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Principal Golang Engineer

Principal Golang Engineer

3 Months ago • 5 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Playrix is seeking a Principal Golang Engineer to develop and maintain high-load platform services. You'll be responsible for designing, building, and scaling microservices, working with SQL/NoSQL databases, and contributing to a strong developer experience. 5+ years of Golang development experience is required, with a focus on architecture, high-load applications, and testing.

Must have:

Golang development
Microservice architecture
SQL/NoSQL databases
Unit/Integration testing

Good to have:

High-load applications
Python REST services
AWS and Docker
Orchestrators (Nomad, K8s)

Perks:

Flexible schedule
Health insurance

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Job Details

Principal Golang Engineer

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 Principal Golang Engineer to strengthen our GameOps platform services team. Our services experience peak loads of up to 100K RPS.

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

Team: 9 Senior developers and a Tech Lead.

Tasks

Spliting the monolith involves decoupling critical functionalities from game backends into separate Golang services. Currently, we have over 10 such services.
Work with your team to organize all the necessary developer experience in Golang — microservice templates, SDK, etc.
Developing platform 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

Requirements

5+ years of experience in developing Golang services from scratch
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

Experience developing high-load applications
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)

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.

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