Head of Engineering

About the Position

We are seeking a Head of Engineering to lead our technical strategy and architecture for a platform with 200+ microservices, ensuring seamless gaming experiences for millions of users.

About the Company & Product

We are a rapidly growing product company entering the global gaming entertainment market. Our mission is to bring innovative business solutions to the iGaming industry by building cutting-edge technology products. Our core product is a SaaS gaming platform with 200+ microservices that powers a seamless gaming experience for millions of users worldwide. The platform provides a full suite of iGaming solutions, including game management, payments, analytics, CRM, and more.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the technical strategy and architectural vision for a platform consisting of 200+ microservices.
• Make key architectural decisions and ensure their consistent implementation across multiple engineering teams.
• Maintain clear visibility into the platform’s architectural and technical debt, while defining and executing a realistic, prioritized roadmap for addressing it.
• Define and evolve platform-wide engineering standards, including service design, API contracts, data ownership, and inter-service communication patterns.
• Design APIs with a deep understanding of consumer needs, ensuring they effectively support SPA, SSR/Node.js, and Mobile applications.
• Own and champion the platform’s non-functional requirements, including performance, scalability, reliability, security, and compliance.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering standards across the organization, including code quality, testing strategies, code reviews, observability, and release practices.
• Define and govern the architecture governance framework, ensuring architectural proposals are documented, reviewed, approved, and consistently tracked across engineering teams.
• Drive comprehensive platform documentation, including architecture overviews, service catalogs, runbooks, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Continuously improve the developer experience (DevEx) and engineering productivity by optimizing platform tooling, workflows, and development practices.
• Partner closely with DevOps and SRE teams to drive platform reliability, observability, infrastructure roadmap planning, and incident response.
• Align the technical strategy with the product roadmap in collaboration with Delivery Managers and Product leadership, ensuring architectural decisions are driven by business value rather than engineering elegance.
• Represent Engineering in cross-functional leadership discussions and quarterly planning sessions, providing technical direction and long-term platform vision.
• Serve as the final escalation point and decision-maker for architectural disagreements across teams, making informed decisions even without full consensus while clearly communicating the rationale to both engineering and business stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership and enable the growth of the engineering organization, including Architects, Tech Leads, and Senior Backend, Frontend, and QA Engineers.
• Mentor and develop Tech Leads, QA Leads, and Architects by setting clear expectations, defining growth goals, and providing continuous coaching.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition team to hire Senior and Lead-level engineers, continuously raising the technical bar and strengthening engineering excellence across the platform.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Head of Engineering, CTO, Engineering Director, or Senior Engineering Manager in a product company.
• Proven experience leading multi-team engineering organizations of 15+ engineers.
• A strong hands-on engineering background, having previously worked as an Architect, Principal/Staff Engineer, or Senior Tech Lead before transitioning into engineering leadership.
• Comfortable staying close to the codebase, with the ability and willingness to jump into the repository to debug production incidents, build prototypes, or perform critical code reviews when needed.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, including microservices, event-driven systems, and asynchronous messaging.
• Hands-on experience operating and evolving production workloads on Kubernetes in GCP and/or AWS environments.
• Strong commercial experience with Go (our primary technology stack) or another modern statically typed backend language.
• Practical experience building and operating high-scale distributed systems, with a deep understanding of performance optimization, scalability, capacity planning, and observability.
• Strong knowledge of database internals, including indexing strategies, ACID transactions, query execution plans, and CAP theorem / consistency trade-offs.
• Proven experience establishing and evolving engineering standards, technical governance, and architectural best practices across an engineering organization.

We Offer

• Flexible schedule: work from home, the office, or hybrid.
• Extra day off for your birthday: take a break any day within the month.
• Competitive compensation that matches your skills.
• Medical insurance (in Ukraine) and health support.
• 20 paid vacation days + 15 unpaid vacation days.
• 22 sick leave days, including mental health days.
• Gifts and support for life’s key moments (wedding, childbirth, kindergarten).
• Company-provided equipment based on your preferences.

We care about your comfort and help you maintain work-life balance!

What’s Next?

• HR interview
• Technical interview
• Final interview
• Background Check
• If it’s a match – Offer

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