Job description
Title: Game Security Team Lead
Department: Security
Location: Fully remote
About CoinPoker
Welcome to CoinPoker, the innovative crypto-poker platform where advanced blockchain technology meets the thrilling world of online poker. At CoinPoker, we are revolutionizing the poker experience by offering fast, secure, and transparent gameplay. With recent substantial investment, we are poised to take over the online crypto-poker space and are expanding our team to support our growth.
The Opportunity
We are hiring a Team Lead - Game Integrity & Fraud Prevention to lead a team responsible for protecting the fairness, security, and integrity of our online gaming platform. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines people management, operational oversight, and investigative expertise, ensuring fraud, abuse, cheating, and emerging threats are identified, investigated, and resolved to the highest standard while continuously improving detection capabilities and team performance.
We're looking for someone with high integrity, sound judgement, and a naturally investigative mindset who thrives on solving complex problems. You'll be detail-oriented, data-driven, and highly organised, with excellent communication skills and the ability to stay calm under pressure. Above all, you'll be adaptable in a fast-paced environment and genuinely passionate about protecting fair play, customer trust, and the overall integrity of the platform.
Key Responsibilities:
Fraud & Integrity Investigations
Lead Complex Investigations: Supervise and conduct deep-dive investigations into multi-accounting, account sharing, identity abuse, and coordinated abuse networks.
Combat Gaming & Platform Abuse: Detect and mitigate bot activity, automated gameplay, exploitation of game mechanics, match manipulation, and user collusion.
Prevent Financial & Bonus Fraud: Analyze and resolve payment fraud, promotional/bonus abuse, and suspicious behavioral or transactional patterns.
Leverage Advanced Analytics: Utilize gameplay telemetry, device intelligence, behavioral analysis, and internal data tools to trace malicious activity.
Risk Detection & Prevention
Proactive Threat Hunting: Identify emerging fraud trends and recommend data-driven detection rules, monitoring strategies, and risk-scoring methodologies.
Enhance Automation: Collaborate with Data Science and Engineering teams to build, test, and validate automated detection capabilities and risk controls.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Internal Partnership: Work closely with Product, Tech, Support, Compliance, and Legal teams to deliver operational feedback that improves platform integrity and the user experience.
Reporting, Analytics & Process Improvement
Data-Driven Reporting: Produce and present regular insights on fraud trends, operational KPIs, and risk exposure to senior stakeholders.
Drive Operational Excellence: Review investigation workflows, maintain high-quality SOPs, and identify tooling enhancements to automate and streamline analyst workflows.
Role Requirements:
5+ years in Fraud Prevention, Game Integrity, Trust & Safety, Risk Operations, Cybersecurity, Financial Crime, or Investigations.
Knowledge of fraud processes, tools, emulators, VMs, and HUDs. Their application and risk categorisation
Experience in detecting RTAs Bot behaviours.
Building combination logics to identify potential fraud proactively
Knowledge of high-risk device indicators, including rooted devices
Previous experience leading operational teams.
Experience conducting complex behavioural investigations.
Experience working with large datasets and analytical tools.
Experience developing operational processes and documentation
Nice to haveexperience in one or more of the following:
Online multiplayer gaming
Social gaming
Digital platforms
FinTech
Payments
E-commerce fraud
Cybersecurity
Identity verification
Trust & Safety operations
What We Offer:
Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in the blockchain and online gaming industry.
Flexible working hours and the ability to work fully remotely.
A collaborative and inclusive team culture.
Professional development opportunities and career growth within a rapidly evolving company.
Originally posted on Himalayas
Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.