Head of Frontend Development (iGaming)

Team: IT

Location: Ireland

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Own the overall frontend architecture strategy for existing B2C digital platforms, ensuring scalability, security, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead the development of a new, scalable B2B platform frontend from the ground up using modern technologies and engineering practices.
• Manage, mentor, and inspire a distributed frontend engineering organization of 20–25 developers, including team leads and senior engineers.
• Establish frontend standards, architectural guidelines, coding practices, and quality processes through effective reviews and technical leadership.
• Drive optimization initiatives to ensure high performance, low latency, and reliable user experiences across high-traffic applications.
• Champion the adoption of AI-powered tools and innovative approaches to improve engineering efficiency and product development.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, backend, and DevOps teams to deliver seamless, real-time customer experiences.
• Build a culture of accountability, psychological safety, knowledge sharing, and continuous professional growth across the engineering organization.
• Ensure frontend systems are designed for efficient deployment and scaling within modern cloud environments.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading frontend engineering teams, ideally managing distributed teams of 20+ engineers through team leads and senior developers.
• Strong technical expertise in JavaScript, React, and modern frontend development practices.
• Experience designing and optimizing high-performance frontend applications handling large traffic volumes and real-time data updates.
• Strong understanding of cloud-based frontend infrastructure, particularly AWS services such as CloudFront, S3, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience making architectural decisions, defining engineering standards, and driving technical excellence across teams.
• Familiarity with SvelteKit is highly desirable.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across product, design, backend, and infrastructure teams.
• Strong leadership, communication, mentoring, and organizational skills with experience working in remote, multicultural environments.
• Experience in the iGaming, casino, entertainment, or other high-scale consumer-facing industries is a strong advantage.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to balance technical vision, business priorities, and team development.

Benefits

• Fully remote position with the flexibility to work from anywhere in Europe.
• Opportunity to lead frontend strategy for large-scale B2C products and a new B2B platform.
• High level of ownership and influence over architecture, engineering practices, and team culture.
• Collaboration with a global, distributed team of technology professionals.
• 28 days of paid time off plus public holidays.
• Comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including private health insurance, wellness allowance, and communication allowance.
• Regular social events and team activities.
• Employee discounts with selected restaurants and businesses.
• Extended second-parent leave policy.
• Private parking space where applicable.
• Fast-paced environment focused on innovation, learning, and meaningful technical challenges.