Integrations Tech Lead

We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Integrations Tech Lead to own the technical design, delivery and operational excellence of our integration layer and API ecosystem. This role combines technical leadership, systems architecture and active development: you will drive integration strategy, define standards, mentor engineers and work closely with Product, QA and DevOps to deliver robust, scalable integrations between internal platforms and third-party providers. Key Responsibilities include owning the architecture and technical roadmap for integration services and APIs, ensuring scalability, security, observability and maintainability. You will design, implement and maintain RESTful and event-driven integration patterns, connectors, middleware services and transformation layers to support external suppliers, game providers and internal consumers. You will define and enforce integration standards, API contracts, versioning strategies, authentication/authorisation approaches and data mapping guidelines. Ensuring high availability and resilience of integration services, implementing monitoring, alerting and tracing, and leading incident response for integration-related issues are also part of your responsibilities. You will perform and drive thorough code reviews, promote clean code, testing and automation, and ensure delivery meets security and performance requirements. Collaboration with Product Owners, Business Analysts, QA, DevOps and third-party partners to capture requirements, plan releases and coordinate onboarding of new integrations is essential. Additionally, you will lead and mentor integration engineers, support technical growth, assist with task breakdown, estimation and career development, and maintain clear technical documentation for integration architectures, API specifications, onboarding guides and runbooks.

Proven experience (typically 6+ years) in backend or integration engineering and at least 2–3 years in a technical lead role. Strong expertise building and operating integrations, APIs and middleware using modern technologies (Java, Kotlin, Node.js or similar). Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ or equivalent) and event-driven architectures. Solid understanding of authentication and authorisation protocols (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS) and security best practices for integrations. Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure), CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code principles. Experience with API gateways, rate limiting, schema validation and contract testing. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions. Excellent communication skills; able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Demonstrable sense of ownership, accountability and commitment to quality and operational excellence.