Gaming Architect

What You’ll Work On

Backend Architecture and Technical Direction:  

• Define and evolve the target architecture for gaming backend services, ensuring alignment with business strategy, domain boundaries, and the wider platform landscape. 
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into clear solution designs, integration contracts, architecture decisions, and technical roadmaps. 
• Promote modular, loosely coupled, and reusable services that support independent delivery and future B2C or B2B integration scenarios. 

Gaming Domain Design: 

• Design solutions across game management, gameplay, player and wallet interactions, provider integration, promotions, responsible gaming, regulatory functions, and operational tooling. 
• Model domain capabilities, service boundaries, ownership, and event flows using domain-driven design and product-oriented architecture principles. 
• Ensure backend designs support accurate session handling, game launch and lifecycle flows, transactional integrity, reconciliation, and auditable gaming outcomes. 

Distributed Systems and Integration: 

• Architect APIs, asynchronous events, and real-time messaging flows between gaming services, internal platform domains, data products, and external game providers. 
• Define reliable integration patterns for REST, event streaming, queues, webhooks, and provider-specific protocols, including versioning, idempotency, retries, timeouts, and failure handling. 
• Drive the standardisation of contracts and integration frameworks to reduce coupling and accelerate onboarding of new providers, brands, and markets. 

Scalability, Reliability, and Performance: 

• Design for high availability, low latency, horizontal scalability, fault isolation, graceful degradation, disaster recovery, and predictable performance under peak gaming loads. 
• Define service-level objectives and guide capacity planning, caching, data-store selection, resilience testing, and performance optimisation. 
• Ensure solutions include effective observability through metrics, logs, distributed tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards. 

Security, Compliance, and Responsible Gaming: 

• Embed security by design, including strong authentication and authorisation, least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, network segmentation, and secure software supply-chain practices. 
• Work with security, legal, and compliance stakeholders to ensure architecture supports jurisdiction-specific gaming controls, responsible gaming measures, auditability, data protection, and regulatory reporting obligations. 
• Maintain clear separation of regulated components and data where required, while supporting traceability and evidencing for audits and technical submissions. 

Technical Governance and Delivery Enablement: 

• Lead architecture reviews, document decisions and trade-offs, and maintain reference patterns, standards, and reusable guidance for engineering teams. 
• Partner with technical leads and developers throughout delivery, providing hands-on guidance, reviewing critical designs, and validating that implementations meet architectural intent. 
• Identify and prioritise technical debt, modernisation opportunities, and platform simplification initiatives that improve stability and time to market. 

Collaboration and Communication:

• Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, architects, operations, data, infrastructure, security, compliance, and external suppliers to create shared understanding and alignment.
• Explain complex technical concepts, risks, options, and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor technical leads and engineers, encourage sound architectural thinking, and foster continuous improvement across the gaming domain. 

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience. 
• Several years of senior software engineering experience, including responsibility for 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 backend technologies such as .NET, Java, or an equivalent modern stack, together with SQL and NoSQL data stores. 
• Experience with messaging and event-streaming technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, and with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes. 
• Experience designing cloud-based architectures; practical knowledge of AWS or an equivalent cloud platform is highly desirable. 
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, production operations, incident analysis, and modern DevSecOps practices. 
• Relevant experience in online gaming or another high-volume, transactional, regulated digital industry; familiarity with game-provider, player-account, wallet, responsible-gaming, or regulatory integrations is an advantage. 
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, facilitation, and communication skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority. 

If you are a pragmatic and influential architect with deep backend engineering expertise and a passion for building secure, resilient, and scalable gaming platforms, we invite you to apply and help shape the future of our gaming technology. 

What we offer

Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 3,000+ strong, spread across 7 offices with 1,200 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.

• Hybrid working model
• Private health insurance
• Life insurance
• Wellness allowance
• Home office set-up allowance
• 24 days annual holiday leave + additional days for public holidays falling on weekends
• Flexible compensation benefits
• Remote working from abroad options

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