Responsibilities
- Define and own the performance architecture for Sportsbook applications, with a primary focus on frontend performance and customer-perceived latency.
- Establish and maintain performance-related non-functional requirements (NFRs) across web, mobile, and platform layers.
- Work with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to ensure performance goals are aligned with business objectives and customer experience.
- Drive best practices for frontend performance including (but not limited to): Rendering and hydration strategies, Asset loading, caching, and CDN usage, Web performance metrics (Core Web Vitals, TTFB, LCP, CLS, INP, etc.).
- Collaborate closely with frontend teams to review designs, implementations, and technical decisions from a performance perspective.
- Partner with Solution Architects, Platform Architects, and DevOps to identify performance bottlenecks across: Infrastructure, Networking, Cloud and Kubernetes environments, APIs and backend dependencies
- Contribute to architectural decisions and roadmaps to ensure long-term scalability and performance sustainability.
- Define and promote performance measurement standards, tooling, and dashboards.
- Lead performance analysis, load testing, and capacity planning activities together with relevant teams.
- Participate in incident reviews and root cause analysis, ensuring performance learnings are fed back into architecture and design.
- Act as a performance ambassador across the organization.
- Communicate complex performance topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Mentor teams and help raise the overall performance maturity of the Sportsbook organization.
Requirements
- Strong experience with frontend performance engineering in large-scale, high-traffic systems.
- Solid understanding of: Web architectures and modern frontend frameworks, HTTP, networking fundamentals, caching, and CDNs, Cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) and containerized environments (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Experience designing and reviewing systems with performance, scalability, and resilience in mind.
- Proven experience working in architectural or cross-team technical roles.
- Ability to influence architectural decisions without direct authority.
- Comfortable collaborating with multiple teams and architectural disciplines.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to explain performance trade-offs and recommendations clearly to engineering, product, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working closely with multiple departments in a complex organization.
Nice to Have
- Previous Sportsbook, iGaming, or real-time betting systems experience.
- Experience with high-availability, low-latency platforms operating at scale.
- Hands-on experience with performance tooling, observability, and load-testing frameworks.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — Malta
Additional Information
- Fitness-wellness allowance
- Company mobile phone for private use with 100 GB
- Annual HUF devaluation compensation
- Hybrid model: 3 days in the office & 2 days from home
- Private Health Insurance
- Career development
- Technical and soft-skill training opportunities
- Breakfast, fruits & lunch
- Team building events
