Gaming Architect
Betsson Group2 months ago
Malta (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the target architecture for scalable, resilient gaming backend services.
- Design domain capabilities, service boundaries, event flows, and integrations across gameplay, wallets, providers, promotions, responsible gaming, and regulatory functions.
- Architect APIs, asynchronous events, real-time messaging, queues, webhooks, and provider integration patterns.
- Design for high availability, low latency, horizontal scalability, fault isolation, disaster recovery, observability, and predictable peak-load performance.
- Embed security, compliance, auditability, data protection, and responsible-gaming controls into platform architecture.
- Lead architecture reviews, document technical decisions, maintain standards and reference patterns, and identify technical debt and modernization opportunities.
- Provide hands-on guidance to engineering teams, validate implementations, mentor technical leads, and communicate technical trade-offs to diverse stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
- Several years of senior software engineering experience designing complex backend or distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, API design, and integration patterns.
- Hands-on experience with .NET, Java, or an equivalent modern backend stack, plus SQL and NoSQL data stores.
- Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ and container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience designing cloud-based architectures, preferably with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform.
- Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, production operations, incident analysis, and DevSecOps practices.
- Relevant experience in online gaming or another high-volume, transactional, regulated digital industry is preferred; familiarity with game-provider, player-account, wallet, responsible-gaming, or regulatory integrations is advantageous.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, facilitation, communication, and influencing skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model.
- Private health insurance and life insurance.
- Wellness allowance and home office set-up allowance.
- 24 days of annual holiday leave plus additional days for public holidays falling on weekends.
- Flexible compensation benefits.
- Options for remote working from abroad.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendGaming
About Betsson Group
Betsson Group develops and operates online gambling platforms—casino, sportsbook and other iGaming—serving consumers through more than 20 brands and offering B2B platform services. It competes in regulated markets using proprietary technology, monetizing via gaming operations and partner licensing. Founded in 1963, it is part of Stockholm-listed Betsson AB; operations are run from Ta’ Xbiex, Malta, with licences across multiple jurisdictions in Europe and beyond.