Software Architect
Pin-Up Global is seeking a pragmatic technical leader who can combine architectural vision with hands-on engineering reality. The right person is comfortable designing complex systems, reviewing implementation details, working with regulated requirements, and helping teams make practical technical decisions. This role is ideal for someone who has built or architected platforms where correctness, scalability, auditability, and compliance are critical. Experience in iGaming is highly valuable, especially with game platforms, RGS, casino integrations, wallet systems, provider integrations, and certification processes.
This is an exciting and challenging job in a fast-growing business group, offering the opportunity to be part of a multicultural team of top professionals in Development, Architecture, Management, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Finance and more. A great working atmosphere with passionate experts and leaders, sharing a friendly culture and a success-driven mindset is guaranteed.
- Define the target architecture for iGaming game backend services, game frontend integration, provider integrations, remote game server capabilities, and certification-related tooling.
- Design reusable architectural patterns for game lifecycle management, round state, bet placement, settlement, cancellation, rollback, reconciliation, audit logging, and player dispute investigation.
- Establish technical standards for building crash games, slots, multipliers, mini-games, and other iGaming products.
- Guide the architecture of wallet integrations, provider APIs, operator integrations, game launch flows, session management, authentication, transaction processing, idempotency, retry logic, and reconciliation.
- Create scalable integration patterns that reduce one-off custom development and enable repeatable onboarding of new providers, operators, and jurisdictions.
- Work closely with game developers, backend engineers, frontend engineers, QA, DevOps, product managers, compliance teams, security teams, and external certification stakeholders.
- Ensure that game and platform architecture supports certification requirements such as GLI-19 and other applicable regulatory or laboratory standards.
- Define technical approaches for RNG integration, game outcome traceability, round replay, RTP reporting, math model validation, build traceability, and evidence collection.
- Review solution designs and critical code paths for correctness, scalability, auditability, security, and maintainability.
- Create reference implementations, technical guidelines, architecture decision records, integration templates, and engineering standards.
- Support CI/CD, release governance, versioning, environment management, and certification-friendly deployment processes.
- Improve observability across the platform, including logs, metrics, traces, audit events, transaction monitoring, reconciliation dashboards, and alerting.
- Identify architectural risks, technical debt, compliance gaps, and scalability bottlenecks, and propose practical remediation plans.
- Mentor engineers and technical leads, raising the overall architectural maturity of the teams.
- Strong experience as a Software Architect, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or similar senior technical role (required).
- Practical experience in the iGaming, online casino, gambling platform, game provider, RGS, fintech, payments, or other regulated transactional domain (required).
- Strong backend architecture experience with C#/.NET (required).
- Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript-based frontend or game client integration (required).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, API design, event-driven architecture, high-throughput services, and transactional consistency (required).
- Experience designing systems that process financial or wallet-related transactions, including debit, credit, rollback, retries, idempotency, reconciliation, and auditability (required).
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, or similar (required).
- Experience with caching, queues, message brokers, or streaming technologies such as Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Azure Service Bus, or similar (required).
- Strong knowledge of security, authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, and secure API design (required).
- Experience with observability practices, including structured logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and incident investigation (required).
- Experience defining architecture standards, technical documentation, reference implementations, and development guidelines (required).
- Ability to work hands-on with engineering teams, review code, challenge technical decisions, and guide implementation (required).
- Experience with iGaming game development, including slots, crash games, instant games, multipliers, or mini-games (nice-to-have).
- Experience with Remote Game Server architecture (nice-to-have).
- Experience with GLI-19, GLI-11, GLI-33, or similar iGaming certification standards (nice-to-have).
- Experience working with certification labs, regulated releases, compliance documentation, or jurisdiction-specific requirements (nice-to-have).
- Knowledge of RNG systems, game math integration, RTP validation, volatility, game simulations, and outcome auditability (nice-to-have).
- Experience designing provider adapter frameworks, operator integrations, aggregator integrations, or wallet integration platforms (nice-to-have).
- Experience with real-time systems such as WebSocket, SignalR, or similar technologies (nice-to-have).
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP (nice-to-have).
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, infrastructure as code, and modern CI/CD pipelines (nice-to-have).
- Experience creating tooling for simulations, certification evidence export, replay, reconciliation, or automated compliance checks (nice-to-have).
- Beautiful offices in Warsaw, Limassol, Yerevan or work remotely or on-site with comfort.
- Modern corporate equipment based on macOS or Windows and additional equipment are provided.
- Paid vacations, sick leave, personal events days, days off.
- Corporate health insurance program for your well-being.
- Referral program enjoy cooperation with your colleagues and get the bonus.
- Educational programs: regular internal training sessions, compensation for external education, attendance of specialized global conferences.
- Rewards program for mentoring and coaching colleagues.
- Free internal English courses.
- In-house Travel Service.
- Multiple internal activities: online platform for employees with quests, gamification, presents and news, RedCore clubs for movie / book / pets lovers, special office days dedicated to holidays.
- Company events, team buildings.
PIN-UP Global is an international holding company that develops technologies, B2B solutions and products for the iGaming industry. Headquartered in Warsaw, the group brings together businesses spanning product development, technology and marketing services for online gaming. It supports a portfolio of companies and brands operating across multiple markets. PIN-UP Global focuses on building advanced technology and products for the gambling sector.
