Founded in 1999, the company has a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is focused on regulated and regulating markets across its B2B business. By leveraging its proprietary technology, Playtech delivers innovative products and services to ensure a safe, engaging and entertaining gaming experience.
As the gaming industry's leading technology company, it combines business intelligence-driven software, services, content, and platform technology to drive excellence and innovation across the sector. Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtechpeople.com and www.playtech.com
Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Embracing differences and maintaining transparency in our processes is the core of Playtech's overall commitment to responsible business practices.
Ready to level up your career?
Playtech's CASINO UNIT is looking for a hands on Lead Game Developer with strong attention to detail and excellent collaboration skills
Job DescriptionYour influential mission. You will...
- Develop and support frontend and backend parts of casino games using our internal framework (TypeScript + Pixi.js + GSAP)
- Learn and work with an internal game framework built in TypeScript
- Implement animations, UI interactions, and game logic
- Write robust and maintainable code
- Collaborate closely with international teams (Ukraine, Estonia, Israel, Bulgaria)
- Proactively contribute ideas to improve framework and development processes
- Be the main technical go to person for Front End and Backend Development (Java)
- Mentor junior level developers
- Perform code reviews, architectural decisions and server-client estimations
Components for success. You have...
- A formal degree in Software Engineering, Information Technology, or an equivalent field
- 5+ years of commercial experience in frontend and backend game development
- Experience with Pixi.js or other 2D rendering/game engines (Phaser, Three.js, etc.)
- Knowledge of GSAP or similar animation libraries
- Experience in Mobile/Web development projects
- Familiarity with npm, Browserify, Gulp, Lerna
- Experience with Git or other version control systems
- Java development experience
CASINO UNIT
Casino products are the flagship of Playtech’s products, offering an industry-leading selection of online games together with a state-of-the-art platform for seamless integration with our business customers’ websites. We ensure to deliver a thrilling web experience content library that includes a slot, table/card, fixed odds games, and more. Some of the movie and entertainment brands we have collaborated with, include DC, MGM, and NBC Universal. Casino Unit is represented in the following locations: Estonia, Bulgaria, and Ukraine and includes around 300 great employees in total, who build the most extensive games portfolio across the industry.
Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.
Skills Required
- Formal degree in Software Engineering, Information Technology, or an equivalent field
- 5+ years of commercial experience in frontend and backend game development
- Experience with Pixi.js or another 2D rendering or game engine such as Phaser or Three.js
- Knowledge of GSAP or similar animation libraries
- Experience with mobile or web development projects
- Familiarity with npm, Browserify, Gulp, and Lerna
- Experience with Git or another version control system
- Java development experience
What We Do
Founded in 1999 and premium listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, Playtech is a technology leader in the gambling industry with over 7300 employees in 19 countries Playtech is the gambling industry’s leading software and services supplier and partners with many of the world’s leading regulated online, retail and mobile operators, land-based casino groups, government sponsored entities such as lotteries, and new entrants opening operations in newly-regulated markets. Its business intelligence-driven gambling software offering includes casino, live casino, bingo, poker and sports betting. We are the pioneers of Omni-channel gambling which, through Playtech ONE, offers operators and their customers, a seamless, anytime, anywhere experience across any product, any channel (online, mobile, retail) and any device using a single account and single wallet. It provides marketing expertise, sophisticated CRM solutions and other services for operators seeking a full turnkey solution. The company has won numerous awards including the prestigious Gaming Intelligence Game of the Year award 2018 for its Age of the Gods games that includes slots, table games and live casino. Alongside our own cutting-edge gaming studios and content we license some of the world's most popular brands from Hollywood studios including Warner Bros. Consumer Products on behalf of DC Entertainment, Paramount, Fox, NBC Universal, MGM and many more. Playtech Financials operates both on a B2C and B2B basis. Our B2C focused offering is an established and growing online CFDs broker, operating the brand markets.com. Our B2B offering includes the division's proprietary trading platform, CRM and back-office systems, as well as its liquidity technology platform which provides retail brokers with multi-asset execution, prime brokerage services, liquidity and complementary risk management tools. If you are an ambitious, creative thinker and would like to work for us we want to hear from you!
