Engineering Lead (Platform Core)

RubyPlay is a progressive and energetic iGaming development studio that specializes in the design and creation of the most entertaining and engaging slot games, as well as value-add tools for gaming operators. RubyPlay was founded by a group of industry gurus and has evolved into a “Gem” of the iGaming industry!

Our team values are maintaining high quality, following the best & modern practices, and continuous development.

The platform is the heart of our remote gaming system, managing billions of transactions a month, allowing our games to operate across hundreds of casino sites in various jurisdictions.

Here’s How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Leading and mentoring the team (developers and qa) that builds our core backend platform
• Own all technical aspects of the platform, making sure that it is aligned with our business goals and act as a point of contact for architecture and cross-functional initiatives
• Communicating and delivering the technical vision of our projects to the business at a high level and the team at an operational level
• Ensuring the quality of the team’s deliveries, making sure all changes are duly covered by comprehensive testing
• Understanding the broader context of the team, build business domain knowledge on how the platform is used on production and help set the technical roadmap to ensure constant improvements in scalability, efficiency, security, observability and cost effectiveness
• Scoping complex tasks and projects, and break them down into smaller tangible tasks that can be easily taken up by others on the team
• Partner with Product and Project managers to help with decisions around prioritization, execution, work division, planning, goal setting, tech-debt management, etc
• Working with developers to grow their technical, interpersonal and leadership skills and to ensure they have the right challenges and necessary context to use them
• Help make the team stronger by leveraging (or introducing) frameworks and practices around project management, technical decision making, communication practices, etc
• Responsible for recruitment, retention and effectiveness of the team
• Leading incident management efforts on the platform, from investigation to resolution
• Actively contribute to the codebase

What Makes You A Strong Candidate:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 3+ years leading software engineering teams in a high paced environment
• 7+ years of Java experience in development of high volume, high availability backend systems, ideally in a microservices based setup
• Knowledge of cloud computing and experience working with GCP, AWS or Azure
• Experience with both Relational DBs (MySQL is a plus) and NoSQL DBs
• Working knowledge of Spring, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, REST API, dependency management tools, Gitlab CI / Jenkins
• A proper understanding of the skills required in working in a remote environment, leading and communicating with people spread across multiple countries
• Experience in the iGaming industry is highly desirable
• Upper-Intermediate English

Why You’ll Love It Here:

• Talented and open people around
• Budget for personal development
• Well-being Budget
• Annual bonus
• Development days to grow professionally
• Free English classes
• Paid vacation days/paid sick leaves

Interested in becoming a RubyPlayer and making a mark in the iGaming world? Join us!