Hi guys! I look at online casinos not as a player anymore, but from a professional point of view — I am a front-end developer and am currently looking for interesting niches to move into. Yesterday I was talking to a former colleague, he went to work in a gambling product and said that the girls there are not just “technicians”, but essentially the engines of the entire system. I was surprised, honestly. I always thought that online casinos are primarily about marketing, visuals, licenses, regulation, and developers just “make it work”. I was wondering — how critical is the role of developers in such projects, especially on the backend, and what skills are important? Has anyone worked or is working inside?
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Interesting discussion. I am more of an infrastructure person, but I often cross paths with gamedev teams that work on slots. I confirm that developers are truly the foundation of the entire system. Without them, no marketing will pull the service through, especially at its peak.
Your interest is more than understandable, especially if you want to move towards stable, loaded and really “live” products. I have been a backend developer for three years now in a company that makes white label platforms for online casinos. I will be honest - if you think that girls are here just “to make it work”, you greatly underestimate the scale. As it is said in https://starofmysore.com/the-role-of-software-developers-in-online-casinos/, an online casino is one of those rare types of products where every millisecond, every byte of memory and every line of code matter. Why? Because here money goes in real time. This is not an online store, where you can put an order in the basket, think about it and pay in a day. Here, every click is either a bet, or a win, or a loss. And the user expects an immediate reaction. The backend must process tens of thousands of operations per second - from authorization to calculating winnings, accruing bonuses, accounting for jackpots and much more. For example, we had a situation when an incorrectly processed transaction “stuck” in the queue, and the user was shown that he had lost, although he had won. The person started complaining in the chat, and only thanks to a well-thought-out logging system and a “replay” of the game session, we were able to quickly restore it. Now imagine if all this had not happened — what reputational and financial damage there would have been. The second thing is security. There is no “trust by default”. Everything here — from cryptography to data integrity verification — must be developed by a person who understands what replay attacks, bypassing front-end logic, interfering with a session, and so on are. Many newbies do not think about this until the first real threat occurs.