Engineering Manager (Golang)

3 Months ago • 6-8 Years • Programming

Job Summary

Job Description

Lead a team of 7 engineers responsible for the development and maintenance of backend services for Playrix games. This role involves team management (1:1s, performance reviews, onboarding), ensuring efficient delivery of projects, and driving key product and technical initiatives. Responsibilities include service architecture design, collaboration with stakeholders, requirements gathering, and managing technical product quality. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of backend development experience (3+ years with Go), 2+ years in a similar leadership role, and experience with high-load projects. Expertise in designing services, database schemas, and ensuring code quality through testing is crucial.
Must have:
  • 6+ years backend development (3+ years Go)
  • 2+ years experience as Tech Lead/Engineering Manager
  • High-load project experience
  • Service architecture design expertise
  • Team Management & Delivery
  • Product and technical initiative leadership
Good to have:
  • AWS and Docker experience
  • Experience with orchestrators (Nomad, K8s)
  • CI/CD knowledge (TeamCity, Jenkins)
Perks:
  • Flexible work schedule (remote)
  • Health insurance
  • Paid vacation and sick leave
  • Gym memberships reimbursement
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Company events and merchandise

Job Details

Engineering Manager (Golang)

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 are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of 7 people, responsible for efficient delivery, technical product quality (strategy, architecture), and driving key product and technical initiatives at the department level.

Tasks

  • Team management of 7 people:
    • People management: 1:1s, development, evaluation and feedback, onboarding.
    • Delivery: responsible for the team’s effective delivery and leading production processes.
  • Managing technical product quality: strategy and vision, task prioritization, planning.
  • Leading product and technical initiatives: requirements gathering, collaboration with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams, solution design, decomposition and estimation, driving the initiative to completion.
  • Service architecture design according to product requirements.

Our stack

Golang, 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).

  • 2+ years of experience in a similar role: Tech Lead/Team Lead/Engineering Manager.

  • Experience in developing high-load projects.

  • Experience in architecture design: creating services, describing database schemas.

  • Ensuring high-quality code development through unit and integration testing.

Soft Skills

  • Product mindset – Focused on product and business development.

  • Ownership – Takes responsibility for results within their scope.

  • Communication – Strives for consensus in decision-making, demonstrates flexibility and diplomacy, and avoids conflicts.

  • Results-driven – Prioritizes important tasks and finds optimal solutions.

  • Systematic approach – Structures tasks effectively and finds efficient ways to solve them.

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.

Work Format

Remote or from one of the company’s offices.

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