Golang Tech Lead

3 Months ago β€’ 3 Years + β€’ Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Golang Tech Lead at Playrix, you'll join the GameOps services team handling over 100k RPS. Responsibilities include leading product and technical initiatives, developing and architecting Golang services, ensuring high-quality code through testing, managing technical quality, and working with various technologies like AWS, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, and more. You'll be involved in defining strategies, prioritizing tasks, and planning for a high-load application environment. Experience with high-load applications, database design, and leading engineering teams is crucial.
Must have:
  • 3+ years Golang service development
  • 2+ years Tech Lead experience
  • High-load application experience
  • Architecture design expertise
  • Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases
  • Unit and integration testing
Good to have:
  • Python (FastAPI) experience
  • AWS & Docker proficiency
  • Kubernetes or Nomad experience
  • Frontend framework knowledge (React, Vue)
  • CI/CD experience (TeamCity, Jenkins)
Perks:
  • Flexible work schedule (remote)
  • Health insurance
  • Paid vacation and sick leave
  • Gym memberships reimbursement
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Company events and merch

Job Details

Golang Tech Lead

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

We are looking for a Golang Tech Lead  to strengthen our GameOps services team. Our services handle a load of over 100k RPS.

You will be tasked with developing current services and writing new ones on the Golang, as well as working on the architecture and solving issues of scaling, fault tolerance, and monitoring.


Tasks

  • Leading product and technical initiatives: gathering requirements, interacting with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams, developing solutions, decomposing and estimating tasks, and driving initiatives to completion
  • Developing service architectures in accordance with product requirements
  • Managing the technical quality of the product: defining strategy and vision, prioritizing tasks, and planning
  • Managing tools and technologies within the team

Our stack

Golang, AWS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, Kinesis, k8s,  Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in developing Golang services from scratch
  • 2+ years of experience in a similar role (Tech Lead/Team Lead/Engineering Manager)
  • Experience in developing high-load applications
  • Experience in architecture design: creating services, describing database schemas
  • Ensuring high-quality code development through unit and integration testing
  • Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases, ability to design database structures

Preferred


  • Experience in developing Python REST services for over a year, with a focus on working with asynchronous frameworks, particularly FastAPI
  • User-level skills in working with AWS and Docker

  • Skills in working with orchestrators (Nomad, K8s)

  • Experience with frontend frameworks (React, Vue)

  • 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 β€” 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.

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