Head of Engineering

Zexter; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Competitive salary

Job summary

Zexter is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to set the technical direction for a B2B iGaming platform that supports multiple tenants, brands, and markets. You will guide platform architecture, integrations, and the growth of backend and frontend teams, collaborating closely with product and business partners.

You will also drive AI tool adoption across engineering. You will own the platform, design integrations with game providers, payments, identity and compliance, CRM, risk tools, and

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of engineering experience in B2B platforms.
• Proven track record designing multi-tenant systems.
• Experience leading backend and frontend teams.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and security.
• Experience adopting AI or LLM tools in engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve multi-tenant platform architecture, including branding, configuration, roles, limits, billing, and APIs.
• Design integrations with game aggregators, payments, identity, compliance, CRM, bonuses, risk tools, reporting, and back-office systems.
• Maintain scalability, reliability, performance, observability, and security.
• Lead backend and frontend teams—hiring, growth, and technical strategy.
• Set technical direction with product and business teams.
• Establish AI-supported engineering practices and train teams.

Skills

Multi-tenant design

Node.js & TS

NestJS

React/Next.js

REST/GraphQL

WebSockets

Cloud infra

Docker & Kubernetes

AWS/GCP/Azure

AI adoption

English/Russian B2+

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Role overview

Set the technical direction for a B2B iGaming platform designed to support multiple tenants, brands, and markets. This is a hands‑on leadership role spanning platform architecture, integrations, and the growth of backend and frontend teams, in close partnership with product and business colleagues. You will also develop practical ways to adopt AI tools and capabilities across engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve platform architecture for white‑label and turnkey offerings, including tenant isolation, branding, configuration, roles, limits, billing, and APIs.
• Design integrations with game aggregators, payment providers, identity and compliance services, CRM, bonuses, risk and fraud tools, reporting, and back‑office systems.
• Stay involved in engineering while addressing scalability, reliability, performance, observability, and security.
• Lead and develop backend and frontend teams, including hiring, team growth, delivery practices, and technical strategy.
• Set technical direction with product and business teams.
• Establish AI‑supported engineering practices, evaluate tools and workflows, build internal capabilities, and train teams.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of engineering experience and a track record designing B2B multi‑tenant platforms.
• Strong backend experience with Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ.
• Solid knowledge of React or Next.js, REST or GraphQL, and WebSockets.
• Cloud and infrastructure experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS, GCP, or Azure, including reliability, security, and scaling concerns.
• iGaming experience and a record of leading both backend and frontend teams.
• Practical experience adopting AI or large language model tools; English and Russian at B2 level or higher.

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote work and a competitive salary.
• Opportunity to shape platform quality and engineering direction with product and development teams, with room for career growth and modern technical challenges.