Senior Software Engineer — WPT Home (Full-Stack)

Job description

At Bellota Labs, we’re building the next generation of interactive gaming experiences. Our newest product, **WPTHome**, is redefining how players engage with the World Poker Tour by creating a connected, engaging platform that brings the excitement and community of poker beyond the table. As a fast-growing startup backed by the World Poker Tour, we’re driven by innovation, world-class product development, and a passion for delivering exceptional player experiences. We’re 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. You’ll work alongside a talented engineering organization to build scalable systems, solve complex technical challenges, and help define the future of our platform. If you’re excited by the opportunity to build a product from the ground up and make a meaningful impact in a high-growth environment, we’d 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.** We're 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.** You'll 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, you'll shape a product you understand better than most engineers ever could. ### What you'll 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 we're looking for **Must-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 don't 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. - **You're a poker player.**