Job Description

About Playtech

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?

We’re looking for a Head of Engineering: Bingo who can combine hands-on backend expertise with strong technical leadership and a business-oriented mindset This is a complex, senior role where you’ll own the technology strategy, delivery, and platform health for Bingo, acting as a senior partner to Product and Commercial to drive business outcomes in a fast‑moving, product‑driven environment.

Your Influential Mission: You Will…

• Own the Bingo technology strategy, ensuring alignment to product vision, commercial goals, and operator outcomes
• Provide hands-on technical leadership staying close enough to the code to guide quality and architecture, particularly on Java backend systems
• Drive architecture and technical decision‑making for complex, scalable platforms
• Act as the primary technology partner to Product and key stakeholders, shaping solutions, influencing decisions, and translating requirements into practical technical solutions
• Lead and develop engineering teams, setting clear direction, standards, and accountability while mentoring senior engineers, helping raise engineering standards and best practices
• Collaborate closely with multiple stakeholders across units, owning delivery predictability, balancing short term delivery with long term technical strategy and platform sustainability
• Play a key role in the transition and evolution of the team structure, supporting continuity and future growth
• Ensure platform scalability, stability, security, and regulatory compliance across all markets
• Manage and reduce technical debt, making trade-offs aligned to business impact and delivery risk
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, tooling, and ways of working to improve efficiency and quality
• Ensure predictable releases, strong production stability, and rapid resolution of incidents and escalations

Qualifications

Components for Success: You…

• Have strong hands‑on Java backend experience in complex, production‑scale environments
• Bring proven experience in technical leadership within senior or lead engineering roles
• Are comfortable balancing coding, architectural thinking, and people leadership
• Can clearly communicate technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders
• Have experience operating in cross‑functional, multi‑team environments
• Demonstrate a pragmatic mindset focused on quality, scalability, and maintainability

You’ll Get Extra Points for…

• Experience owning technology outcomes in a complex, commercially driven environment
• Experience working across multiple business units or domains
• Exposure to high‑performance or high‑availability systems
• A background that combines engineering excellence with strategic thinking
• Experience contributing to hiring, interviewing, and technical evaluation of senior candidates

How Success is Measured

• Delivery against agreed roadmap commitments
• Improved platform stability and reduction in incidents (reduced mean time to recovery: MTTR)
• Strong alignment and feedback from Product and Commercial stakeholders
• Contribution to product performance and commercial outcomes (e.g. engagement, revenue, operator satisfaction)
• Reduction in technical debt and improved system performance
• Reduced cross-team dependencies and delivery bottlenecks
• High team engagement and retention
• Clear, well-understood technical decisions and priorities

Thrive in a culture that values…

• Open collaboration and cross‑team partnerships
• Engineers who stay hands‑on while thinking big picture
• Continuous improvement, learning, and knowledge sharing
• Ownership, accountability, and technical excellence

Additional Information

HOW TO APPLY?

In addition to your CV, please add a brief motivation letter covering your goals, your current experience in senior backend or engineering leadership roles, and your experience working in a corporate or complex technical environment

You can write this in the comment section at the end of the application page (under “your message to the hiring manager”).

ENGINEERING TEAM

You’ll be joining a highly skilled engineering group responsible for building and evolving complex backend systems that support key business initiatives. The team works closely with product and business stakeholders and plays a central role in shaping technical direction and innovation across the organisation.

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.