Golang Tech Lead (GameOps)

6 Months ago • 6 Years + • Programming

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Golang Tech Lead (GameOps) at Playrix, you will drive the development of Go expertise within the team and strengthen the feature ownership approach. You'll work on high-load services, create game operations tools, and develop new features. Responsibilities include leading product and technical initiatives, managing technical quality, and managing tools and technologies. This role involves migrating services to Kubernetes, leading the integration of large-scale cross-game projects (matchmaking, player profiles, GDPR-compliant data deletion), and breaking down monolithic services. You'll collaborate with game developers and infrastructure teams to ensure Playrix's games run efficiently and smoothly.
Must have:
  • 6+ years backend development, 3+ years with Go
  • 2+ years experience as Tech Lead
  • High-load project experience
  • Architecture design experience
  • Unit and integration testing
Good to have:
  • Python REST services (FastAPI)
  • AWS, Docker, Kubernetes experience
  • CI/CD (TeamCity, Jenkins)
Perks:
  • Flexible schedule (work from anywhere)
  • Health insurance
  • Paid vacation and sick leave
  • Gym memberships reimbursement
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Company events and merch

Job Details

Golang Tech Lead (GameOps)

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

At Playrix, our games serve 150+ million players monthly, requiring robust, scalable backend solutions to handle massive traffic loads. GameOps plays a key role in this, developing critical backend services that power all Playrix games—from player data management (GDPR compliance) to real-time notifications for millions of users. Without these services, operating large-scale games wouldn’t be possible.

We’re looking for a strong Tech Lead who will drive the development of Go expertise within the team and strengthen the feature ownership approach. You’ll be working on high-load services, creating game operations tools, and developing new features from scratch. Our 5 Senior backend engineers work closely with game developers and infrastructure teams to design, implement, and refine backend services that scale across all Playrix games.

This role offers the opportunity to migrate services to Kubernetes, lead the integration of three large-scale cross-game projects (matchmaking, player profile, GDPR-compliant data deletion), and break monolithic services into independent, reusable backend solutions. You’ll have a direct impact on making Playrix's games run faster, smoother, and more efficiently

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

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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.

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