Senior Real-Time Game Engineer — Unity/C#

Bellota Labs; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Bellota Labs in Redwood City, CA is seeking a Senior/Principal Software Engineer to shape the architecture and build the WPTHome platform. You’ll own end‑to‑end features across the Unity/C# client and backend services, delivering real‑time, low‑latency gameplay for a live, real‑money product.

You’ll work with a small, high‑ownership US team to drive performance, reliability, and scale, while shaping patterns and platform direction from day one.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and shipping production software.
• Senior-level ownership of non-trivial systems.
• Strong client and server depth, Unity/C# and backend experience.
• Experience with real-time / low-latency or high-concurrency systems.
• Comfort with testing, observability, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Ship end-to-end features spanning Unity/C# client and backend services.
• Improve client performance and stability for multi‑tabling on desktop and mobile.
• Design and evolve real-time, low‑latency services for gameplay (table state, matchmaking, wallet/ledger).
• Partner on fairness, integrity, and anti‑cheat; ensure accuracy of hand histories and analytics pipelines.
• Work with payments, KYC, and geo‑compliance in a regulated real‑money context.
• Raise the engineering bar with reviews, testing, observability, and on‑call ownership.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Full‑stack experience

C# / Unity

Real‑time / low‑latency

Testing & observability

Job description

Bellota Labs in Redwood City, CA is seeking a Senior/Principal Software Engineer to shape the architecture and build the WPTHome platform. You’ll own end‑to‑end features across the Unity/C# client and backend services, delivering real‑time, low‑latency gameplay for a live, real‑money product.

You’ll work with a small, high‑ownership US team to drive performance, reliability, and scale, while shaping patterns and platform direction from day one.