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Head of Frontend Engineering
Ancient Gaming
WorldwideremotePosted today
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Key highlights
- Role: Head of Frontend Engineering at Ancient Gaming
- Company: Malta-founded (2018), remote-first across 30+ countries, intersection of gaming/entertainment/tech
- Annual all-hands team retreat to an unusual destination (no Slack/async)
- Home office budget tailored to your needs from day one + ongoing support for role growth
Role overview
Ancient Gaming is a Malta-founded (2018) remote-first tech powerhouse building products at the intersection of gaming, entertainment, and technology across 30+ countries. As Head of Frontend Engineering, you will own the technical direction and execution of frontend systems, lead and mentor engineers, and stay hands-on — setting the standard for fast, reliable, scalable, and maintainable frontend experiences. Performance is critical to our products.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop our frontend engineering team, creating a culture of ownership, accountability, and technical excellence.
- Own the frontend technical vision and architecture across our products.
- Stay hands-on and close to the code, especially around critical architecture, performance, and complex technical problems.
- Build and evolve our frontend applications using Qwik and TypeScript.
- Set an exceptionally high bar for performance, responsiveness, stability, and perceived speed.
- Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance delivery speed, simplicity, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
- Take end-to-end ownership of technical initiatives from architecture and implementation through production and continuous improvement.
- Work closely with Product, Design, Backend, and QA to solve problems rather than simply implement requirements.
- Improve our tooling, reusable components, engineering practices, and developer experience so the team can ship faster without sacrificing quality.
- Challenge assumptions and push for simpler and better solutions.
- Evaluate new technologies based on the actual value they can bring to our products and engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical standard of the wider organization.
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of Qwik, TypeScript, modern JavaScript, CSS/SASS, GraphQL, and modern frontend architecture.
- Strong experience building complex, high-traffic frontend applications at scale.
- Deep knowledge of browser performance, rendering, networking, caching, real-time applications, and frontend optimization.
- Experience leading strong frontend engineers while remaining technically hands-on.
- Strong product thinking and an interest in understanding why something is being built, not just how to build it.
- A pragmatic approach to engineering — knowing when to invest in architecture and when a simpler solution is the better decision.
- The ability to thrive in a remote-first environment with strong communication, discipline, and accountability.
Nice to have
- Experience with WebGL technologies such as PixiJS, Babylon.js, Three.js, or similar.
- Experience in iGaming, gaming, betting, casino, or similar high-traffic real-time products.
Benefits
- Flexible work with real freedom and responsibility; build exciting, innovative products from scratch and see the real impact of what you create.
- Work alongside highly skilled people and grow your expertise through genuine autonomy (the kind that means you're trusted).
- Once a year, the team travels together as a group somewhere out of the ordinary and takes a break from Slack and async chats.
- Home office budget tailored to your needs from day one, with continued support as you grow in your role.
Additional details
- Founded in Malta in 2018.
- Global, remote-first team across more than 30 countries.
- Tech powerhouse building products at the intersection of gaming, entertainment, and technology.
- The company thinks fast, takes ownership, and is not afraid to try things that haven't been done before — products are first on the market, built by people who prefer to challenge the status quo rather than follow a trend.