Senior Game Engine Engineer - Remote, High Impact

Playson; España; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote & Flexible Working

Private Medical Insurance

Professional Development Budget

Job summary

Playson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a newly forming team owning the Game Engine domain. You will work on engines, mathematical packages, simulations, and RTP monitoring within a regulated, high-precision context.

You’ll collaborate with mathematicians, backend engineers, platform teams, and product stakeholders to ensure accuracy and reliable game logic. Remote and flexible working options are available, with a focus on international collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience in backend, game engine, gaming, gambling, or simulation-heavy environments.
• Proficient in Node.js/TypeScript or another OOP language such as C++, Java, C#, Go, or Python.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, code quality, testing, debugging, and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and evolve the Game Engine domain.
• Work on internal frameworks and libraries used by mathematicians to implement game logic and mathematical packages.
• Review and validate code written by mathematicians, ensuring quality, correctness, maintainability, and proper usage of internal frameworks.
• Contribute to the development and support of game engines used to run mathematical logic within our platform.
• Support integrations with external game studios by helping build wrappers and bridges between third-party game implementations and Playson’s platform.
• Work with data structures and protocols that connect game logic with frontend and backend systems.
• Contribute to RTP monitoring processes, including validation of production transaction data against simulation data and expected mathematical behaviour.
• Support and evolve tools used for mathematical review, simulations, data files, monitoring, and alerting.
• Implement and maintain round details logic required for regulated markets, ensuring that detailed game round information can be correctly provided to partners and regulators.
• Collaborate closely with mathematicians, backend engineers, platform teams, compliance stakeholders, and product representatives.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions to ensure a high engineering standard across the Game Engine domain.
• Investigate issues related to game logic, mathematical validation, monitoring, and engine behaviour.
• Participate in minimal on-call responsibilities related to the systems owned by the team, mainly around monitoring, alerts, and domain-specific incidents.
• Take ownership of a highly specialised area where quality, accuracy, and attention to detail are essential.

Skills

Backend development

Code review

Ownership mindset

English communication

Domain-specific logic

Collaboration with mathematicians

Tools

Node.js/TypeScript

C++/Java/C#/Go/Python

Job description

Playson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a newly forming team owning the Game Engine domain. You will work on engines, mathematical packages, simulations, and RTP monitoring within a regulated, high-precision context.

You’ll collaborate with mathematicians, backend engineers, platform teams, and product stakeholders to ensure accuracy and reliable game logic. Remote and flexible working options are available, with a focus on international collaboration.