Senior Software Engineer (Game Engine)

Playson is a leading gaming technology company operating in the fast-paced iGaming industry. They create products used across multiple regulated markets combining technology, creativity, and commercial expertise. The role is within a newly forming team owning a specialised and business-critical Game Engine domain, focusing on tools and services for mathematical game logic and compliance.

• Strong software engineering experience in backend, game engine, gaming, gambling, betting, or simulation-heavy environments.
• Solid experience with Node.js/TypeScript or strong expertise in another object-oriented 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 tightly connected business rules, mathematics, and engineering.
• Strong problem-solving skills for complex, non-standard technical challenges.
• Experience 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 experts, especially mathematicians or domain specialists.
• Strong ownership mindset and willingness to become a key expert in a narrow, highly important technical domain.
• Product-oriented thinking recognizing that engineering decisions affect delivery, quality, and compliance.
• English communication skills sufficient for an international environment.

Nice to have:

• Experience or interest in igaming, gambling.
• Knowledge of Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes.

• 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 framework usage.
• Develop and support game engines running mathematical logic within the platform.
• Support integrations with external game studios by building wrappers and bridges.
• Work with data structures and protocols connecting game logic with frontend and backend systems.
• Contribute to RTP monitoring, validating production transaction data against simulation data and expected behaviour.
• Support and evolve tools for mathematical review, simulations, data files, monitoring, and alerting.
• Implement and maintain round details logic for regulated markets.
• Collaborate with mathematicians, backend engineers, platform teams, compliance stakeholders, and product representatives.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions to ensure high engineering standards.
• Investigate issues related to game logic, validation, monitoring, and engine behaviour.
• Participate in minimal on-call responsibilities around monitoring, alerts, and domain-specific incidents.
• Take ownership of a highly specialised area requiring quality, accuracy, and attention to detail.