Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
On behalf of SciPlay (SciTech Team), SD Solutions is looking for a talented Engineering Technical Lead. We’re looking for someone with a passion for and experience with e-commerce and payments. As the Technical Lead for our Direct-to-Consumer Payment Platform, you’ll own the platform responsible for moving over 100 million in revenue through our DTC web stores across multiple games. You’ll drive the technical vision, run a product team, and own the business outcomes for the platform. The role is a blend of architectural ownership, individual contribution, and people management.
Responsibilities
- Own architectural decisions across the platform, setting direction for stability, scalability, observability, security, and customer trust.
- Increase release confidence using canary deployments and feature flags, and gate releases with error budgets.
- Use event-driven architectures to guarantee idempotent changes and maintain ledger integrity.
- Protect PCI/PII with tokenization, IAM segmentation, and secrets management.
- Guide integration strategies with third-party payment providers and external services, accounting for high uptime via health-based routing and sticky failover.
- Contribute directly to backend and frontend code, setting quality standards by example.
- Mentor and coach a team of 2 full-stack developers, 2 QA analysts, and 1 SDET, fostering technical growth and career development.
- Collaborate with the product to set priorities, focusing on business outcomes, including reducing friction, latency, and chargebacks while increasing trust and satisfaction for our customers.
- Balance IC work with managing workloads, performance, and the development of your team.
Requirements
- Strong in microservice development (C#/.NET preferred), frontend frameworks (React/TS preferred), and cloud engineering/IaC (AWS/Terraform preferred).
- Experience with third-party payment providers like Stripe or Braintree.
- Experience building robust, secure, and observable cloud architectures for e-commerce systems.
- Experience leading through influence, focusing on outcomes over outputs.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow software developers, QA analysts, and SDETs.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to partner across engineering, product, and business teams.
- A customer-first mindset with focus on usability, trust, and measurable business results.
We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to work in a global environment
- Professional growth and development opportunities
About the Company
SciTech is the platform team inside of SciPlay that provides innovative tech solutions to our partner teams, empowering them to create the best game experiences possible for our players. SciPlay is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms, providing highly entertaining free-to-play games that millions of people play every day for their authenticity, engagement, and fun. SciPlay currently offers nine core games, including social casino games Jackpot Party Casino, Gold Fish Casino Slots, Hot Shot Casino, and Quick Hit Slots, and casual games MONOPOLY Slots, Bingo Showdown, 88 Fortunes Slots, Backgammon Live, and Solitaire Pet Adventure, with offices all over the world!