Technical Leader Gaming Platform Integrations

Technical Leader - Gaming Platform Integrations
Lead the integrations backbone powering next-gen gaming experiences.
Gaming Platform Engineering Johannesburg (Hybrid) Negotiable salary

About Our Client
Our client is a leading gaming technology company developing advanced scalable platforms that power immersive gaming experiences. With a focus on innovation performance and reliability they deliver cloud-based solutions used across global markets. The environment values autonomy collaboration and cutting-edge engineering practices offering opportunities to lead impactful projects that shape the future of gaming technology.

The Role: Technical Leader - Gaming Platform Integrations
This role owns the technical direction and architecture of complex platform integrations within a cloud-native gaming environment. Youll remain hands-on while mentoring engineers influencing system design and ensuring high-quality scalable software delivery across multiple teams and products.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of platform integrations across diverse gaming systems

• Define and enforce architectural best practices for APIs microservices and system interoperability

• Develop and maintain high-performance REST APIs using and Express

• Deploy manage and scale services on Azure using Kubernetes and related DevOps tooling

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business goals into robust technical solutions

• Oversee delivery processes code reviews and continuous improvement initiatives

• Resolve complex technical challenges and coach engineers through debugging and optimization

• Ensure systems are observable secure and resilient under heavy load

About You

• 7 years of software engineering experience including 3 years in a technical leadership capacity

• Proven expertise in Express RESTful API design and system integration

• Strong experience with Azure cloud infrastructure Kubernetes and SQL/NoSQL databases

• Solid understanding of microservices CI/CD pipelines automated testing and distributed architectures

• Excellent communication and leadership skills collaborative pragmatic and delivery-focused

• Nice to have: .NET/C# event-driven systems messaging tools (e.g. Service Bus) or experience in gaming/betting environments