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This role is responsible for translating product requirements and design specifications into scalable, maintainable client-side implementations while ensuring architectural consistency, release stability, and cross-platform continuity across web and mobile environments.\nIn addition to providing technical oversight, this role remains actively involved in hands-on development. The engineer directly implements client-side features, enhances existing platform functionality, and contributes production code across multiple systems, including modern web platforms and legacy client applications. This hands-on involvement ensures that architectural decisions remain grounded in practical implementation while maintaining code quality and performance standards.\nThe position plays a critical role in safeguarding authentication systems, monetization flows, and shared platform infrastructure that directly impact product stability, user experience, and revenue continuity. Acting as a primary technical quality gate for client engineering output, the role ensures high standards for code maintainability, readability, and functional integrity across multiple codebases.\nKey Responsibilities:\nClient Platform Development\nDesign and implement scalable client-side features that enhance product functionality, engagement, and retention.\nTranslate product requirements and design specifications into maintainable and performant code.\nMaintain compatibility across web, Android, and iOS client environments.\nTechnical Leadership & Code Quality\nConduct comprehensive code reviews serving as a primary quality gate for client engineering contributions.\nEnsure code consistency, readability, and adherence to architectural standards across shared platforms.\nProvide guidance and technical oversight to engineers integrating with shared infrastructure.\nPlatform Architecture & System Continuity\nMaintain architectural consistency across existing products including High 5 Casino, Sweepstakes, and WordPress-based systems.\nPreserve continuity between legacy platform implementations and current WordPress-based infrastructure.\nIdentify cross-platform or cross-codebase risks prior to release.\nIn-Game Store & Authentication System Oversight\nValidate updates affecting monetization systems including coin store and sweepstakes flows.\nOversee shared login and registration systems used across multiple products.\nEnsure stability and integrity of authentication and payment-related client integrations.\nRelease Stability & Risk Management\nExecute and manage code lock procedures to ensure release stability.\nPrepare release documentation supporting coordinated deployments.\nIdentify and mitigate regression risks across shared codebases.\nCross-Team Technical Support\nServe as a technical escalation point for architectural or integration questions.\nSupport cross-functional teams integrating with shared platform components.\nProvide technical guidance across client, server, QA, analytics, and product teams.\nTechnical Skills:\nProgramming Languages\nJavaScript / TypeScript- Client-side feature development and platform integrations\nPHP- WordPress platform customization and backend integrations.\nHTML5 / CSS3 / SCSS- Responsive UI implementation and cross-platform web compatibility\nC++ (a plus) - Legacy client application support and maintenance\nFrontend Frameworks & Client Technologies\nReact.js- Modern client application architecture and component-based development\nState Management- Zustand, Redux, Context API, or similar state management patterns\nWeb Build Tools- Webpack, Vite, Babel, npm/yarn package management\nResponsive Web Development - Cross-platform compatibility for desktop and mobile web environments\nAPI Integration & Client-Server Communication\nREST API integration- Client communication with server-side services\nJSON-based APIs- Data serialization and API interaction\nOAuth / Authentication Flows- Secure login and identity management integrations\nWebSockets (a plus)- Real-time client-server communication where applicable\nCloud & Platform Infrastructure\nGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP) - Cloud-hosted services and infrastructure integration including Cloud Functions and Pub/Sub\nFirebase- Authentication, Realtime DB, analytics, messaging, and application monitoring\nCloud-based logging and diagnostics- Monitoring application stability and performance\nCMS & Web Platform Architecture\nWordPress- Custom platform integrations and user authentication workflows\nWordPress REST API- Headless and integrated client architectures\nMySQL / relational database interactionthrough platform APIs\nPayments & Monetization Systems\nIntegration with third-party payment providers and financial services such as:\nPaymentIQ\nBreeze\nBVNK\nSecure purchase flow handling and monetization system validation\nVersion Control & Build Systems\nVersion Control Systems:Git, Bitbucket, Perforce\nCI/CD Pipelines:Jenkins\nBuild & Dependency Management:Gradle, npm\nContainerization: Docker\nRelease coordination and code lock procedures\nMonitoring, Logging & Debugging\nSentry- Client error monitoring and diagnostics\nLogMX- Log analysis and troubleshooting\nFirebase monitoring tools - Crash reporting and application analytics\nGoogle Tag Manager (GTM) - Tag management platform for deploying and managing analytics, marketing, and event tracking scripts without requiring direct code changes.\nDevelopment Workflow & Collaboration\nAgile project management tools: Jira, Confluence\nTeam communication: Slack\nDocumentation and collaboration: Google Drive\nExperience & Skills\nExtensive experience in client-side engineering across web and mobile platforms, using modern and legacy technologies.\nDevelop and maintain client applications using JavaScript, React.js, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, with C++ as a plus, supporting integrations across web, Android, and iOS environments.\nStrong debugging and performance optimization skills for web-based applications, including identifying and resolving client-side bugs, analyzing logs, and diagnosing performance issues using tools such as browser developer tools, Sentry, LogMX, and Firebase monitoring.\nStrong understanding of shared platform architecture and cross-codebase dependency management across multiple interconnected systems.\nExperience coordinating changes across repositories using Git, Bitbucket, and Perforce, integrating with REST APIs, shared authentication systems, and multi-product platforms.\nExperience supporting and evolving platforms built on React.js web applications, WordPress integrations, and cloud services such as Firebase and Google Cloud.\nExpertise in authentication systems, monetization flows, and in-game store functionality.\nImplement and validate secure login and purchase flows using OAuth-based authentication, Firebase Authentication, and REST APIs, integrating with payment platforms such as PaymentIQ, Breeze, and BVNK.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7021,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Gaming","iGaming & Gambling"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-04T06:58:52Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":5,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.193,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":208,"expected_fill_days":40,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-06T05:45:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/high-5-games-senior-client-platform-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/high-5-games-senior-client-platform-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-06T22:59:24Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3810,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1190,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2271359},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2271359"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhigh-5-games-senior-client-platform-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhigh-5-games-senior-client-platform-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhigh-5-games-senior-client-platform-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/high-5-games-senior-client-platform-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhigh-5-games-senior-client-platform-engineer"}]}