Caxy
Principal Technical Lead
Chicago, IL · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$200kDetected 121 days ago
ScalaReactCode ReviewNoSQLPostgreSQLCI/CDGraphQLKafkaProduct StrategyLeadershipCommunication
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About the role
- This isn't a role where you sit back and delegate.
- We need someone who has been in the trenches of gaming, sports betting, or trading platforms and understands what it means when downtime costs real money.
- Someone who can look at a complex, interconnected system and immediately see what to improve-without breaking what already works.
Responsibilities
- Run or participate in sprint ceremonies, manage delivery against monthly release targets, and ensure the team consistently meets commitments.
- Mentor and grow team members; build a culture of accountability, craftsmanship, and continuous improvement.
- Architect & Build Serve as the primary system architect: design scalable solutions, make technology decisions, and own the technical roadmap for the platform.
- Deliver Reliably Own release management and quality gates.
- Support the Product Manager's business requirements and make them technically possible-find the path forward, always.
- You'll write code, own the architecture, run releases, and lead a team of 9-11 engineers through monthly release cycles alongside a highly competent and driven product management team.
- You'll partner directly with the Product Manager, Account Manager, and QA/QC team to deliver work that matters-on time, every time.
Requirements
- Required Experience 8+ years in software engineering with progressive technical leadership responsibilities.
- 3+ years leading engineering teams of 5+ people through regular release cycles.
- Gaming, sports betting, or trading platform experience -you've built or maintained systems where uptime is non-negotiable and real money is on the line.
- Track record of meeting critical deadlines in high-stakes, high-visibility environments.
- Required Technical Skills Scala.
- 5+ years of production experience
- 3+ years designing and maintaining event-driven architectures and streaming pipelines.
- 3+ years designing and consuming APIs
- 3+ years for monitoring, logging, and observability.
- Release & Quality Management - hands-on experience managing CI/CD pipelines, staging environments, and production deployments.
Skills
- A mature, established platform-not a greenfield mess.
- Direct partnership with experienced Product, Account, and Operations leadership who respect engineering and understand the work.
- Your expertise will influence our standards, practices, and culture.
- Account Manager - your bridge to the client.
- QA & QC Engineers - your quality partners.
- CTO & COO - your senior leadership.
Compensation
- $150,000 - $200,000 annually THE OPPORTUNITY We're looking for a Principal Technical Lead to step into a high-impact role of one or more of our key clients.
- You'll take over from our CTO, who currently serves as the acting architect and technical lead, and inherit a mature, well-established platform that powers player loyalty, incentive systems, and real-time gaming experiences for millions of users.
- Deep understanding of player loyalty and incentive systems, including how they integrate with broader gaming platforms.
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