Senior Software Engineer — WPT Home (Full-Stack)

Team: Engineering

Location: Redwood City, CA

Commitment: Full-Time

Workplace Type: hybrid

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.