Playrix is in the global top 3 in terms of profit among mobile game developers. We have created the hit games Gardenscapes, Fishdom, Manor Matters, Homescapes, Wildscapes, and Township. They have been downloaded by more than two billion players and have a monthly audience of 130 million people.
We are looking for a Principal Golang Engineer to strengthen our GameOps platform services team. Our services experience peak loads of up to 100K RPS. Therefore, you will be tasked with developing current platform services and writing new ones in Golang, as well as working on the architecture and solving issues of scaling, fault tolerance, and monitoring.
Team: 7 Senior and Strong Middle developers and a Tech Lead.
Our stack: Golang, Python, FastAPI, SQL, AWS, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Graphite, Elasticsearch, Kibana.
This role requires relocation from Russia and Belarus to one of our offices or remote work from other countries (except Russia and Belarus).
Tasks:
1. Splitting the monolith involves decoupling critical functionalities from game backends into separate Golang services. Currently, we have over 10 such services.
2. Work with your team to organize all the necessary developer experience in Golang — microservice templates, SDK, etc.
3. Developing platform services for various gaming projects and tools for game management.
4. Participating in the design of service architecture.
5. Ensuring high quality through unit/integration tests.
6. Assisting in technical interviews and defining hiring standards for engineers on your team.
Requirements:
1. 3+ years of experience in developing Golang services from scratch.
2. Experience in developing Python REST services for over a year, with a focus on working with asynchronous frameworks, particularly FastAPI.
3. Experience in architecture development: creating services, describing database schemas.
4. Ensuring high-quality code development through unit and integration tests.
5. Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases, ability to design database structures.
6. Understanding of network operations at a basic level (TCP/IP, DNS).
Preferred:
1. Experience developing high-load applications.
2. User-level skills in working with AWS and Docker.
3. Skills in working with orchestrators (Nomad, K8s).
Our Perks:
1. Flexibility at work: We offer a flexible schedule, and our employees can work from anywhere in the world (except for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus). It doesn't matter to us where or how you do your work — we only evaluate the final results.
2. Caring for health and well-being: We provide voluntary health insurance for employees and their children, and reimburse online sessions with a psychologist.
3. We offer fully paid vacation days and sick leave. In certain circumstances, you can request additional days off.
4. We support leading a healthy lifestyle and reimburse the cost of gym memberships and fitness app subscriptions.
5. Professional development and education: We pay for participation in specialized conferences and courses and hold our own internal conferences.
6. We offer discounts on English language courses and courses for the languages of the countries in which the company operates.
7. Events and merch: We regularly hold offline events like team meetings, big corporate parties, and informal office parties.
8. We also regularly organize fun competitions, quizzes, hackathons, and online fitness challenges.
9. We have a merch store with an internal currency you can use to buy unique gifts. We give out this currency as a gift for significant dates, and you can earn more by participating in events and company activities.
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