Description
We are looking for a Performance Architect to join our Sportsbook Technology organization and take end‑to‑end ownership of performance as a first‑class architectural concern across our platform.
This role has a strong focus on frontend performance, while also requiring solid understanding of infrastructure, networking, and distributed systems, enabling close collaboration with other Architects, DevOps, and engineering teams.
The Performance Architect will work across current and future Sportsbook initiatives, ensuring that performance, scalability, and responsiveness are built in by design, not treated as an afterthought. Previous Sportsbook or high‑traffic real‑time systems experience is considered a strong advantage.
The Wow
Much like a rollercoaster, life at Betsson Group is fast-paced, full of twists and turns, and always exciting. With more than 2,800 colleagues representing over 75 nationalities across a global network of offices - including 1,500 at our operational headquarters in Malta - every day brings new challenges and opportunities to grow. It may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you thrive on innovation, enjoy pushing boundaries and want to be part of a diverse, international team, then you’ll fit right in at Betsson.
A taster of what you will be involved with:
Performance Architecture & Strategy
- Define and own the performance architecture for Sportsbook applications, with a primary focus on frontend performance and customer‑perceived latency.
- Establish and maintain performance‑related non‑functional requirements (NFRs) across web, mobile, and platform layers.
- Work with Product, Engineering, and Architecture to ensure performance goals are aligned with business objectives and customer experience.
Frontend Performance Excellence
- Drive best practices for frontend performance including (but not limited to):
- Rendering and hydration strategies
- Asset loading, caching, and CDN usage
- Web performance metrics (Core Web Vitals, TTFB, LCP, CLS, INP, etc.)
- Collaborate closely with frontend teams to review designs, implementations, and technical decisions from a performance perspective.
- Partner with Solution Architects, Platform Architects, and DevOps to identify performance bottlenecks across: Infrastructure, Networking, Cloud and Kubernetes environments, APIs and backend dependencies
- Contribute to architectural decisions and roadmaps to ensure long‑term scalability and performance sustainability.
Analysis, Measurement & Improvement
- Define and promote performance measurement standards, tooling, and dashboards.
- Lead performance analysis, load testing, and capacity planning activities together with relevant teams.
- Participate in incident reviews and root cause analysis, ensuring performance learnings are fed back into architecture and design.
Communication & Enablement
- Act as a performance ambassador across the organization.
- Communicate complex performance topics clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Mentor teams and help raise the overall performance maturity of the Sportsbook organization.
What we are looking for
Technical Skills
- Strong experience with frontend performance engineering in large‑scale, high‑traffic systems.
- Solid understanding of:
- Web architectures and modern frontend frameworks
- HTTP, networking fundamentals, caching, and CDNs
- Cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) and containerized environments (e.g. Kubernetes)
- Experience designing and reviewing systems with performance, scalability, and resilience in mind.
Architectural & Collaboration Skills
- Proven experience working in architectural or cross‑team technical roles.
- Ability to influence architectural decisions without direct authority.
- Comfortable collaborating with multiple teams and architectural disciplines.
Communication
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to explain performance trade‑offs and recommendations clearly to engineering, product, and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Experience working closely with multiple departments in a complex organization.
Nice to have
- Previous Sportsbook, iGaming, or real‑time betting systems experience.
- Experience with high‑availability, low‑latency platforms operating at scale.
- Hands‑on experience with performance tooling, observability, and load‑testing frameworks.
What we offer
- Work on a mission‑critical, real‑time Sportsbook platform operating at significant scale.
- Shape how performance is designed and delivered across both current systems and future initiatives.
- Collaborate with experienced architects and engineering leaders across multiple domains.
- Make a measurable impact on customer experience and platform quality.
Much like riding a rollercoaster, sometimes life at Betsson can be lightning fast with twists and turns but always FUN! Then again, what else would you expect from a business 75% millennial and 1700 strong, spread across 7 offices with 900 based out of our Malta HQ alone! We recognise it may not be for the faint-hearted, but if you’re a go-getter, initiator and adrenaline junkie, always striving to push the boundaries and challenge yourself, then you’ll fit right in.
At Betsson Group we work with a Hybrid Work From Home (WFH) model, giving you the flexibility of working 3 days in the office (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) and 2 days from home.
We offer numerous challenges where your skills will be put to good use! We encourage innovation, independence and celebrate success where you will be part of multi-cultural and diverse company, with people from all over the world.
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