Lead Backend Engineer

Our backend is a Scala / Play Framework platform built on Akka clustering and MongoDB, running real-time multiplayer casino gameplay, promotions, sweepstakes mechanics, and payment processing across three live products. The Lead Backend Engineer takes ownership of these systems end-to-end: the real-time gameplay layer, the payment and compliance surface, and the backend infrastructure shared across all three products. This is an ownership role, not a maintenance role. The expectation is architectural and operational leadership across a large, mature, multi-product codebase — not just delivery against a backlog. Concretely: this person is expected to decide what the system should do next and why, not only implement what a backlog already specifies — setting technical direction, making calls that trade off correctness, complexity, and risk in ways no ticket fully captures, and being accountable for the health of the system as a whole, not just the tickets closed against it.

• System ownership. Hold end-to-end technical ownership of the backend across all major service domains: game logic, promotions, payments, sweepstakes, player accounts, admin/backoffice, and analytics.