spinhireData Engineer (iGaming)
Builds the warehouse and data pipelines that analytics draws its numbers from: game events, transactions, marketing sources.
Who is this and what does he do?
Event volumes in iGaming are large: every spin, bet and balance change. A Data Engineer (iGaming) collects these streams into a warehouse, keeps the data reliable and consistent, builds data marts and watches pipeline latency, because traffic decisions get made the same day. The stack is standard: Kafka, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake or ClickHouse.
Owns
- Designing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
- Ingesting gaming, payment and marketing events
- Building data marts for analytics
- Data quality and consistency checks
- Optimising warehouse cost and performance
What metrics are they used to evaluate?
- Pipeline latency
- Rate of data quality incidents
- Warehouse cost
- Time to ship a new data mart
What should you be able to do?
Professional skills
- SQL and data modelling
- Python
- Kafka, Airflow, dbt
- Snowflake, BigQuery or ClickHouse
- Docker, Kubernetes
Personal qualities
- Systems thinking
- Ability to find common ground with analysts
- Ownership of the numbers being correct
Tools
Languages: English B1+ (technical).
How much do they pay: salaries by grade
Arbs are indicated in euros per month, without the bonus part. The data is collected on industry jobs and offers reported by candidates; The numbers are a guideline, not a guarantee.
Malta & Cyprus
| Grade | Fork, €/month | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Junior | €2 600 – €3 400 | €3 000 |
| Middle | €4 200 – €5 800 | €5 000 |
| Senior | €6 500 – €8 800 | €7 650 |
| Head / Lead | €9 000 – €13 000 | €11 000 |
Poland, Romania, Baltics
| Grade | Fork, €/month | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Junior | €2 000 – €2 700 | €2 350 |
| Middle | €3 200 – €4 600 | €3 900 |
| Senior | €5 000 – €7 000 | €6 000 |
| Head / Lead | €7 500 – €10 500 | €9 000 |
Remote · Tbilisi, Yerevan, Kyiv
| Grade | Fork, €/month | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Junior | €1 600 – €2 400 | €2 000 |
| Middle | €2 900 – €4 200 | €3 550 |
| Senior | €4 600 – €6 500 | €5 550 |
| Head / Lead | €7 000 – €10 000 | €8 500 |
Bonuses: 10–15% annually.
How to break into the profession
From data engineering in any industry or from backend development. Very little domain knowledge is required.
Working hours: 5/2, often fully remote.
Market Demand: High demand and a shortage of candidates who have handled high-volume event streams.
Where to grow next
Live jobs: Data Engineer (iGaming)
FAQ
Is gambling experience a must?
No. What counts here is the engineering stack; the metric specifics are picked up alongside the analysts.
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