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# Senior Software Engineer — WPT Home (Full-Stack) at Bellota Labs

- **Company:** Bellota Labs
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/bellotalabs/c33b1129-5acb-47b0-8496-ff253e3ad895

## Job description

At Bellota Labs, we’re building the next generation of interactive gaming experiences. Our newest product, WPTHome, is redefining how players engage with the World Poker Tour by creating a connected, engaging platform that brings the excitement and community of poker beyond the table. As a fast-growing startup backed by the World Poker Tour, we’re driven by innovation, world-class product development, and a passion for delivering exceptional player experiences. We’re looking for a Senior/Principal Software Engineer to join our team and play a key role in shaping the architecture, design, and development of WPTHome. You’ll work alongside a talented engineering organization to build scalable systems, solve complex technical challenges, and help define the future of our platform. If you’re excited by the opportunity to build a product from the ground up and make a meaningful impact in a high-growth environment, we’d love to meet you.

## Why this role is worth your time

- Real product, real stakes, real players. ClubWPT Gold is a live, real-money (sweepstakes) poker + casino platform under the WPT brand — not a prototype. Your code ships to players multi-tabling for real prizes.
- Genuinely hard engineering. Real-time table state, multi-tabling performance, client perf budgets across desktop (Electron) and mobile, provably-fair gameplay, and an event pipeline doing live hand analytics. This is netcode and low-latency systems work, not CRUD.
- Greenfield leverage. We're mid-way through decoupling our platform into clean, independently-shippable services and a new back-office — so a senior engineer has room to set patterns, not just fill tickets.
- Small US team, high ownership. You'll be one of a handful of senior full-stack engineers on Home. Scope is wide, decisions are yours to make, and impact is visible from day one.
- Poker DNA welcome. If you play, you'll shape a product you understand better than most engineers ever could.

## What you'll do

- Ship end-to-end features spanning the Unity/C# client and backend game services — from table UX and mini-games to the APIs and real-time state behind them.
- Improve client performance and stability for multi-tabling on desktop and mobile (memory, frame budget, thermals, reconnect/resync).
- Design and evolve real-time, low-latency services for gameplay: table state, matchmaking, tournament flows, wallet/ledger, and event streaming.
- Partner on fairness, integrity, and anti-cheat — RNG correctness, hand-history accuracy, and the analytics pipeline that watches for anomalies.
- Build for a regulated, real-money context: work cleanly alongside payments, KYC, and geo-compliance systems without letting that complexity leak into gameplay.
- Raise the engineering bar: reviews, testing, observability, and on-call for the surfaces you own.

## What we're looking for

Must-haves

- 5+ years building and shipping production software; senior-level ownership of non-trivial systems.
- Real full-stack range: strong in a client stack and in backend services (you don't need both to be Unity/C#, but you must be able to go deep on the client and the server).
- Hands-on with C# and/or Unity, or a track record that makes picking them up fast credible (strong C++/game-client, graphics, or real-time systems background).
- Experience with real-time / low-latency or high-concurrency systems (multiplayer netcode, streaming, matchmaking, trading, or similar).
- Comfort operating what you build: testing, observability, incident response.

Nice-to-haves

- Domain: poker, casino, social-casino, or real-money / iGaming / sweepstakes experience.
- Live-ops / games-as-a-service: shipping to a live audience with feature flags, staged rollouts, and A/B testing.
- Client depth: Unity performance profiling, memory/thermal optimization, or Electron desktop packaging.
- Real-time systems: multiplayer netcode, matchmaking, or state sync at scale.
- Data / eventing: Kafka / Kinesis pipelines; hand-history, telemetry, or analytics work.
- Infra / CD: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jenkins.
- Regulated domain: payments (PSP routing), KYC, geo-compliance, or fraud/integrity systems.
- You're a poker player.

If you are excited to be part of a fast-growing team that is redefining the online gaming experience, we would love to hear from you. Join us at Bellota Labs and help shape the future of gaming innovation!

## About Bellota Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A hybrid game development and publishing studio that partners with world-class brands to build digital experiences players love, with a focus on online poker through its debut title ClubWPT Gold.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no public funding rounds found)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed; CEO is Silvano Cafolla

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Computer Games / Online Gaming
- Target customers: B2B (brand partners) and B2C (players of partnered games); the debut title targets the online poker audience.
- Mission or purpose: “Build fun experiences for popular games” and “build digital experiences that players keep coming back to.”

## Products & Services
- **[ClubWPT Gold]**: A groundbreaking online poker product described as the studio’s flagship. It is a game publishing effort that leverages brand partnerships (e.g., World Poker Tour) to launch with a built-in player base. Type: Game (online poker platform).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total headcount of ~66 employees (LinkedIn, 2026), with 105% year-over-year growth.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners with world-class brands (e.g., WPT Enterprises, Inc.); no external investors publicly named.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (doubled in a year); active hiring across engineering, design, product, and sales; debut title launched to an established player base; team includes veterans from Riot Games, DraftKings, PokerStars, and Skillz.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Small, nimble team**: “No prototypes that collect dust” – everything built launches to real players with real engagement metrics.
- **Built-in audience**: Brand partners bring millions of users before a line of code is written.
- **Industry veteran leadership**: Founders and early hires shipped hits at major studios; culture emphasizes speed, ownership, and minimal process.
- **AI-assisted development**: The team leans heavily into AI tools to move fast and build smarter.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities: Scaling the studio, expanding the ClubWPT Gold player base, and selectively partnering with additional world-class brands to create new digital experiences.
- Future direction: Continuing to revolutionize the online poker/gaming space and building a portfolio of games that are “fun, rewarding, and built to last.”

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Small team. Big ambitions.” Everyone owns their craft, pitches ideas, and has direct impact. Described as a place where builders, not seat-fillers, thrive.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid – team gathers in the downtown Redwood City office at least twice a week for collaboration, playtesting, and game nights; remote the rest of the time.
- **Perks**: Competitive salary, top-tier medical coverage, unlimited PTO, premium equipment budget, frequent catered meals, and an office with a “neighborhood with actual energy” (near Caltrain, restaurants, bars).
- **Engineering culture**: Strong opinions on tools welcomed; stack varies by project; AI-assisted development is encouraged; experienced team with zero dead weight.

## Sources
1. [bellotalabs.com](https://bellotalabs.com/)
2. [jobs.lever.co/bellotalabs](https://jobs.lever.co/bellotalabs)
3. [linkedin.com/company/bellota-labs](https://linkedin.com/company/bellota-labs)
4. [builtin.com/company/bellota-labs](https://builtin.com/company/bellota-labs)
5. [theorg.com/org/bellota-labs](https://theorg.com/org/bellota-labs)

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