技术总监兼首席架构师
Director of Technology & Chief Architect
职位描述
High 5 Games 正在招聘一位技术总监，该职位首要的是一个亲自动手的首席架构师。你将塑造技术愿景，并逐步负责一个由数百个 Java 微服务构建的云平台的架构，该平台每天处理数百万次实时交易。
你将加入一个成熟、高流量的平台，该平台已经在生产环境中运行。你将在最初的 90 天里深入学习它，与构建它的团队紧密合作，并逐个领域地接管其架构：从数据和交易层开始，然后是服务架构和云平台。在第一年结束时，你将全面掌控平台的架构，并为未来几年设定方向。
这不是一个只做幻灯片的架构师职位。你将设计系统、审查代码和模式、制定工程标准，并领导建设和运营平台的工程和技术团队。你必须能够向高管、业务合作伙伴和监管机构解释技术战略和权衡。
你将负责的平台
- 数百个微服务，主要使用 Java，在云中运行。
- 每天数百万次实时交易，每笔交易都需关注延迟、一致性以及可审计性。
- 受监管的、与资金相关的社交和彩票游戏工作负载：钱包、购买、游戏结果和促销活动。
- 全天候可用性，覆盖网页和移动端玩家。
职责
架构与系统设计
- 在第一年中，逐个领域地接管微服务架构，之后全面掌控：服务边界、API、数据所有权和跨服务通信。
- 设计支持高吞吐量、低延迟、实时交易处理的系统，具备强一致性和幂等性保证。
- 定义分布式事务模式（如 saga、outbox、事件溯源等），重试机制和故障恢复策略。
- 主导架构评审，并在数百个服务中维护一份持续更新的决策记录（ADRs）。
- 识别并解决架构债务；规划遗留服务的演进，同时不干扰现有流量。
Java 与数据平台
- 制定 Java 工程标准：框架、库、构建工具、编码规范和 JVM 调优。
- 负责关系型数据库、NoSQL、缓存和流处理平台的策略，包括模式设计、分片、复制和容量规划。
- 诊断
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The role
High 5 Games is hiring a Director of Technology who is first and foremost a hands-on chief architect. You will shape the technical vision and grow into owning the architecture of a cloud platform built on hundreds of Java microservices that process millions of real-time transactions every day.
You will join a mature, high-volume platform that is already running in production. You'll spend your first 90 days learning it deeply, embedded with the teams that built it, and take ownership of its architecture domain by domain: starting with the data and transaction layer, then service architecture and the cloud platform. By the end of your first year, you'll own the platform's architecture end to end and set its direction for the years ahead.
This is not a slide-deck architect role. You will design systems, review code and schemas, set engineering standards, and lead the engineering and technology teams that build and run the platform. You must be comfortable explaining technology strategy and trade-offs to executives, business partners, and regulators.
The platform you will own
- Hundreds of microservices, primarily Java, running in the cloud.
- Millions of real-time transactions per day, where latency, consistency, and auditability matter on every one.
- Regulated, money-adjacent workloads for social and sweepstakes casino gaming: wallets, purchases, game outcomes, and promotions.
- 24x7 availability for players across web and mobile.
Responsibilities
Architecture and system design
- Take ownership of the microservices platform's architecture, domain by domain, through the first year, and then own it end to end: service boundaries, APIs, data ownership, and inter-service communication.
- Design for high-volume, low-latency, real-time transaction processing with strong consistency and idempotency guarantees.
- Define patterns for distributed transactions (sagas, outbox, event sourcing where appropriate), retries, and failure recovery.
- Lead architecture reviews and keep a living record of decisions (ADRs) across hundreds of services.
- Identify and pay down architectural debt; plan the evolution of legacy services without disrupting live traffic.
Java and data platforms
- Set Java engineering standards: frameworks, libraries, build tooling, coding practices, and JVM tuning.
- Own the database strategy across relational, NoSQL, caching, and streaming platforms, including schema design, partitioning, replication, and capacity.
- Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks across the JVM, the network, and the data layer.
Cloud, reliability, and operations
- Guide the cloud architecture: containers, Kubernetes, managed data services, networking, and infrastructure as code.
- Set SLOs, observability standards (metrics, tracing, logging), and incident response practices.
- Drive scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, and cloud cost efficiency.
- Ensure security, data protection, and auditability meet gaming regulatory and payment requirements.
Leadership
- Build, lead, and mentor the engineering and technology teams; raise the bar on hiring.
- Translate business goals into a technology roadmap and project plans.
- Manage technical vendors and third-party platforms.
- Evaluate new technology and tools and bring in what moves the platform forward.
- Communicate technology strategy and risk clearly to the CEO, executives, and partners.
Required qualifications
- 12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years as an architect of large distributed systems.
- Expert-level Java (Java 17+), with deep knowledge of Spring Boot / Spring Cloud, concurrency, and JVM performance tuning and garbage collection.
- Proven track record designing and operating a microservices estate of 100+ services in production.
- Hands-on experience with systems handling millions of real-time transactions per day, with measurable latency and uptime targets.
- Deep database expertise: relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle) including query tuning, indexing, sharding, and replication, plus NoSQL and caching (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis).
- Event-driven architecture with Kafka or a comparable streaming platform.
- Production experience on AWS or GCP, with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar).
- Strong grasp of distributed-systems fundamentals: consistency models, idempotency, partitioning, backpressure, and failure modes.
- Experience with API design (REST, gRPC), API gateways, and service mesh concepts.
- Observability and reliability practice: Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog or similar; SLOs and incident management.
- Experience leading and growing engineering teams, and evaluating and interviewing technical candidates.
- Clear communicator with executives, peers, and individual contributors.
Preferred qualifications
- Background in gaming, iGaming, sweepstakes/social casino, sports betting, fintech, or payments.
- Experience with wallet, ledger, or payment systems where every transaction must reconcile.
- Familiarity with gaming regulatory, PCI DSS, or SOC 2 compliance requirements.
- Led a migration or re-platforming of a monolith or legacy services to microservices with no downtime.
- Experience with reactive or non-blocking Java (WebFlux, Vert.x, Netty) for high-throughput services.
- Cloud cost optimization (FinOps) at scale.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Compensation and benefits
The base salary range for this role is [TBD- Negotiable] per year, based on experience and skills.
Benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage; 401(k) and any match; paid time off and holidays; other programs
About High 5 Games
High 5 Games is a leader in casino gaming entertainment, developing for land-based, online, mobile, and social markets. We have created hundreds of games played in 150 countries on six continents, and we are building the most entertaining social casino experience on web and mobile.
Our team includes mathematicians, software engineers, game designers, data scientists, and artists. It is a dynamic, multidisciplinary, high-learning environment. See us at high5games.com.
To apply
Apply through our careers page with your resume and a short description of relevant experience. Links to GitHub projects, architecture write-ups, or talks are welcome.
High 5 Games is an equal opportunity employer. As a US employer, we verify that all employees, regardless of citizenship or national origin, are eligible to work in the United States. Principals only; recruiters, please don't contact us.
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