Job Description

• A leader in South Africa’s gaming and entertainment industry is seeking an exceptional Technical Leader to join their Gaming Platform Engineering team. This is a hands-on role where you will be pivotal in shaping the technical direction, architecture, and implementation of mission-critical integrations for their core gaming platform using leading-edge technologies.

Responsibilities: 

• Lead the design and implementation of complex integrations within our gaming platform ecosystem.
• Drive technical decision-making on system design, technology choices, and architectural patterns (API design, Microservices, Cloud-Native).
• Provide hands-on technical guidance and mentorship to the engineering team.
• Actively contribute code to critical integration projects.
• Develop robust REST APIs and integration services primarily using Node.js, Express, and JavaScript (ES6+).
• Implement scalable solutions on Azure cloud infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Work with both SQL (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases.
• Troubleshoot complex technical challenges across the full stack.
• Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Lead technical planning, estimation, and delivery of integration projects.
• Champion code quality through code reviews and continuous improvement of engineering practices.

Minimum Requirements:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role.
• Strong expertise in Node.js and Express.js for building enterprise-grade applications.
• Extensive experience with RESTful API development and integration design patterns.
• Proven track record building integrations between multiple systems/third-party services.
• Solid experience with Azure cloud services (App Services, Service Bus, API Management, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes (orchestration, deployment, scaling).
• Database expertise with relational databases (design and optimization).
• Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps, and microservices architecture.

Bonus Skills

• Experience in the gaming/betting industry.
• Familiarity with message queuing/event-driven architectures (e.g., Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with .NET/C#.