Real-Money Skill Gaming app

Senior Development Agency Needed — Real-Money Skill Gaming Platform

Project Overview

We are hiring a development agency, not individual freelancers, to build a real-money skill gaming platform based on a completed SRS, existing UI wireframes, an active GitHub repository, and existing payment/compliance providers.

This platform is a full rebuild from a prior Unity implementation into a custom architecture with:
• a React Native player app
• web dashboards for Admin, Affiliate, and Customer Support
• a server-authoritative real-time game engine
• Plaid Identity / Auth / Transfer
• PayPal integration
• tournament systems, fraud controls, geo restrictions, and support tooling

The platform is designed to support large-scale tournament play, multiple concurrent tournaments, and a target scale of 1M+ users.

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What We Already Have

We are not starting from scratch.

We already have:
• a full Software Requirements Specification (SRS)
• UI wireframes
• a GitHub repository
• Plaid Identity / KYC
• Plaid Transfer
• PayPal

Our SRS already defines the player app, game engine, tournament system, admin dashboard, affiliate dashboard, support dashboard, fraud/anti-cheat, geo-compliance, and financial workflows.

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What We Need

We need an experienced agency that can take our existing SRS, wireframes, repo, and payment stack and turn them into a working MVP quickly.

This is not a design-first project.
This is an execution project.

We are specifically looking for a team that has already built systems involving:
• turn-based card games
• real-time tournament setups
• real-money wallet / payout systems
• KYC / money movement integrations
• admin and operations dashboards

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Required Platform Features

1) Player Mobile App

A React Native app with:
• onboarding and authentication
• tournament hub
• tournament join flow
• wallet UI
• deposit / withdrawal flow
• KYC gating
• real-time leaderboards
• in-game messaging
• prize store
• shareable win screen
• progression, XP, borders, titles, cosmetics

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2) Real-Time Game Engine

A server-authoritative turn-based game engine where the server validates all moves and determines all outcomes.

Must support:
• turn-based 1v1 card gameplay
• timers and penalties
• disconnect handling
• forfeit logic
• replay artifacts
• immutable move logs
• official card rule enforcement
• custom special card behavior

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3) Tournament System

Must support:
• multiple concurrent tournaments
• tournament scheduling and lifecycle
• matchmaking and queues
• leaderboard tracking
• tie-break handling
• payout distribution logic
• prize pool calculation and locking.

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4) Payments, KYC, and Money Movement

You must have prior experience implementing:

Plaid
• Plaid Identity
• Plaid Auth
• Plaid Transfer
• bank linking
• KYC / identity flows
• transfer flows
• account linking via Link

Plaid’s official docs show Identity for user verification, Auth for account/routing verification, and Transfer as an end-to-end funds transfer solution, with Link used to connect accounts before transfers are created.

PayPal
You must also have prior experience integrating PayPal for payment operations in a production environment.

This is mandatory, not optional.

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5) Admin Dashboard

Must include:
• user management
• KYC / device / IP review
• tournament creation and control
• payout calculator
• payout approvals
• leaderboard overrides
• fraud monitoring
• affiliate controls
• support oversight
• audit logs.

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6) Affiliate Dashboard

Must include:
• referral links
• invite codes
• deep-link tracking
• commission rules
• first tournament higher %
• subsequent tournament lower %
• affiliate payouts
• tournament room creation
• funnel analytics
• community tools
• discount code attribution.

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7) Customer Support Dashboard

Must include:
• ticket queue
• in game ticket linked to customer support dashboard
• player lookup
• payment history
• match history
• replay viewer
• refund workflow
• case notes
• escalation to admin.

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8) Compliance / Fraud / Geo Restriction

The system must support:
• 18+ gating
• approved-region enforcement
• KYC address verification
• GPS location
• IP location
• bank region checks
• VPN/proxy detection
• anti-cheat
• bot/script detection
• collusion detection
• multi-account detection.

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Team Requirements

We are looking for an agency with rotating shifts that can work across time zones and keep the project moving continuously.

Your agency must have a team structure that includes at minimum:
• React Native developers
• backend engineers
• real-time / game logic engineers
• frontend web dashboard engineers
• DevOps / deployment support
• QA / testing

We are specifically looking for a team that can move fast because they have existing experience and systems, not because they plan to learn on the job.

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Required Prior Experience

You must have direct prior experience with:
• Plaid Identity
• Plaid Auth
• Plaid Transfer
• PayPal integration
• turn-based card games
• tournament systems
• real-time match infrastructure
• operator/admin dashboards
• wallet / payout flows

If you have not built these types of systems before, you are not the right fit.

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Timeline

We are looking for an agency that can move on an accelerated timeline and work in rotating shifts to deliver quickly.

This means:
• work must happen continuously
• communication must be structured
• milestones must be hit without delays
• your team must already know how to build systems like this

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Budget

The price is firm.
We are not looking for quotes.

If your proposal is based on discovery billing, hourly exploration, or open-ended estimation, it is not a fit.

We are looking for an agency that can review the SRS and respond with:
• whether you can build it
• how your team would execute it
• your timeline 1 month or shorter
• examples of similar work

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What to Include in Your Proposal

Please include:
1. Examples of similar platforms your agency has built
2. Specific examples of:
• Plaid Identity/Auth/Transfer integrations
• PayPal integrations
• turn-based card or tournament systems
3. Your proposed team structure
4. Your development approach
5. Your timeline and milestone plan
6. Confirmation that your team can work rotating shifts
7. Confirmation that you understand the budget is fixed

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Important Note

We are not hiring generalist freelancers.

We are hiring a serious agency that can take:
• an existing SRS
• existing wireframes
• an existing repo
• existing payment infrastructure

and turn it into a working platform fast.

Agencies without relevant experience in real-money gaming, turn-based games, tournament systems, or Plaid/PayPal integrations should not apply. Show More