Head of Engineering 🚀

About the position

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. 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.

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