Sportsbook - Performance Architect

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Responsibilities

• ▹Performance Architecture & Strategy: define and own the performance architecture for Sportsbook applications, primarily focused on frontend performance and customer-perceived latency
• ▹Establish and maintain performance-related non-functional requirements (NFRs) across web, mobile and platform layers
• ▹Work with Product, Engineering and Architecture to align performance goals with business objectives and customer experience
• ▹Frontend Performance Excellence: drive best practices including rendering and hydration strategies, asset loading, caching and CDN usage, and web performance metrics (Core Web Vitals, TTFB, LCP, CLS, INP)
• ▹Collaborate closely with frontend teams to review designs, implementations and technical decisions from a performance perspective
• ▹Partner with Solution Architects, Platform Architects and DevOps to identify performance bottlenecks across infrastructure, networking, cloud and Kubernetes environments, and APIs and backend dependencies
• ▹Analysis, Measurement & Improvement: define and promote performance measurement standards, tooling and dashboards
• ▹Lead performance analysis, load testing and capacity planning together with relevant teams
• ▹Participate in incident reviews and root cause analysis, feeding performance learnings back into architecture and design
• ▹Communication & Enablement: act as a performance ambassador across the organization, communicate complex performance topics clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and mentor teams

Requirements

• ▹Strong focus on frontend performance
• ▹Solid understanding of infrastructure, networking and distributed systems

Nice to have

• ▹Previous Sportsbook or high-traffic real-time systems experience

Soft skills

About the company

Betsson Group has more than 2,800 colleagues representing over 75 nationalities across a global network of offices, including 1,500 at its operational headquarters in Malta.