Director of Technology – Chief Architect

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🇵🇱 Poland – Remote

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High 5 Games

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1995

🎮 Gaming

🎲 Gambling

🤝 B2B

Gaming • Gambling • B2B

High 5 Games is a developer and supplier of casino slot games and related platform services. The company creates and distributes dozens of online and land-based slot titles (over 150), offers progressive jackpots and in-game promotion tools, and provides a casino platform and game-studio solutions for operators and partners. High 5 Games serves regulated casinos and online operators with both B2B integrations and player-facing social/real-money experiences.

📋 Description

• Shape the technical vision and grow into owning the architecture of a cloud platform built on hundreds of Java microservices • Learn the production platform deeply during the first 90 days while embedded with the teams that built it • Take ownership of the architecture domain by domain, starting with the data and transaction layer, then service architecture and the cloud platform • Own the platform's architecture end to end by the end of the first year and set its direction for the years ahead • Design systems, review code and schemas, set engineering standards, and lead the engineering and technology teams • Explain technology strategy and trade-offs to executives, business partners, and regulators • Own microservices architecture, including service boundaries, APIs, data ownership, and inter-service communication • Design high-volume, low-latency, real-time transaction processing with strong consistency and idempotency guarantees • Define patterns for distributed transactions, retries, and failure recovery • Lead architecture reviews and maintain architecture decision records across hundreds of services • Identify and reduce architectural debt; evolve legacy services without disrupting live traffic • Set Java engineering standards, including frameworks, libraries, build tooling, coding practices, and JVM tuning • Own database strategy across relational, NoSQL, caching, and streaming platforms • Diagnose and resolve JVM, network, and data-layer performance bottlenecks • Guide cloud architecture covering containers, Kubernetes, managed data services, networking, and infrastructure as code • Set SLOs, observability standards, and incident response practices • Drive scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, and cloud cost efficiency • Ensure security, data protection, and auditability meet gaming regulatory and payment requirements • Build, lead, and mentor engineering and technology teams and raise hiring standards • Translate business goals into technology roadmaps and project plans • Manage technical vendors and third-party platforms • Evaluate new technology and tools • Communicate technology strategy and risk to the CEO, executives, and partners

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years as an architect of large distributed systems • Expert-level Java (Java 17+), with deep knowledge of Spring Boot / Spring Cloud, concurrency, and JVM performance tuning and garbage collection • Proven track record designing and operating a microservices estate of 100+ services in production • Hands-on experience with systems handling millions of real-time transactions per day, with measurable latency and uptime targets • Deep database expertise: relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle) including query tuning, indexing, sharding, and replication, plus NoSQL and caching (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis) • Event-driven architecture with Kafka or a comparable streaming platform • Production experience on AWS or GCP, with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar) • Strong grasp of distributed-systems fundamentals: consistency models, idempotency, partitioning, backpressure, and failure modes • Experience with API design (REST, gRPC), API gateways, and service mesh concepts • Observability and reliability practice: Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog or similar; SLOs and incident management • Experience leading and growing engineering teams, and evaluating and interviewing technical candidates • Clear communicator with executives, peers, and individual contributors • Background in gaming, iGaming, sweepstakes/social casino, sports betting, fintech, or payments (preferred) • Experience with wallet, ledger, or payment systems where every transaction must reconcile (preferred) • Familiarity with gaming regulatory, PCI DSS, or SOC 2 compliance requirements (preferred) • Led a migration or re-platforming of a monolith or legacy services to microservices with no downtime (preferred) • Experience with reactive or non-blocking Java (WebFlux, Vert.x, Netty) for high-throughput services (preferred) • Cloud cost optimization (FinOps) at scale (preferred) • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage • 401(k) and any match • Paid time off and holidays • Other programs