Solution Architect

About us

Push Gaming is a dynamic and innovative game development studio specialising in creating top-quality, mobile-optimised online casino games. With a passion for gaming and a commitment to pushing boundaries, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences to players worldwide.

The role

We are looking to hire a Solution Architect to join the team responsible for our gaming platform. The platform is responsible for distributing our games to a global audience and manages millions of transactions per day.

As a Solution Architect, you will play a critical role within the company’s Architecture function, working closely with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimise technical solutions across all of our core systems. Reporting to the Head of Platform Architecture, you will ensure our system architecture is robust, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices. Additionally, you will contribute to the ongoing development of our cloud infrastructure and architecture, helping to maintain our competitive edge in the gaming industry.

Location: remote/hybrid in UK, Poland, Malta or Spain.

Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience.

What you'll be doing:

• Architectural Design: The design and development of technical solutions across multiple critical software systems, including remote game servers, transactional API services, jackpots, and large data environments.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work within cross-functional teams, providing architectural expertise and ensuring all solutions align with business goals and technical requirements.
• Scalability & Performance: Provide architectural expertise to help shape scalable and performant systems. Collaborate with development teams to ensure system designs can handle a high volume of requests, data and transactions while maintaining high performance and reliability.
• Best Practices & Guidelines: Proactively communicate and educate the broader company on architectural best practices and guidelines.
• Secondment & Architectural Support: Contribute to project and team success when seconded to projects and teams across the organisation. Provide architectural insight, guide technical strategies, and ensure the implementation of sound architectural principles that align with business objectives.
• Documentation: Create and maintain detailed architectural documentation to support technical solutions' development, deployment, and maintenance.

A bit about you and your experience:

• Five or more years of experience in a software engineering discipline.
• At least two years of experience as a Software Architect or comparable software architecture experience gained in a non-Solution Architect role.
• Proven ability to guide architectural strategies, ensuring scalability and maintaining software stability within technology and development teams.
• A strong passion for building robust and resilient software systems.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Expertise in creating clear and concise architectural documentation and diagrams.
• Knowledge of best practices, common architectural patterns and scalability strategies.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms and services, such as AWS or GCP.
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar orchestration frameworks.
• Familiarity with relational or NoSQL database systems.
• A solid background in designing high-performance, scalable transactional systems.
• Knowledge of information security and management in cloud-based environments.
• Experience incorporating business continuity and disaster recovery planning into software architecture.
• A proven track record of working closely with development teams to advise on architectural best practices.

Desirable Skills or Experience:

• Experience working with microservice and event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of ISO standards in particular information security such as ISO 27001 and Software quality models such as ISO/IEC 25010.
• Experience in the iGaming industry, with an understanding of its unique technical and regulatory challenges.

Why join us?

It’s a really exciting time to join Push Gaming. We’re expanding our teams to deliver some stellar work.

We are passionate about creating premium quality games and will never compromise on this. The approach we take in building and strengthening our team is no different. We set out to attract and retain high performers and are committed to seeking like-minded individuals who share our vision for excellence and quality.

In turn, we offer all the tools and support to allow individuals to grow and thrive, while achieving both personal and company goals in an environment that’s built around trust, collaboration, transparency and accountability.