Head of Game Development

RedCore; España; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacations

Health insurance

Referral program

Education programs

Mentoring rewards

In-house Travel Service

Employee clubs

Job summary

RedCore is seeking a Head of Game Development to build and lead a new game development function focused on producing high-quality casino games. You will own the technical direction, stack, and delivery model for a scalable game studio, ensuring production readiness and regulatory compliance.

This senior role requires 7+ years in game development leadership, experience with casino game mechanics, and collaboration with Game Design, Math, Art, QA and Product teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading a game development team in iGaming or real-time gaming.
• Strong understanding of game development architecture and backend integration.
• Experience with cross-functional teams including design, art, QA and product.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a new game development function to create high-quality casino games.
• Own the technical direction, stack, and delivery model for the game studio.
• Establish repeatable production processes and scalable game development practices.
• Ensure certification, regulatory compliance, testing, and security are embedded in development.

Skills

Game leadership

Real-time systems

Cross-functional leadership

CI/CD processes

Game architecture

Secure development

Game simulation knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s / Master’s in Computer Science or Software Engineering or Management

Job description

RedCore is an international business group that creates technological solutions for digital markets.

Our products and services cover fintech, marketing, e-commerce, customer service, communications, and regulatory technologies.

Powering Growth from the Core — this is the key mission laid under RedCore’s strong foundation. This is how we consistently stay ahead: by evolving and creating scalable solutions, while remaining committed to open and transparent communication with our partners.

We're looking for a Head of Game Development to join our team!

Requirements:

• Proven experience leading a game development team in iGaming. Actual iGaming/game-development experience is a strong requirement.


• Experience with casino games, slots, crash games, or similar real-time gaming products is strongly preferred.


• Demonstrated ability to take technical ownership from architecture through production.


• Experience working with cross-functional teams including Game Design, Game Math, Art, QA and Product.


• Strong understanding of: game development architecture; real-time systems; game state management; APIs and backend integration; automated testing; CI/CD; performance optimization; secure software development.


• Casino-specific knowledge: slots and/or crash game mechanics; RNG and game logic; understanding of how mathematical models are translated into production software. Game simulation and statistical validation.


• Experience with gaming certification and regulatory requirements is highly desirable.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Management.


• 7+ years of professional software/game development experience, with significant experience in senior technical or engineering leadership roles.


• Proven experience as a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, Technical Director, Head of Engineering/Game Development, or equivalent.


• Strong software architecture and game-engineering expertise.

Responsibilities:

The Head of Game Development will build and lead a new game development function responsible for creating high-quality casino games.

The role combines technical leadership, game development, people management, and business process building. The primary objective is to establish a scalable game development capability that can consistently deliver commercially viable, technically robust and regulation-ready games.

The person will own the technical direction of the studio, build the development team and engineering practices, establish the game development technology stack and delivery model, and ensure that games move successfully from concept to production.

The role therefore requires someone who can think beyond individual game delivery and build a repeatable game production business.

1. Build the Game Development Function

• Build the game development team from the ground up.


• Define the required engineering structure, roles and responsibilities.


• Recruit and develop key technical talent.


• Establish engineering standards, development practices, and team processes.


• Create a high-performance engineering culture focused on ownership, quality and delivery.

2. Define Technical Strategy and Architecture

• Define the technical vision and architecture for the game development platform.


• Select and evolve the technology stack, frameworks and development tools.


• Establish reusable game components, engines, libraries, and development frameworks.


• Design the architecture to support multiple game types and future game portfolio growth.


• Ensure that new games can be developed efficiently within a tight timeframe and without unnecessary reinvention.


• Establish standards for performance, scalability, maintainability, and security.

3. Own End-to-End Game Development

• Lead the technical side of the complete game lifecycle: development → QA → owner acceptance → certification →release → maintenance.


• Ensure predictable delivery of game titles.


• Establish development estimates, technical milestones and release criteria.


• Identify technical risks and remove development blockers.


• Establish an efficient process for launching multiple games in parallel.

4. Quality, Reliability and Compliance

• Build automated testing and simulation into the development lifecycle.


• Work with QA, Security, Compliance and relevant teams to ensure games meet required standards.


• Support certification and regulatory requirements for target markets.


• Ensure production games are stable, observable and maintainable.


• Establish appropriate incident, defect and release-management practices.


• Define technical capabilities for collecting game performance and usage data.


• Ensure games expose the necessary telemetry and analytics.


• Establish feedback loops from released games into the development process.

5. Platform and Reusability

• A major responsibility should be to avoid building every game as a standalone project, but as reusable game engine/framework components.


• shared UI/gameplay components;


• configuration-driven mechanics where appropriate;


• common integration patterns;


• automated testing and simulation capabilities;


• common observability and logging;


• common release mechanisms;


• tooling that allows new games to be developed faster over time.


• The target is to progressively reduce the marginal cost and development time of each new game.

6. Build the Future Game Provider Capability

• As the portfolio grows, the Head of Game Development will contribute to transforming the team into a Game Studio / independent Game Provider.


• This includes helping establish:


• integration/API standards;


• external distribution readiness;


• multi-operator / multi-platform support;


• localization and market expansion capabilities;


• certification readiness;


• operational support for externally distributed games;


• technical processes appropriate for a B2B game provider.

An exciting and challenging job in a fast-growing business group, the opportunity to be part of a multicultural team of top professionals in Development, Architecture, Management, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and more

Great working atmosphere with passionate experts and leaders, sharing a friendly culture and a success-driven mindset is guaranteed

Modern corporate equipment based on macOS or Windows, and additional equipment is provided

Benefits and Perks

• Paid vacations, sick leave, personal event days, days off


• Corporate health insurance program for your well-being


• Referral program - enjoy cooperation with your colleagues and get a bonus;


• Educational programs: regular internal training sessions, compensation for external education, attendance at specialized global conferences


• Rewards program for mentoring and coaching colleagues


• 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