Job Description
Position Overview
Galaxy Gaming is an innovative, customer-focused brand of omnichannel table games experts. Our team proudly represents world-famous table games and side bets, with over 20 years of iGaming experience, proven-performing technology and solutions, industry-leading service levels, and much more on the horizon. Join the Galaxy! This position is a key member of the executive leadership team. The Vice President of Engineering and Development is a senior hands-on technical leader role responsible for end-to-end architecture of Galaxy’s next-generation platform and game development overseeing system design, engineering excellence, vendor strategy, and technical standards while guiding the organization toward scalable, secure, high-availability distributed systems.
Essential Job Functions:
- Own the architecture for platform services, data model, event schemas, and security model
- Define long-term architectural direction aligned with business/product strategies
- Establish and oversee CI/CD, code review, testing, SLOs, and on-call frameworks and DevOps strategies
- Own vendor evaluation, acceptance, PR review, merge rights, and release gates
- Communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Hire, train, lead and mentor in-house and outsourced engineering teams
- Ensure solutions are aligned, scalable, efficient, and executed with business objectives, strategic plans/budgets, timelines and regulatory requirements reflecting market trends
- Provide technical leadership in the development of game development frameworks, tools, and supporting systems
- Ensure ongoing product adherence to industry compliance standards, particularly within regulated gambling markets
- Implement security best practices, that mitigate technical risk ensuring long term stable and secure development environments
- Drive continuous improvement and operational excellence by fostering innovation, accountability, and high integrity
- Partner with Product, Operations, Compliance, Sales, and Customers
- Work closely with the iGaming business team to ensure that the online (live dealer and RNG) product roadmap is aligned with the Core Product roadmap, and that market-leading omni-channel solutions are being developed
- Other duties as assigned
Required Knowledge/Skills/Job Qualifications: - Expertise in distributed systems, microservices, event-driven patterns
- Strong coding fundamentals
- Experience with high-availability, audit-heavy platforms
- Knowledge of device/edge integration
- Proven track record of successful leadership in a global product management role within the gaming industry
- Extensive experience in managing cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, service, and operations
- Strong understanding of gaming trends, user behaviors, licensing requirements and market dynamics
- Exceptional strategic thinking and ability to align product initiatives with business goals
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Proven ability to coordinate and successfully oversee/manage multiple product development projects
- Ability to understand and use numbers/data to solve real‑world problems, make informed decisions, and make business case recommendations
- Outstanding negotiator with experience successfully negotiating complex deals with international and domestic suppliers and partners
- Proven ability to manage third-party suppliers and partners upon whose deliverables the business depends
- Positive attitude: ability to listen, ask questions, and work as a team
- Excellent documentation skills with a high degree of accuracy
- Must be flexible if needed for regular work outside of normal business hours due to global nature of the business and requirements for travel to attend shows and meet with customers
- Promote and model adherence to company core values, fostering a positive, collaborative and values driven culture. Be COSMIC
- Must have the ability to obtain any gaming licenses that may be required for the role
Education/Experience: - Requires a BA/BS degree in a field that is related to business, computer science, or related field; or any combination of education and industry experience, which would be an equivalent background
- 8–10+ years building distributed systems and shipping production software at scale
- Prior work in highly regulated, audit-heavy environments (gaming strongly preferred)
- Established relationships with key players in the market (operators, regulators, suppliers, partners, media)
Physical Requirements
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time
- Must occasionally move about inside the office to access office machinery
- Constantly use hands/fingers to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator and copy machine
- Occasionally will need to reach with hands and arms and lift up to 10 pounds
- Travel will be required estimated at 10% local, 15% regional, and 5% global
Galaxy Gaming is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, and basis of disability, or any other federal, state, or local protected class.
*Posted positions are not open to third party recruiters and unsolicited resume submissions will be considered free referrals.
Job Tags
Permanent employment, Work at office, Local area, Flexible hours