This role requires relocation from Russia or Belarus to one of our offices. We are also hiring remote specialists who have already relocated from Russia or Belarus.
About the company
Playrix is one of the most successful mobile game development companies in the world. In terms of mobile application revenue, we rank first in Europe and are in the top 3 worldwide. Our games have been installed 2.3 billion times (that's a third of the world's population!) and more than 30 million people around the world play them every day.
Team, about the role
Playrix games serve over 150 million players, which requires reliable and scalable server solutions capable of handling massive loads. The Cross-Game Server team develops universal backend services for Playrix games. We create critical solutions—ranging from services essential for any product (such as push notifications and GDPR-compliant user data processing) to game features like matchmaking, player profiles, clans, and anti-cheat systems. Developing universal services for all games enables faster rollout of new features and helps maintain a high level of quality in Playrix games.
We’re looking for a Senior Go Developer who will build and optimize high-load services and develop new features from scratch. Our Tech Lead and 8 backend engineers work closely with game developers and infrastructure teams to design, implement, and refine backend services that scale across all Playrix games.
Tasks
- Work with your team to organize all the necessary developer experience in Go—microservice templates, SDK, etc.
- Developing services for various gaming projects and tools for game management.
- Participating in the design of service architecture.
- Ensuring high quality through unit/integration tests.
- Assisting in technical interviews and defining hiring standards for engineers on your team.
Our stack
- Go, AWS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, Kinesis, K8s, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana.
Requirements
- 6+ years in backend development, including 3+ years with Go (designing and developing services from scratch).
- Experience developing high-load projects.
- Experience in architecture development: creating services, describing database schemas.
- Ensuring high-quality code development through unit and integration tests.
- Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases, ability to design database structures.
- Understanding of network operations at a basic level (TCP/IP, DNS).
Preferred
- User-level skills in working with AWS and Docker.
- Skills in working with orchestrators (Nomad, K8s).
- Understanding of CI/CD practices (TeamCity, Jenkins).
Our Perks
Flexibility at work.
- For most positions, we offer a flexible schedule, and employees can work from anywhere in the world (except for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus). You can do your work however and wherever you like—we only evaluate your results.
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. We give out this currency as a gift for significant dates, and you can earn more by participating in events and company activities.
