Remote Principal Mobile Engineer - Casino

Job description

What are we building?

Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sports book, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We’re building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer's interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always acting authentically.

Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space — ready to join us?

What’s the position?

This is an exciting opportunity to join our rapidly growing technology team, responsible for continuous growth and support of an unrivalled betting experience for millions of sports fans everywhere. We’re looking for a Principal Mobile Engineer who will bring their creativity and experience to Hard Rock Bet to help us build software with a spark of magic. This is a role that works closely with Product Management, Design, QA, and Backend Engineering to deliver a full-featured mobile app.

The candidate should have a strong track record developing React Native apps, as well as experience with iOS and/or Android apps, preferably with a background in sports book, gaming, or a related industry.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead the Frontend technical direction of the Casino Technology unit, owning architectural decisions within the domain while ensuring alignment with the broader mobile platform.

• Partner with peer Principal Engineers in Core and Sports book units and the Technical Director for Mobile to define, evolve, and uphold shared engineering standards, patterns, and conventions.

• Own the architecture and evolution of Casino-domain features within a high-performance React Native application for iOS and Android, serving tens of thousands of daily users across multiple product variants and regulatory jurisdictions.

• Develop & improve a high-performance mobile application in React Native for iOS and Android, serving tens of thousands of daily users.

• Drive multi-quarter technical initiatives — legacy system migration, platform modernization, design system adoption, and build infrastructure improvements — collaborating across units to coordinate execution.

• Mentor and develop senior and staff engineers through architectural guidance, code review culture, and hands-on pairing on complex problems.

• Partner with Product Management, Design, QA, and Backend Engineering to shape roadmaps, inform feasibility, and make build-vs-buy-vs-migrate decisions for the Casino domain.

• Evaluate and integrate AI-assisted development tools and workflows to improve team productivity, code quality, and developer experience.

• Navigate the challenges of working in a highly regulated industry, ensuring compliance and stability while minimizing the architectural cost of jurisdiction-specific requirements.

• Serve as the escalation point for complex technical problems within the Casino unit — leading troubleshooting efforts, identifying root causes quickly, and turning incidents into systemic improvements.

• Champion comprehensive observability — analytics, error reporting, and performance monitoring — and use data to drive architectural and product decisions.

• Contribute to cross-unit technical forums, representing Casino engineering priorities and collaborating on platform-wide decisions.

• Employ state-of-the-art technologies and strategies to optimize content delivery, application performance, and developer productivity.

• Cultivate a positive engineering culture that values quality, pragmatism, and continuous improvement.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a technical leader who raises the engineering bar within their unit — someone who identifies systemic problems before they escalate, makes sound architectural decisions, and multiplies the output of the engineers around them. The ideal candidate isn't just interested in what we're building right now, but wants to understand where we're…