Gaming Architect

At Betsson,

you’ll join a global engineering organisation building high‑scale, real‑time platforms across 40+ digital brands. After more than

60 years in the industry, our products handle large volumes of user activity and complex regulatory requirements — making

performance, reliability and modern cloud‑native engineering essential to everything we do. You’ll collaborate with colleagues

from 75+ nationalities in a culture built on learning, ownership and teamwork.

​ About the

Role​

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Gaming Architect to define and govern the architecture of

scalable, resilient, and secure backend services for our gaming platform. The role will translate product, operational, and

regulatory requirements into robust technical designs across game management, gameplay, provider integrations, player and wallet

interactions, promotions, responsible gaming, and regulatory capabilities. The ideal candidate combines strong software

engineering expertise with systems thinking, cloud-native architecture experience, and a practical understanding of high-volume

online gaming environments. You will collaborate with the rest of the architecture department, product, engineering,

infrastructure, security, data, compliance, and

external partners to guide implementation and the long-term evolution of the platform.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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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