# Founding Engineer / AI-Native Tech Lead (Backend, iGaming)

We are toogeza, a Ukrainian recruiting company that is focused on hiring talents and building teams for tech startups worldwide. People make a difference in the big game, and we may help to find the right ones. We're currently looking for a Founding Engineer / AI-Native Tech Lead (Backend, iGaming) to work on an iGaming project. Location: Limassol, Cyprus Type: Full-time About the client’s company: iGaming company operating a portfolio of B2C online casino brands across international markets. They’re launching a new initiative focused on developing a sophisticated, multi-layered gamification system designed to enhance player engagement, retention, and the overall gaming experience. We’re looking for a Founding Engineer / AI-Native Tech Lead to take full technical ownership of this initiative - from architecture and system design to hands-on development and delivery. This is an opportunity to build a complex technical solution from the ground up, work directly with the CEO, and potentially grow an engineering team as the project evolves. What You’ll Be Working On The core challenge is to build a scalable gamification layer that integrates with existing third-party casino platforms.

- **Id**: 3969011
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/toogeza-founding-engineer-ai-native-tech-lead-backend-igaming>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Limassol, Cyprus
- **Countries**: CY
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T13:18:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T06:00:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4405
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: iGaming & Gambling

## Company

- **Id**: 7168
- **Name**: Toogeza
- **Domain**: toogeza.tech
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/toogeza>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 38
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.184
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 101
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Nest.JS** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **WebSockets** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Next.js** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Cyprus** — Iso: CY; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T15:20:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 54
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.542
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 101
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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