Were looking for a
Senior/Principal Software Engineer to join our team and play a key role in shaping the architecture, design, and development of WPTHome. Youll work alongside a talented engineering organization to build scalable systems, solve complex technical challenges, and help define the future of our platform. If youre excited by the opportunity to build a product from the ground up and make a meaningful impact in a high-growth environment, wed love to meet you.
Why this role is worth your time- Real product, real stakes, real players. ClubWPT Gold is a live, real-money (sweepstakes) poker + casino platform under the WPT brand - not a prototype. Your code ships to players multi-tabling for real prizes.
- Genuinely hard engineering. Real-time table state, multi-tabling performance, client perf budgets across desktop (Electron) and mobile, provably-fair gameplay, and an event pipeline doing live hand analytics. This is netcode and low-latency systems work, not CRUD.
- Greenfield leverage. Were mid-way through decoupling our platform into clean, independently-shippable services and a new back-office - so a senior engineer has room to set patterns, not just fill tickets.
- Small US team, high ownership. Youll be one of a handful of senior full-stack engineers on Home. Scope is wide, decisions are yours to make, and impact is visible from day one.
- Poker DNA welcome. If you play, youll shape a product you understand better than most engineers ever could.
What youll do- Ship end-to-end features spanning the Unity/C# client and backend game services - from table UX and mini-games to the APIs and real-time state behind them.
- Improve client performance and stability for multi-tabling on desktop and mobile (memory, frame budget, thermals, reconnect/resync).
- Design and evolve real-time, low-latency services for gameplay: table state, matchmaking, tournament flows, wallet/ledger, and event streaming.
- Partner on fairness, integrity, and anti-cheat - RNG correctness, hand-history accuracy, and the analytics pipeline that watches for anomalies.
- Build for a regulated, real-money context: work cleanly alongside payments, KYC, and geo-compliance systems without letting that complexity leak into gameplay.
- Raise the engineering bar: reviews, testing, observability, and on-call for the surfaces you own.
What were looking forMust-haves- 5+ years building and shipping production software; senior-level ownership of non-trivial systems.
- Real full-stack range: strong in a client stack and in backend services (you dont need both to be Unity/C#, but you must be able to go deep on the client and the server).
- Hands-on with C# and/or Unity, or a track record that makes picking them up fast credible (strong C++/game-client, graphics, or real-time systems background).
- Experience with real-time / low-latency or high-concurrency systems (multiplayer netcode, streaming, matchmaking, trading, or similar).
- Comfort operating what you build: testing, observability, incident response.
Nice-to-haves- Domain: poker, casino, social-casino, or real-money / iGaming / sweepstakes experience.
- Live-ops / games-as-a-service: shipping to a live audience with feature flags, staged rollouts, and A/B testing.
- Client depth: Unity performance profiling, memory/thermal optimization, or Electron desktop packaging.
- Real-time systems: multiplayer netcode, matchmaking, or state sync at scale.
- Data / eventing: Kafka / Kinesis pipelines; hand-history, telemetry, or analytics work.
- Infra / CD: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins.
- Regulated domain: payments (PSP routing), KYC, geo-compliance, or fraud/integrity systems.
- Youre a poker player.
$225,000 - $275,000 a year
If you are excited to be part of a fast-growing team that is redefining the online gaming experience, we would love to hear from you. Join us at Bellota Labs and help shape the future of gaming innovation!
