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 Backend Tech Lead for our server team.
They will be responsible for the development of current game mechanics and the creation of new features for all of Playrix's games.
You will face tasks ranging from developing architecture to implementing and operating services in a high-load environment — 75K RPS.
This requires experience in developing high-load services and working with DynamoDB, S3, and SQS.
Team: 8 NodeJS Middle+ and Senior developers.
Our stack: NodeJS, AWS, DynamoDB, Graphite, git, 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 Producing technical and product initiatives.
Managing the team and developing engineers' technical competencies.
Interacting with game development teams and forming requirements for game features.
Designing and programming the server side of games for high loads — 75K RPS.
Monitoring and ensuring technical reliability of game servers.
Designing and developing API for our games.
Programming automation scripts for game operations.
Requirements Experience managing a team of 3+ developers, mentoring and developing the team's technical competencies.
Experience leading technical and product initiatives (ES6+).
5+ years of experience in backend development, 3+ of which are on Node.JS (ES6+).
2+ years of experience designing the architecture of high-load services and applications in the cloud.
Proficient knowledge of JavaScript (ES6+).
Experience working with cloud technologies, with a preference for AWS.
Experience writing automated Unit, Integration tests.
Preferred Experience with DynamoDB and other NoSQL DBMS: Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB, etc.
Experience developing in Python.
Participation in open source projects.
Our Perks 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).
Caring for health and well-being: We provide voluntary health insurance for employees and their children, and reimburse online sessions with a psychologist.
We offer fully paid vacation days and sick leave.
In certain circumstances, you can request additional days off.
We support leading a healthy lifestyle and reimburse the cost of gym memberships and fitness app subscriptions.
Professional development and education: We pay for participation in specialized conferences and courses and hold our own internal conferences.
We offer discounts on English language courses and courses for the languages of the countries in which the company operates.
Events and merch: We regularly hold offline events like team meetings, big corporate parties, and informal office parties.
We also regularly organize fun competitions, quizzes, hackathons, and online fitness challenges.
We have a merch store with an internal currency you can use to buy unique gifts.
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