Hybrid Integrations Tech Lead

at EZ

• Job title: Integrations Tech Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Java, JavaScript, Kafka, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Node.js, RabbitMQ
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Birkirkara, Malta

About the role

• Integrations Tech Lead at Eeze, focusing on integration strategy and API ecosystem architecture. Leading technical teams and ensuring robust integrations with third-party providers.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap for integration services and APIs, ensuring scalability, security, observability and maintainability.
• Design, implement and maintain RESTful and event-driven integration patterns, connectors, middleware services and transformation layers to support external suppliers, game providers and internal consumers.
• Define and enforce integration standards, API contracts, versioning strategies, authentication/authorisation approaches and data mapping guidelines.
• Ensure high availability and resilience of integration services, implement monitoring, alerting and tracing, and lead incident response for integration-related issues.
• Perform and drive thorough code reviews, promote clean code, testing and automation, and ensure delivery meets security and performance requirements.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, QA, DevOps and third-party partners to capture requirements, plan releases and coordinate onboarding of new integrations.
• Lead and mentor integration engineers, support technical growth, assist with task breakdown, estimation and career development.
• Maintain clear technical documentation for integration architectures, API specifications, onboarding guides and runbooks.

Requirements

• Proven experience (typically 6+ years) in backend or integration engineering and at least 2–3 years in a technical lead role.
• Strong expertise building and operating integrations, APIs and middleware using modern technologies (Java, Kotlin, Node.js or similar).
• Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ or equivalent) and event-driven architectures.
• Solid understanding of authentication and authorisation protocols (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS) and security best practices for integrations.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure), CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Experience with API gateways, rate limiting, schema validation and contract testing.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication skills; able to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrable sense of ownership, accountability and commitment to quality and operational excellence.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities