Gaming Architect

About the role

At Betsson Group, you will be part of a global engineering team focused on creating high-scale, real-time gaming platforms for over 40 brands. This role emphasizes the development of robust backend architectures that prioritize performance, security, and compliance with regulatory standards.

As a Gaming Architect, you will define the architecture for backend services, ensuring they align with business goals and technical requirements. Success in this position involves promoting modular service designs and collaborating effectively with various stakeholders to drive innovation and maintain high availability in gaming operations.

Skills that matter here

• .NET: Experience with .NET is crucial for designing and implementing backend services.
• Java: Java knowledge is essential for developing scalable and reliable backend solutions.
• SQL: Proficiency in SQL is needed for managing and querying data in relational databases.
• NoSQL: Familiarity with NoSQL databases supports the handling of diverse data types and structures.
• AWS: Experience with AWS is important for architecting cloud-based solutions.
• Kafka: Knowledge of Kafka is necessary for managing event-driven architectures and real-time messaging.

Who this role suits

• Candidates should have a strong background in software engineering with a focus on backend systems.
• The ideal person thrives in collaborative environments and effectively communicates complex concepts.
• They should be adaptable, able to mentor others, and committed to continuous improvement.
• Experience in regulated industries, particularly online gaming, is advantageous.

From the employer

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.

What we offer

• 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