At Trivelta, we build the technology that powers modern experiences partnering with online sports betting & casino operators to launch their own fully customized branded, legally compliant iGaming platforms and products that drive engagement, retention, and revenue. Through our proprietary sports-book and casino engine, we enable partners to offer real social interactions, predictive gameplay, and casino entertainment in one unified experience.
The RoleAs a Lead Backend Software Engineer you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining the platform’s core infrastructure. As a technical leader, this individual will be responsible for driving innovation, optimizing system performance, and ensuring the scalability, security, and reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product, security, compliance, and data analytics.
Key Responsibilities- Architect & Develop Backend Systems — Design and implement scalable, high-performance backend solutions, ensuring robust APIs for mobile, web, and third-party integrations.
- Ensure Performance, Security & Compliance — Optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability; implement security best practices; ensure compliance with AML, KYC, data privacy, and state-by-state sweepstakes regulations.
- Manage Data Infrastructure — Build and maintain data pipelines to support analytics, fraud detection, geolocation controls, and regulatory reporting.
- Lead & Mentor — Provide technical leadership, guide engineers in best practices, and foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
- Drive Technical Strategy — Lead architectural discussions, evaluate emerging technologies in gaming/fintech/AI fraud detection, and align solutions with long-term company goals.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally — Partner with product, finance, compliance, and support teams to translate requirements into technical solutions and ensure seamless operations.
- Ensure Operational Resilience — Lead incident response for outages or security events, implement proactive monitoring/alerting systems, and conduct root cause analysis for long-term fixes.
- Proven experience designing, developing, and scaling high-performance backend systems.
- Expert hands-on expertise in Python for backend development, automation, and data processing.
- Skilled in API development, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
- Deep understanding of system performance tuning, security protocols, and regulatory compliance (AML, KYC, data privacy).
- Experience with data pipeline design, analytics integration, and geolocation-based access controls.
- Demonstrated leadership in mentoring engineers and making strategic architectural decisions.
- Excellent collaboration skills across product, finance, compliance, and support functions.
- Hands-on experience with incident management, monitoring systems, and root cause analysis.
- Ownership mindset — You take full responsibility for your systems and decisions, proactively identifying problems before they escalate.
- Clear communicator — You can translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders across product, compliance, and business teams.
- Resilience under pressure — You stay calm and focused during incidents, leading your team through ambiguity without losing sight of priorities.
- Team multiplier — You genuinely invest in the growth of the engineers around you, making the whole team stronger over time.
- Adaptability — You thrive in fast-moving environments where requirements change and you embrace new challenges as opportunities.
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