[Hiring] Sportsbook Architect @Bet On Talent

Role Description

This role involves system architecture and design for a platform across sportsbook and internal game systems.

• Design and evolve the platform architecture
• Define service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and integration patterns
• Architect scalable backend systems, low-latency APIs, and real-time pipelines (WebSockets, odds feeds, game sessions)
• Design distributed systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and strong consistency for financial transactions
• Evaluate technologies, run POCs, and lead architectural decision-making

Focus on scalability, reliability, and performance:

• Design systems to support high player traffic and major traffic spikes during sporting events
• Implement caching, database optimizations, and performance patterns (Redis, CDN, pub/sub)
• Identify architectural bottlenecks and propose solutions
• Define capacity planning and auto-scaling strategies

Security and operations responsibilities include:

• Define security architecture for authentication, authorization, API protection, and fraud prevention
• Oversee logging, monitoring, observability, and operational readiness
• Design disaster recovery, backup strategies, and failover mechanisms
• Support production troubleshooting and participate in on-call escalations as needed

Provide technical leadership by:

• Aligning architecture across frontend, backend, DevOps, and game teams
• Establishing technical standards, patterns, and best practices
• Leading design reviews, advising teams during development, and guiding CI/CD architecture
• Mentoring engineers and collaborating closely with product and business stakeholders

Documentation and communication tasks include:

• Maintaining clear architectural documentation and decision records (ADRs)
• Communicating architectural trade-offs and recommendations to engineering and leadership

Qualifications

• 8+ years building high-volume, transactional distributed systems
• At least 3+ years operating specifically as a Software Architect or Principal Engineer
• Hands-on, pragmatic, and comfortable in a fast-moving environment
• Deep expertise in Node.js, Java, Go, Python, or similar
• Deep understanding of WebSockets, stateful connections, and message streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub)
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and high-performance caching (Redis)
• Advanced knowledge of AWS or GCP, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/ECS), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Familiarity with microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, and CI/CD best practices

Benefits

• The opportunity to see your bold ideas approved and executed in days, not months
• Work closely with the Co-Founders and build something awesome from scratch
• A culture that rewards ambition, innovation, and collaboration
• Comprehensive benefits package for Malta-based employees, including:
• Private health insurance, wellness allowance, and communication allowance
• Healthy lunch on Wednesdays, Social Fridays, and Summer & Christmas events
• Employee discounts in restaurants and businesses
• Extended second-parent leave policy
• Private parking space