Senior Software Engineer – Game Engine

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Playson

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

🎮 Gaming

Gaming

Playson is a leading supplier of online slot games, providing digital entertainment to various jurisdictions worldwide. They are licensed and regulated in numerous countries, including the UK, Italy, and Sweden. Playson offers a wide range of popular slot games like 'Buffalo Power: Hold and Win' and 'Legend of Cleopatra Megaways™', along with promotional tools designed to increase player engagement. Their commitment to compliance and socially responsible gambling is evident through their certifications and licenses. Additionally, Playson strives to enhance player experiences with innovative promotional tools such as Reel of Fortune and Free Spins, aiming to attract new players and boost retention.

📋 Description

• Own, maintain, and evolve Playson’s Game Engine domain • Work on internal frameworks and libraries used by mathematicians to implement game logic and mathematical packages. • Review and validate code written by mathematicians, ensuring quality, correctness, maintainability, and proper usage of internal frameworks. • Contribute to the development and support of game engines used to run mathematical logic within our platform. • Support integrations with external game studios by helping build wrappers and bridges between third-party game implementations and Playson’s platform. • Work with data structures and protocols that connect game logic with frontend and backend systems. • Contribute to RTP monitoring processes, including validation of production transaction data against simulation data and expected mathematical behaviour. • Support and evolve tools used for mathematical review, simulations, data files, monitoring, and alerting. • Implement and maintain round details logic required for regulated markets, ensuring that detailed game round information can be correctly provided to partners and regulators. • Collaborate closely with mathematicians, backend engineers, platform teams, compliance stakeholders, and product representatives. • Participate in code reviews and technical discussions to ensure a high engineering standard across the Game Engine domain. • Investigate issues related to game logic, mathematical validation, monitoring, and engine behaviour. • Participate in minimal on-call responsibilities related to the systems owned by the team, mainly around monitoring, alerts, and domain-specific incidents. • Take ownership of a highly specialised area where quality, accuracy, and attention to detail are essential.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience, ideally in backend, game engine, gaming, gambling, betting, or simulation-heavy environments. • Solid experience with Node.js/TypeScript, or strong expertise in another OOP language such as C++, Java, C#, Go, or Python. • Good understanding of software architecture, code quality, testing, debugging, and maintainability. • Experience reviewing complex code and providing clear technical feedback. • Ability to understand domain-specific logic and work with technical systems where business rules, mathematics, and engineering are closely connected. • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work with complex, non-standard technical challenges. • Experience working with production systems where reliability, accuracy, and correctness are critical. • Understanding of backend systems, APIs, data flows, and service-to-service communication. • Ability to collaborate closely with non-engineering technical experts, especially mathematicians or domain specialists. • Strong ownership mindset and willingness to become a key expert in a narrow but highly important technical domain. • Product-oriented thinking, with an understanding that games are the core product and engineering decisions directly affect delivery, quality, and compliance. • English communication skills sufficient for working in an international environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive salary in EUR, subject to annual performance reviews • Quarterly Bonuses: Benefit from a transparent and systematic quarterly bonus system • Flexible Schedule: We offer a flexible work schedule to accommodate your needs • Remote Work Option: Choose to work remotely, providing greater flexibility and comfort • Medical Insurance: Receive comprehensive medical insurance for both you and a significant other • Financial Support for Life Events: We provide financial support during special life events • Unlimited Paid Vacation: Enjoy unlimited paid vacation leave • Unlimited Paid Sick Leave: Take unlimited paid sick leave whenever necessary • Professional Development: Get reimbursement for professional development courses and training