KingMakers
TechPrincipal Backend Software Engineer
Notable: Listed as on-site but benefits state hybrid (2 days office, 3 remote), working with teams across Africa, Europe, and the UK.
Companies across St. Julian's are hiring for engineering roles — 6 positions are open right now. KingMakers and Comeon Group are the most active hirers.
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KingMakers
TechNotable: Listed as on-site but benefits state hybrid (2 days office, 3 remote), working with teams across Africa, Europe, and the UK.
KingMakers
TechNotable: Africa-focused iGaming company, unusual for Malta's typically European-market-oriented gaming sector.
KingMakers
TechNotable: Africa-focused iGaming company (BetKing, SuperSportBet) with a Malta engineering presence, not the usual European operator.
KingMakers
TechTL;DR: Engineering Manager role at KingMakers, leading the Virtuals vertical on a high-traffic iGaming platform serving African markets. Tech stack centers on C#/.NET, Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka, and React. Requires people management experience, delivery ownership, and architectural credibility in distributed systems. Hybrid in St. Julian's (2 days in-office, 3 remote). Suits experienced engineering leaders from iGaming or similarly high-concurrency production environments.
Comeon Group
TechNotable: Offers up to 40 days per year of work-from-anywhere on top of hybrid arrangement.
Hero Gaming
TechTL;DR: Mid-senior full stack TypeScript developer role at Hero Gaming, an iGaming technology company. Requires 5+ years of experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and SQL, plus the ability to mentor junior developers and lead complex projects. Hybrid in St. Julian's. Suits experienced full stack engineers looking to work on scalable platform products in the gaming space.
St Julian's is the entertainment-and-employment cluster anchored by Spinola Bay and Paceville — home to most of Malta's biggest gaming operators and the densest concentration of bars, restaurants, and serviced apartments on the island.
For candidates targeting engineering on the island, St. Julian's is one of the densest catchments — most of the day-to-day networking and informal job-changing happens within a couple of streets. The flip side: rents in St. Julian's sit at the top of the local market, so factor housing costs into any salary comparison.
Engineering roles are an active hire across multiple Malta sectors — iGaming and fintech account for the bulk of demand, with corporate services, software studios, and hospitality picking up the rest. The cluster effect (most of the larger employers within walking distance of each other in the Sliema–Gżira corridor) means people typically switch companies inside the same skill area without changing neighbourhood.
For a candidate, that compresses the search: a single trip across town can cover three or four interview loops in a week. St. Julian's sits inside that catchment, so most listings on this page draw from the same recruiting pool.
Interview loops on the island are usually compressed — most employers run a screening call, one technical or domain assessment, and a culture-fit conversation, all within 1-2 weeks. Notice periods are typically one month, which makes job-changing relatively painless compared with the UK or DACH market.
Offers usually arrive in writing within 48 hours of the final round. For relocation hires, larger employers will often cover the first six weeks of corporate housing while you find a permanent place.
There are currently 6 open roles matching this search. The most active hirers are KingMakers, Comeon Group, and Hero Gaming. New listings are added as companies post them — bookmark this page if you want to track it.
Salary data isn't available for all listings in this category. Most Malta employers negotiate based on experience and seniority, with iGaming and fintech roles typically paying a premium over regional averages.
4 roles on this page offer remote or hybrid working. In Malta, "remote" usually means remote-from-Malta — MGA and MFSA employers typically require Malta tax residency. Fully borderless remote roles do exist but are rarer; read each listing carefully. Use the work arrangement filter to narrow down to remote-only positions.
Engineering hiring on the island is heaviest in iGaming, fintech, and software, with corporate-services and hospitality picking up the rest. Cross-functional moves are common at the senior boundary, and English is the working language across virtually every team.
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