Game Client Team Lead

About Playnetic

Playnetic is a fast-growing iGaming studio focused on building high-quality, engaging casino games for global markets. Our mission is to combine technical excellence with creative innovation to deliver reliable, scalable, and entertaining gaming experiences.

Our engineering culture is built on ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. We work within an established client framework while continuously evolving our technology stack — including the evolution of our client engine toward a more modern, scalable, and maintainable frontend architecture.

The Role

We are looking for a Game Client Team Lead to lead one of our client-side development teams and ensure the reliable and timely delivery of our games.

This role is primarily focused on technical leadership, team management, and delivery coordination , while remaining hands-on enough to support architectural decisions and complex engineering challenges.

You will lead a team of 6–7 client developers with mixed seniority, mentor their growth, and maintain high engineering standards. You’ll also play a key role in guiding the team through our frontend evolution toward PIXI.js, ensuring delivery continuity and technical stability throughout the transition.

This is a 70% technical / 30% leadership role — ideal for someone who enjoys both coding and developing people.

What You’ll Do

Lead & Deliver

• Lead and manage a client-side development team (6–7 engineers)

• Ensure high-quality and timely delivery of game releases

• Define and track team and individual goals aligned with business and technical objectives

• Drive accountability, ownership, and cross-team collaboration

Technical Ownership

• Provide deep technical expertise and resolve complex engineering challenges

• Maintain and enforce high coding standards and engineering best practices

• Support the ongoing transition from Java-based client engine to PIXI.js/TypeScript

• Contribute hands-on to architecture decisions and critical implementations

• Design and implement reusable engine features and scalable systems

People & Growth

• Mentor and coach developers to support career progression

• Conduct regular 1:1s and performance feedback sessions

• Support hiring, onboarding, and mentoring of new team members

• Continuously improve engineering processes and collaboration models

What You’ll Bring

• 3–5+ years of software development experience

• Strong frontend development background

• Experience mentoring or leading developers (junior-to-mid leadership level preferred)

• Experience within the iGaming industry

• Ability to remain hands-on technically

• Strong English communication skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with PIXI.js

• Strong TypeScript knowledge

• Exposure to Java

• Experience improving engineering processes and delivery workflows

Why You’ll Love Working at Playnetic

• Real ownership over delivery and technical direction

• A leadership role with meaningful technical depth

• Opportunity to shape the evolution toward modern frontend technologies

• Influence over engineering standards, scalability, and reusable systems

• International, collaborative, English-speaking environment

• Growing company with strong product ambition

At Playnetic, you won’t just manage delivery — you’ll shape how we build, scale, and continuously improve our game client technology.

📍 Location

As a global company, we attract and retain top talent by offering flexible working arrangements.

Depending on location, this role may be remote or hybrid. In all cases, we provide an environment that supports collaboration, autonomy, and flexibility, enabling our teams to perform at their best.

This role will be fully remote initially, with the potential to transition to a hybrid setup as our office hubs are established in Bulgaria, Hungary, or Poland .

🎮 Ready to level up your development career at Playnetic?
Apply now and help us build the next generation of world-class casino games.