Sportsbook Architect
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Job Location:
Birkirkara - Malta
Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
8 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Location: Hybrid - Malta or Remote from Europe
What Youll Do
System Architecture & Design
Design and evolve the platform architecture across sportsbook and internal game systems.
Define service boundaries API contracts data models and integration patterns.
Architect scalable backend systems low-latency APIs and real-time pipelines (WebSockets odds feeds game sessions).
Design distributed systems with high availability fault tolerance and strong consistency for financial transactions.
Evaluate technologies run POCs and lead architectural decision-making.
Scalability Reliability & Performance
Design systems to support high player traffic and major traffic spikes during sporting events.
Implement caching database optimizations and performance patterns (Redis CDN pub/sub).
Identify architectural bottlenecks and propose solutions.
Define capacity planning and auto-scaling strategies.
Security & Operations
Define security architecture for authentication authorization API protection and fraud prevention.
Oversee logging monitoring observability and operational readiness.
Design disaster recovery backup strategies and failover mechanisms.
Support production troubleshooting and participate in on-call escalations as needed.
Technical Leadership
Align architecture across frontend backend DevOps and game teams.
Establish technical standards patterns and best practices.
Lead design reviews advise teams during development and guide CI/CD architecture.
Mentor engineers and collaborate closely with product and business stakeholders.
Documentation & Communication
Maintain clear architectural documentation and decision records (ADRs).
Communicate architectural trade-offs and recommendations to engineering and leadership.
What You Bring
8 years building high-volume transactional distributed systems with at least 3 years operating specifically as a Software Architect or Principal Engineer.
Hands-on pragmatic and comfortable in a fast-moving environment. You can translate complex architectural trade-offs into clear terms for both engineers and business stakeholders.
Deep expertise in Java Go Python or similar.
Deep understanding of WebSockets stateful connections and message streaming (Kafka RabbitMQ Pub/Sub).
Relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and high-performance caching (Redis).
Advanced knowledge of AWS or GCP container orchestration (Docker Kubernetes/ECS) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
Microservices REST/GraphQL APIs and CI/CD best practices.
Whats in it for you
The opportunity to see your bold ideas approved and executed in days not months.
Work closely with the Co-Founders and built something awesome from scratch!
A culture that rewards ambition innovation and collaboration.
Comprehensive benefits package for Malta-based employees including:
Private health insurance wellness allowance and communication allowance.
Healthy lunch on Wednesdays Social Fridays and Summer & Christmas events.
Employee discounts in restaurants and businesses.
Extended second-parent leave policy.
Private parking space.
Key Skills
- APIs
- Pegasystems
- Spring
- SOAP
- .NET
- Hybris
- Solution Architecture
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Adobe Experience Manager
- J2EE
- Java
- Oracle
About Company
A rising powerhouse in online gambling and betting weve made our mark in just four yearsand were just getting started. Our success is driven by a team of experts in casino operations marketing and beyond leading innovative projects across casino crypto and game development. More than ... View more
