Patrianna

Who We Are

At Patrianna LTD, we’re building a global social entertainment platform, focusing on innovative sports-oriented skill games for the North American market. With a reach of up to 150 million players worldwide, we combine creativity and technical excellence to lead in the dynamic world of social gaming.

Who We’re Looking For

As the Engineering Manager in Patrianna’s team, you will start by getting deep into the code — not just reviewing it, but actively writing features, debugging issues, and learning the architecture from the inside out. 

For the first 3+ months, your focus will be hands-on development: understanding our systems, our domain, and how our teams deliver software. This is a critical phase to build credibility, context, and technical ownership before taking on broader leadership responsibilities.

This role is perfect for someone who leads by example — someone who believes that great engineering leadership starts with strong engineering. You’ll collaborate with talented engineers and insightful product managers to deliver customer-centric solutions, and over time, you’ll grow and support high-performing teams that do the same.

If you’re an experienced Java engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, thrives in production environments, and is ready to transition into a leadership role while staying technically grounded — let’s talk.

Responsibilities

• Be a hands-on technical leader: actively contribute to the codebase (primarily in Java), lead complex feature development, and guide the team through architectural and engineering challenges.
• Own and drive technical decisions: design scalable, maintainable systems; document architecture, lead discussions and reviews with engineers and stakeholders.
• Balance leadership and execution: split your time between coding, designing systems, mentoring engineers, and ensuring delivery aligns with product goals.
• Supervise and participate in planning, people allocation, delivery expectations, and technical initiatives across teams.
• Drive cross-team initiatives like analytical database setup, infrastructure upgrades, and performance tuning.
• Continuously improve engineering practices: enhance CI/CD pipelines, enforce code quality, streamline development processes, etc.
• Maintain technical excellence: reduce technical debt, promote innovation, and ensure systems are secure, performant, and easy to evolve.
• Foster a healthy team culture: encourage ownership, support professional growth, and ensure open, constructive communication.
• Support hiring and performance management: attract top talent, provide continuous feedback, and lead performance and compensation reviews with fairness and transparency.
• Celebrate wins and navigate challenges: promote team success, handle setbacks constructively, and keep morale high — even in difficult situations.
• Maintain a healthy team culture: support psychological safety, foster knowledge sharing, and celebrate wins.
• Participate in hiring top engineering talent, making sure every new hire strengthens the team’s capability and culture.

Requirements

Must Have

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with deep hands-on expertise in Java and its ecosystem
• Proven system design and architecture skills for scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems
• Strong understanding of JVM internals, memory management, and performance optimization
• Solid experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, including query tuning and indexing strategies
• Deep understanding of messaging systems (Kafka preferred) and asynchronous event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with concurrency, multithreading, and non-blocking I/O in Java
• Hands-on experience with microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and web application security principles
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, containerized deployments, and modern DevOps practices
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and incident response using tools like Grafana, Kibana, Sentry, or DataDog
• Strong code quality standards with experience in driving code reviews, testing practices, and CI/CD
• Track record of leading engineering teams (2+ teams or 15+ engineers), with a balance of technical leadership and people management
• Strong ownership mindset: ability to make and stand by tough decisions, align the team around priorities, and drive delivery
• Clear, confident communicator in English (Upper-intermediate) — both technical and cross-functional communication

Would Be a Plus

• Experience with Ebean, Protobuf, GCP
• Expertise in high-load systems
• iGaming industry experience
• Experience running company-wide technical initiatives or driving engineering strategy
• Passion for mentoring and growing other senior engineers into leadership roles

Our Tech Stack

• Java 25 🔥
• Spring Boot 4 🔥
• Spring 7 🔥
• Google Cloud Platform:
• Kubernetes
• Kafka
• AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
• Spanner
• Ebean ORM
• Flyway
• Redis
• Quartz
• Websockets
• Retool
• Test Containers
• Locust for perf testing
• Jenkins/ArgoCD
• ELK/Sentry/Grafana
• Jira/Confluence/Slack/Bitbucket

We offer

• Modern tech stack
• Fresh, well-maintained codebase featuring high test coverage
• Minimal bureaucracy and fast approval processes
• Ability to work with highly skilled, passionate, and supportive teammates

• Chance to make a global impact by contributing to projects experiencing exponential user growth

   

Other Benefits

• Full Remote Work: Enjoy the flexibility of working remotely from wherever you feel most productive.
• Company Events: Engage in our vibrant company culture through a variety of informal events designed to foster camaraderie and teamwork.
• Continuous Development: Get an opportunity to join a fast-growing business where the sky’s the limit.

Who We Are

At Patrianna LTD, we’re building a global social entertainment platform, focusing on social gaming for the North American market. With a reach of up to 150 million players worldwide, we combine creativity and technical excellence to lead in the dynamic world of social gaming.

Who We’re Looking For

We are seeking an exceptional Lead Java/Fullstack Developer with a profound, product-first mindset. This isn't just a coding role, it's a leadership position where you will be the primary advocate for user experience and workflow excellence within our backoffice system. 

We are looking for someone who:

Drives Vision and Strategy: You don't wait for specs. You proactively analyze internal operations (across compliance, risk, support) to identify systemic friction and inefficiencies. You will set the technical and UX direction for our backoffice solution, ensuring it evolves into a truly intuitive, efficient, and scalable platform for non-technical users.

Champions the Internal User: You are deeply passionate (perhaps even obsessive) about workflow clarity and interface logic. You treat our internal (admin) users with the same care and respect a product designer shows external customers. You are compelled to build tools that people genuinely want to use.

Mentors and Elevates: As a Lead, you’re ready to guide, mentor, and set a high bar for technical quality and UX design for others working on the backoffice system. You take pride in simplifying complexity and enabling your teammates to deliver their best work.

If you thrive on full ownership, are energized by the challenge of solving complex business problems through elegant UX, and are ready to be the driving force behind a mission-critical platform, we want to talk to you. Come and help us define what a world-class backoffice system looks like.

Responsibilities

• Lead Technical and Product Direction: Define the technical architecture and contribute to the product roadmap for the backoffice system, ensuring it meets the strategic needs of internal operations (Compliance, Risk, Support).
• Drive UX/Workflow Excellence: Deeply analyze internal user workflows to proactively identify and eliminate systemic friction, ensuring the backoffice platform is intuitive, efficient, and genuinely enjoyable for non-technical users.
• Mentor and Elevate the Team: Serve as a technical guide and mentor, setting a high bar for engineering quality, clean code, comprehensive testing, and thoughtful UX design across the backoffice development team.
• Full-Stack Feature Development: Design, develop, and evolve robust full-stack features, connecting frontend logic in Retool with scalable, high-performance backend APIs and data layers (Java/Spring Boot).
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with non-technical stakeholders to gather feedback, translate complex business requirements, and deliver impactful, practical technical solutions.
• System Ownership & Reliability: Take end-to-end ownership of the system's reliability, security, and usability, championing best practices and managing technical debt.

• Proactive Challenge: Challenge unclear or inefficient requirements and actively suggest smarter, more elegant, and scalable approaches to solving core business problems.

   

Requirements

Must Have

• 8+ years of production experience with Java and its ecosystem
• Solid Java knowledge with a strong understanding of JVM internals
• Eagerness to work as a full-stack developer, using Retool for GUI and Java for backend (Retool experience not required)
• Excellent system design skills, able to describe, document, and implement scalable architectures
• Strong relational database expertise (preferably PostgreSQL), including query optimization and performance tuning
• Deep understanding of messaging concepts (Kafka or similar)
• Good understanding of concurrency concepts and principles
• Exceptional troubleshooting skills, able to resolve complex production issues effectively
• Strong sense of user experience and workflow design—not just functional correctness, but clarity and usability
• Ability to collaborate with non-technical stakeholders, translating business needs into practical technical solutions
• Demonstrated ownership and initiative, taking responsibility for delivering solutions and driving team success
• Leadership experience, including mentoring, facilitating technical discussions, and fostering collaboration
• Upper-intermediate English proficiency, with clear communication for technical and non-technical audiences

Would Be a Plus

• Experience with ReTool or similar platforms
• Experience in fullstack development, especially in B2B or internal-facing systems
• A keen eye for UI/UX quality — attention to layout, clarity, consistency, and overall ease of use
• Experience with Clickhouse

• Experience in iGaming

   

Our Tech Stack

• Java 24
• Spring Boot 3.5.8
• Google Cloud Platform:
  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
  • Spanner
• Ebean ORM
• Flyway
• Redis
• Quartz
• Websockets
• ReTool
• Test Containers
• Locust for perf testing
• Jenkins/ArgoCD
• ELK/Sentry/Grafana/Pager Duty

• Jira/Confluence/Slack/Bitbucket

   

We offer

• Modern tech stack and clean codebase
• Autonomy to shape features and improve systems
• Minimal bureaucracy and quick decision-making

• A collaborative and passionate team that values high standards

   

Other Benefits

Full Remote Work: Enjoy the flexibility of working remotely from wherever you feel most productive.
Generous Leave Policy: Take advantage of 30 days of paid time off, encompassing both vacation and sick leave, to ensure you can recharge and recover when needed. Take your time on bank holidays as well.
Company Events: Engage in our vibrant company culture through a variety of informal events designed to foster camaraderie and teamwork.
Continuously Development: Get an opportunity to join a fast-growing business where the sky’s the limit.