Application Development Engineer

🎯 Join INTRALOT as an Application Development Engineer – innovation and collaboration!

At INTRALOT, we shape the future of gaming through innovation and technology. Our global presence, diverse culture, and dynamic teams set the foundation for a people‑first strategy. We’re looking for an Application Development Engineer
. At INTRALOT Canada we’re transforming the gaming industry with scalable, reliable, and cutting‑edge systems. Here’s your chance to make a difference and grow with a dynamic team that thrives on innovation and collaboration.

As an Application Development Engineer
, you’ll be part of the team behind always‑on, high‑performance gaming platforms. You will help evolve and extend existing deployed services
, ensuring gameplay is seamless, integrations are reliable, and new features connect smoothly across internal and external systems — no matter how intense the action gets. You will operate inside a fully automated, cloud‑native environment
, working closely with Dev Ops and Platform teams, using Git Ops, CI/CD, and observability to safely deliver application and integration changes to production. Every enhancement you build directly improves the gaming experience.

• Design, implement, and enhance application services running in production gaming environments, with a strong focus on stability, backward compatibility, and safe change.
• Extend existing services to support new integrations, features, and data flows without disrupting live operations.

• Develop and maintain service integrations using REST APIs, asynchronous messaging, and event‑driven patterns.
• Work with Kafka‑based pipelines and other messaging systems to support real‑time game events, transactional flows, and operational integrations.
• Ensure integration reliability through proper error handling, retries, and versioning strategies.

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines to build, test, and deploy application code using Git‑based workflows.
• Support controlled rollout strategies (canary, blue/green) in collaboration with Dev Ops teams to minimize risk in live gaming systems.

• Develop and support applications deployed on AWS and Kubernetes‑based platforms.
• Understand how application design impacts scalability, resilience, and performance under peak gaming loads.

• Work with infrastructure and configuration defined as code (Terraform, Helm, Ansible), focusing on application configuration, environment‑specific settings, and integration parameters.
• Collaborate with platform teams to ensure application requirements are correctly reflected in infrastructure and deployment templates.

• Use observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK) to monitor application behavior, integration health, and data flows.
• Participate in incident analysis, root‑cause investigations, and continuous improvement aligned with SRE principles.

• Work closely with Dev Ops, Platform, Security, and Game Development teams to deliver reliable features and integrations.
• Contribute to shared standards around APIs, integrations, deployment practices, and operational readiness.

• A College Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.

• 3+ years in application development, backend engineering, or Dev Ops‑adjacent roles supporting production systems.
• Experience working with existing, live applications rather than greenfield‑only development.

• Strong development experience in Java, Python, or similar backend languages.
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs and integrating with external or internal systems.
• Familiarity with event‑driven or messaging‑based systems (Kafka, queues, streams).
• Comfort working with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and automated deployments.
• Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes from an application developer’s perspective.
• Awareness of IaC and automation tools (Terraform, Helm, Ansible) and…