Chief Technology Officer (Social Casino Gaming)

Classic Spins is a social casino mobile gaming studio with a 20-game portfolio played by users around the world. Our games span slot machines, collection mechanics, tournaments, battle passes, VIP systems, and live-ops events. We're a remote-first studio with leadership in the United States and a global team across the Americas and Asia.

We move fast. We value execution, ownership, and consistency. If you enjoy leading engineering at scale and shipping mobile games in a production-focused environment, you'll fit right in.

Learn more at ClassicSpins.com.

What are you working on?

• Genres: Casino
• Platforms: Mobile, Android, iOS

Team size and structure?

20

For which tasks (responsibilities)?

We're hiring a Chief Technology Officer to lead engineering across our 20-game social casino portfolio, set the technical roadmap, and scale our development organization. This is a player-coach role: you'll own architecture, infrastructure, and team leadership while staying close enough to the code to make sharp technical decisions.

You'll report directly to the CEO, with a strong partnership with the COO on product, live-ops, and portfolio strategy. You'll lead a team of 8 engineers and 2 QA engineers based in Vietnam, with room to grow the team on an as-needed basis. You'll own the full stack: Unity (C#) game clients, .NET backend services, live-ops infrastructure, and the data and analytics platforms that support our portfolio.

This is a high-impact role at a fast-growing studio with real revenue, an established portfolio, and meaningful equity on the table.

Working Hours & Time Zones

Our engineering and QA team in Vietnam works roughly 7:00 PM – 9:00 AM PST (their daytime hours). As CTO, you can work US hours or any window that supports the team — what matters is that you create consistent overlap, set a clear communication rhythm, and keep the team in sprint mode.

What You Will Do

• Own the technical roadmap across our 20-game Unity portfolio, including engine strategy, server architecture, and platform infrastructure

• Lead, mentor, and grow our senior engineering and QA team

• Set engineering standards: sprint cadence, code review, CI/CD, branching strategy, secrets management, and release discipline

• Drive release predictability across the portfolio – define what "ready to ship" means and enforce it

• Partner with the CEO and COO on product strategy, live-ops planning, and portfolio prioritization

• Build and scale backend infrastructure for live-ops features: events, sales, tournaments, VIP, loyalty, and collection systems

• Hire and onboard engineers to fill key gaps across client, backend, and data infrastructure

• Establish engineering metrics that surface team health and output without micromanagement

• Stay hands-on in Unity and .NET where it matters most – architecture, production debugging, and critical code review

What kind of professional are we looking for?

• 10+ years of mobile game engineering experience, including 3+ years in a senior technical leadership role (CTO, VP Engineering, Engineering Director, or Lead Engineer at a multi-game studio)

• Direct experience shipping social casino, slots, or live-ops-heavy mobile games – strongly preferred

• Deep hands-on expertise with Unity (C#) for mobile clients: build pipelines, asset bundles, addressables, iOS/Android platform integration, and production debugging

• Strong .NET / C# backend experience, including modern .NET and microservice architecture

• Proven success leading distributed engineering teams across time zones, including offshore teams in Asia and direct working relationships with US-based executive leadership

• Strong opinions on engineering hygiene: branching strategy, code review standards, CI/CD, secrets management, observability, and on-call practice

• A clear point of view on how to measure engineering output on a remote team – commit cadence, PR throughput, ticket velocity, release predictability – without it feeling like surveillance

• Excellent written and verbal English. You will write architectural decisions, technical roadmaps, and team standards regularly.

• Self-starter who thrives without micromanagement, and who sets the same bar for the team

• Bonus: experience with slot math engines, RGS (Remote Game Server) architecture, Unity LiveOps tooling, Firebase / BigQuery / GameAnalytics, or social casino monetization systems (VIP, battle passes, coin stores)

Why do we enjoy working here?

• Competitive base salary, calibrated to location and seniority

• Meaningful equity stake with a four-year vest and one-year cliff – a real co-founder-tier grant for the right person

• Performance-based bonus tied to portfolio releases, revenue milestones, and engineering KPIs

• Flexible schedule and remote-first culture

• Specific compensation discussed in the first conversation