.
ICICB CryptoExchange
3May 2019 – Sep 2019
Architected and built an online crypto and fiat currency exchange from scratch — business model, distributed backend, and full infrastructure setup.
04. — SKILLS
Skills
Backend
Architecture
Cloud & DevOps
Databases
05. — EDUCATION
Education
Union University
Faculty of Computing
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Thesis: “Clean Architecture and SOLID Principles”
2015 - 2021
06. — AWARDS
Awards
RAF Hackathon — 1st Place
Dec 2019Developed application for improving surveys with an Instagram stories plugin for creating surveys via Instagram.
National Competition in Informatics — Honourable Mention
2013National-level competition in informatics.
National Competition in Informatics — Participant
2015, 2014, 2012Participated in national-level informatics competitions.
07. — CONTACT
Contact
Let's work together.