Gaming Architect

The role

The Gaming Architect will define and govern the architecture of scalable, resilient, and secure backend services for the gaming platform. This role involves translating product, operational, and regulatory requirements into technical designs across game management, gameplay, and provider integrations.

What you will do

• Define and evolve the target architecture for gaming backend services
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into solution designs and technical roadmaps
• Design solutions for game management, gameplay, player and wallet interactions, and regulatory functions
• Model domain capabilities and service boundaries using domain-driven design
• Architect APIs, asynchronous events, and real-time messaging flows
• Design for high availability, low latency, and horizontal scalability
• Embed security by design including authentication, authorization, and encryption
• Work with security, legal, and compliance stakeholders to support regulatory obligations
• Lead architecture reviews and maintain reference patterns and standards
• Mentor technical leads and engineers

Required qualifications

• 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
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL data stores
• Experience with messaging and event-streaming technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes
• 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
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, facilitation, and communication skills

Nice to have

• Practical knowledge of AWS or an equivalent cloud platform
• Familiarity with game-provider, player-account, wallet, responsible-gaming, or regulatory integrations

Benefits

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

About the company

Betsson is a global engineering organisation building high-scale, real-time platforms across 40+ digital brands. The company has more than 60 years in the industry and employs 3,000+ people across 7 offices.