Gaming Architect

Join Betsson Group as a Gaming Architect to define and govern the architecture of scalable backend services for our gaming platform, ensuring performance and compliance in a high-volume environment.

At Betsson, you’ll join a global engineering organisation building high‑scale, real‑time platforms across 40+ digital brands. After more than 60 years in the industry, our products handle large volumes of user activity and complex regulatory requirements — making performance, reliability and modern cloud‑native engineering essential to everything we do. You’ll collaborate with colleagues from 75+ nationalities in a culture built on learning, ownership and teamwork.

• •Backend Architecture and Technical Direction: Define and evolve the target architecture for gaming backend services, ensuring alignment with business strategy, domain boundaries, and the wider platform landscape.
• •Gaming Domain Design: Design solutions across game management, gameplay, player and wallet interactions, provider integration, promotions, responsible gaming, regulatory functions, and operational tooling.
• •Distributed Systems and Integration: Architect APIs, asynchronous events, and real-time messaging flows between gaming services, internal platform domains, data products, and external game providers.
• •Scalability, Reliability, and Performance: Design for high availability, low latency, horizontal scalability, fault isolation, graceful degradation, disaster recovery, and predictable performance under peak gaming loads.
• •Security, Compliance, and Responsible Gaming: Embed security by design, including strong authentication and authorisation, least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, network segmentation, and secure software supply-chain practices.
• •Technical Governance and Delivery Enablement: Lead architecture reviews, document decisions and trade-offs, and maintain reference patterns, standards, and reusable guidance for engineering teams.
• •Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, architects, operations, data, infrastructure, security, compliance, and external suppliers to create shared understanding and alignment.

• •Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN!
• •Hybrid working model
• •Private health insurance
• •Life insurance
• •Wellness allowance
• •Home office set-up allowance
• •24 days annual holiday leave + additional days for public holidays falling on weekends
• •Flexible compensation benefits
• •Remote working from abroad options

• •Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• •Several years of senior software engineering experience, including responsibility for designing complex backend or distributed systems.
• •Strong knowledge of microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, API design, and integration patterns.
• •Hands-on experience with backend technologies such as .NET, Java, or an equivalent modern stack, together with SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• •Experience with messaging and event-streaming technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ, and with container platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• •Experience designing cloud-based architectures; practical knowledge of AWS or an equivalent cloud platform is highly desirable.
• •Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, production operations, incident analysis, and modern DevSecOps practices.
• •Relevant experience in online gaming or another high-volume, transactional, regulated digital industry; familiarity with game-provider, player-account, wallet, responsible-gaming, or regulatory integrations is an advantage.
• •Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, facilitation, and communication skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.