High 5 Games

Backend Engineer

• Shape the technical vision and grow into owning the architecture of a cloud platform built on hundreds of Java microservices
• Learn the production platform deeply during the first 90 days while embedded with the teams that built it
• Take ownership of the architecture domain by domain, starting with the data and transaction layer, then service architecture and the cloud platform
• Own the platform's architecture end to end and set its direction for the years ahead
• Design systems, review code and schemas, set engineering standards, and lead the engineering and technology teams
• Explain technology strategy and trade-offs to executives, business partners, and regulators
• Own service boundaries, APIs, data ownership, and inter-service communication
• Design high-volume, low-latency, real-time transaction processing with strong consistency and idempotency guarantees
• Define patterns for distributed transactions, retries, and failure recovery
• Lead architecture reviews and maintain architecture decision records across hundreds of services
• Identify and reduce architectural debt; plan legacy-service evolution without disrupting live traffic
• Set Java engineering standards, including frameworks, libraries, build tooling, coding practices, and JVM tuning
• Own database strategy across relational, NoSQL, caching, and streaming platforms
• Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks across the JVM, network, and data layer
• Guide cloud architecture, including containers, Kubernetes, managed data services, networking, and infrastructure as code
• Set SLOs, observability standards, 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
• Build, lead, and mentor engineering and technology teams; raise the hiring bar
• Translate business goals into a technology roadmap and project plans
• Manage technical vendors and third-party platforms
• Evaluate new technology and tools
• Communicate technology strategy and risk to the CEO, executives, and partners

Director of Technology – Chief Architect