Role Summary:
The Senior Client Platform Engineer provides technical leadership across shared client platforms supporting High 5 Casino and Lucky Bits Vegas. This role is responsible for translating product requirements and design specifications into scalable, maintainable client-side implementations while ensuring architectural consistency, release stability, and cross-platform continuity across web and mobile environments.
In addition to providing technical oversight, this role remains actively involved in hands-on development. The engineer directly implements client-side features, enhances existing platform functionality, and contributes production code across multiple systems, including modern web platforms and legacy client applications. This hands-on involvement ensures that architectural decisions remain grounded in practical implementation while maintaining code quality and performance standards.
The position plays a critical role in safeguarding authentication systems, monetization flows, and shared platform infrastructure that directly impact product stability, user experience, and revenue continuity. Acting as a primary technical quality gate for client engineering output, the role ensures high standards for code maintainability, readability, and functional integrity across multiple codebases.
Key Responsibilities:
Client Platform Development
- Design and implement scalable client-side features that enhance product functionality, engagement, and retention.
- Translate product requirements and design specifications into maintainable and performant code.
- Maintain compatibility across web, Android, and iOS client environments.
Technical Leadership & Code Quality
- Conduct comprehensive code reviews serving as a primary quality gate for client engineering contributions.
- Ensure code consistency, readability, and adherence to architectural standards across shared platforms.
- Provide guidance and technical oversight to engineers integrating with shared infrastructure.
Platform Architecture & System Continuity
- Maintain architectural consistency across existing products including High 5 Casino, Sweepstakes, and WordPress-based systems.
- Preserve continuity between legacy platform implementations and current WordPress-based infrastructure.
- Identify cross-platform or cross-codebase risks prior to release.
In-Game Store & Authentication System Oversight
- Validate updates affecting monetization systems including coin store and sweepstakes flows.
- Oversee shared login and registration systems used across multiple products.
- Ensure stability and integrity of authentication and payment-related client integrations.
Release Stability & Risk Management
- Execute and manage code lock procedures to ensure release stability.
- Prepare release documentation supporting coordinated deployments.
- Identify and mitigate regression risks across shared codebases.
Cross-Team Technical Support
- Serve as a technical escalation point for architectural or integration questions.
- Support cross-functional teams integrating with shared platform components.
- Provide technical guidance across client, server, QA, analytics, and product teams.
Technical Skills:
Programming Languages
- JavaScript / TypeScript – Client-side feature development and platform integrations
- PHP – WordPress platform customization and backend integrations.
- HTML5 / CSS3 / SCSS – Responsive UI implementation and cross-platform web compatibility
- C++ (a plus) – Legacy client application support and maintenance
Frontend Frameworks & Client Technologies
- React.js – Modern client application architecture and component-based development
- State Management – Zustand, Redux, Context API, or similar state management patterns
- Web Build Tools – Webpack, Vite, Babel, npm/yarn package management
- Responsive Web Development – Cross-platform compatibility for desktop and mobile web environments
API Integration & Client–Server Communication
- REST API integration – Client communication with server-side services
- JSON-based APIs – Data serialization and API interaction
- OAuth / Authentication Flows – Secure login and identity management integrations
- WebSockets (a plus) – Real-time client-server communication where applicable
Cloud & Platform Infrastructure
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – Cloud-hosted services and infrastructure integration including Cloud Functions and Pub/Sub
- Firebase – Authentication, Realtime DB, analytics, messaging, and application monitoring
- Cloud-based logging and diagnostics – Monitoring application stability and performance
CMS & Web Platform Architecture
- WordPress – Custom platform integrations and user authentication workflows
- WordPress REST API – Headless and integrated client architectures
- MySQL / relational database interaction through platform APIs
Payments & Monetization Systems
- Integration with third-party payment providers and financial services such as:
- PaymentIQ
- Breeze
- BVNK
- Secure purchase flow handling and monetization system validation
Version Control & Build Systems
- Version Control Systems: Git, Bitbucket, Perforce
- CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins
- Build & Dependency Management: Gradle, npm
- Containerization: Docker
- Release coordination and code lock procedures
Monitoring, Logging & Debugging
- Sentry – Client error monitoring and diagnostics
- LogMX – Log analysis and troubleshooting
- Firebase monitoring tools – Crash reporting and application analytics
- Google Tag Manager (GTM) – Tag management platform for deploying and managing analytics, marketing, and event tracking scripts without requiring direct code changes.
Development Workflow & Collaboration
- Agile project management tools: Jira, Confluence
- Team communication: Slack
- Documentation and collaboration: Google Drive
Experience & Skills
- Extensive experience in client-side engineering across web and mobile platforms, using modern and legacy technologies.
- Develop and maintain client applications using JavaScript, React.js, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, with C++ as a plus, supporting integrations across web, Android, and iOS environments.
- Strong debugging and performance optimization skills for web-based applications, including identifying and resolving client-side bugs, analyzing logs, and diagnosing performance issues using tools such as browser developer tools, Sentry, LogMX, and Firebase monitoring.
- Strong understanding of shared platform architecture and cross-codebase dependency management across multiple interconnected systems.
- Experience coordinating changes across repositories using Git, Bitbucket, and Perforce, integrating with REST APIs, shared authentication systems, and multi-product platforms.
- Experience supporting and evolving platforms built on React.js web applications, WordPress integrations, and cloud services such as Firebase and Google Cloud.
- Expertise in authentication systems, monetization flows, and in-game store functionality.
- Implement and validate secure login and purchase flows using OAuth-based authentication, Firebase Authentication, and REST APIs, integrating with payment platforms such as PaymentIQ, Breeze, and BVNK.
