Tech Director (Vietnamese Candidate) - Based in Ho Chi Minh city

We are not looking for a manager who oversees engineers. We are looking for a technical leader who is respected by engineers someone who can go deep when it matters, elevate the people around them, and take full ownership of outcomes without needing direction from above.

The right candidate is:

- Extreme ownership takes full responsibility for outcomes in their domain. Does not deflect, does not wait, does not qualify accountability.

- A builder of psychological safety actively creates an environment where people speak up, surface problems early, share mistakes openly, and challenge up the chain without fear.

- Invested in people growth measures personal success partly by how much the people around them improve. Coaching and mentoring are not side tasks; they are leadership outputs.

- Self-directed and proactive identifies problems before they escalate, drives solutions without waiting to be asked.

- Outcome-oriented measures success by what ships, what works, and what improves; not by effort or activity.

- Opinionated but open holds strong technical views, defends them with evidence, and updates them when presented with better information.

- Comfortable with ambiguity operates effectively when the answer is not obvious and the scope is not fully defined.

- A continuous learner actively seeks exposure to new tools, approaches, and ideas; brings relevant insight back to the team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Technical Leadership & Direction

- Define and own the technical roadmap for your domain(s), aligned with group strategy and product goals.

- Make and defend architectural decisions with clear rationale balancing delivery velocity, scalability, compliance, and maintainability.

- Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, system design, security, and operational readiness.

- Actively participate in design and architecture reviews across the broader engineering group.

- Stay current with industry trends, tooling, and emerging technologies bring relevant insights back into the team.

2. People Leadership & Organizational Development

- Lead multiple engineering teams (25+ people), providing clear direction, consistent feedback, and meaningful development opportunities.

- Make people growth a primary responsibility not a nice-to-have.

- Actively invest in the career development of every engineer in your function; track progress, create opportunities, and remove ceiling blockers.

- Build and sustain a psychologically safe environment where engineers feel empowered to raise concerns, challenge decisions, share failures, and propose ideas without fear of judgment or reprisal.

- Own hiring, onboarding, and retention for your engineering function build the team you need to deliver.

- Establish a culture of extreme ownership and accountability: problems in your domain are your problems, regardless of where they originate.

- Identify and develop future technical leads and senior engineers; actively manage succession depth.

- Work across cultural boundaries effectively our teams operate across Vietnam and Europe.

3. Delivery & Execution

- Own the delivery commitments for your domain scope, timeline, quality, and post-release stability.

- Remove blockers at the team and organizational level; escalate when necessary with a proposed resolution.

- Drive measurable improvement in delivery throughput and engineering quality over time.

- Ensure systems under your ownership maintain production-grade operational standards: observability, incident response, SLAs.

4. Cross-functional & Strategic Contribution

- Collaborate with Product, QC, DevOps, and other technical directors to align delivery across the group.

- Contribute to group-level technology strategy, platform evolution, and engineering hiring standards.

- Represent the engineering function credibly with senior business stakeholders translate technical complexity into business terms without losing substance.

- Champion technology adoption including AI-assisted engineering, automation, and modern tooling across your teams.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Non-negotiable

- 510 years of hands-on software development experience at senior, principal, or team lead level backend-heavy, working on complex, distributed, or high-throughput systems.

- Demonstrable RNG gaming domain experience you understand how RNG products are built, certified, and operated.

- 5+ years leading engineering teams, with direct management of 25+ people across multiple teams simultaneously.

- Proven ability to own and drive technical direction end-to-end not just advise, but decide and be accountable for outcomes.

- Extreme ownership mindset no blame-shifting, no bystander behaviour. If it's in your domain, it's yours.

- Demonstrated commitment to growing people: a track record of engineers you've developed who went on to take on greater responsibility.

- Fluent in both Vietnamese and English you will operate in a Vietnamese-speaking team environment while communicating across a global, English-speaking leadership group.

- Based in or willing to relocate to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

2. Strongly Preferred

Experience in real-time, high-concurrency systems (e.g. gaming, trading, or similar domains) system architecture, operational complexity, or product delivery.

Background in B2B or platform engineering integrations, shared services, operator-facing systems.

Familiarity with regulatory frameworks (e.g. MGA, UKGC, or equivalent) and the technical implications of compliance.

Experience working in distributed, multi-office engineering organizations.

Track record of introducing or scaling new engineering practices, tools, or AI-assisted workflows across a team.

3. Technical Depth Expected

- Backend systems design: distributed architecture, event-driven systems, high-availability design, data modeling.

- Platform infrastructure awareness: deployment pipelines, containerization, observability, incident management.

- Security-aware engineering especially in the context of gaming platform integrity and fraud prevention.

- Comfort with modern engineering tooling and willingness to drive adoption.