Senior Software Engineer — WPT Home (Full-Stack)

At Bellota Labs, we’re building the next generation of interactive gaming experiences. Our newest product, WPTHome, is redefining how players engage with the World Poker Tour by creating a connected, engaging platform that brings the excitement and community of poker beyond the table. As a fast-growing startup backed by the World Poker Tour, we’re driven by innovation, world-class product development, and a passion for delivering exceptional player experiences.

We’re looking for a Senior/Principal Software Engineer to join our team and play a key role in shaping the architecture, design, and development of WPTHome. You’ll work alongside a talented engineering organization to build scalable systems, solve complex technical challenges, and help define the future of our platform. If you’re excited by the opportunity to build a product from the ground up and make a meaningful impact in a high-growth environment, we’d love to meet you.

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 andthe server).
• Hands-on with C# and/or Unity, ora 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.