Location: Remote from Europe (working hours: day time CET)

Key Responsibilities

• Build & Mentor: Build and lead high-performing engineering teams (Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Internal Games), fostering a strong culture of quality, ownership, and growth with clear career paths.
• Drive Execution: Orchestrate high-speed, predictable delivery across concurrent workstreams (Casino, Sportsbook, Sweepstakes, etc.), managing resources, capacity, and driving swift technical decisions to resolve blockers.
• Technical Strategy: Define and guide architectural decisions aligned with the CTO's vision, ensuring system scalability, contributing code when critical, and maintaining elite standards for code quality and reliability.
• Operational Excellence: Guarantee production stability, incident readiness, lead complex troubleshooting, flawlessly prepare the platform for major releases and traffic spikes, and ensure the system is observable and cost-optimized.
• Process & Alignment: Implement and refine processes (CI/CD, testing, etc.) for high-quality delivery, ensuring consistent practices across teams, and streamlining release planning and workflows with Product Delivery.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

Main requirements:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience in fast-paced online environments, iGaming background is preferred. 
• 3-5+ years leading engineering teams or engineering managers.
• Proven experience scaling engineering organizations (ideally 15-40 engineers).
• Strong track record developing engineering leads and senior technical contributors.
  
  Technical Expertise

• Strong hands-on backend experience (Node.js, Java, Go, Python, or similar).
• Understanding of modern frontend development (JavaScript/TypeScript, modern web architectures).
• Solid grasp of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong database experience (PostgreSQL/MySQL), caching (Redis), and messaging systems.
• Experience building highly available, low-latency platforms.
• Solid cloud experience (AWS or GCP) and container ecosystems (Kubernetes/ECS).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling.
• Ability to switch between strategic architectural thinking and hands-on technical problem-solving.
• Active coding ability (up to ~20%) to contribute to critical paths, unblock teams, and support architectural validation.

Why Join us?

• The chance to make a tangible impact in a rapidly growing, global company.
• A culture that rewards ambition, innovation, and collaboration.
• 28 days of paid vacation & public holidays for remote workers.
• Comprehensive benefits package for Malta-based employees, including:
  • Private health insurance, wellness allowance, and communication allowance.
  • Healthy lunch on Wednesdays, Social Fridays, and Summer & Christmas events.
  • Employee discounts in restaurants and businesses.
  • Extended second-parent leave policy.
  • Private parking space.