Lead Node.js Engineer (Server)

22 Minutes ago • 7 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Lead Node.js Engineer will lead a team of 2-3 Senior Developers and 1 QA, focusing on efficient delivery, people management, and technical product quality. The role involves leading product and technical initiatives, managing a development team through hiring, onboarding, and performance evaluations, and handling team processes such as planning and daily meetings. The engineer will also develop server-side functionality for the company's games.
Must have:
  • Experience in a similar role (team lead/engineering manager) for 2+ years.
  • 7+ years of backend development experience, 3-4 of which were with Node.js.
  • Strong knowledge of JavaScript (ES6+).
  • Experience in designing and developing APIs.
  • Relevant experience in writing Unit and Integration tests.
Good to have:
  • Experience working with DynamoDB and other NoSQL databases.
  • Experience in Python development.
  • Experience working with Elasticsearch.
  • Skills in working with monitoring systems (Graphite, Zabbix).
Perks:
  • Flexible schedule, allowing work from anywhere in the world (except for certain regions).
  • Voluntary health insurance for employees and their children, reimbursement for psychologist sessions.
  • Fully paid vacation and sick leave, with potential for additional days off.
  • Reimbursement for gym memberships and fitness app subscriptions.
  • Payment for participation in specialized conferences and courses, internal conferences.
  • Discounts on English language courses and courses for other languages.
  • Regular offline events, corporate parties, and informal office parties.
  • Fun competitions, quizzes, hackathons, and online fitness challenges.
  • Merch store with internal currency for unique gifts.

Job Details

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, we take infrastructure seriously—handling 150+ million monthly active players requires a scalable, high-performance backend. Our server team ensures seamless game experiences, managing architecture design, implementation, and live operations in high-load environments with traffic spikes of 100K+ RPS.

We are looking for a Lead Node.js Engineer to lead a team of 2-3 Senior Developers and 1 QA, responsible for efficient delivery, people management, technical product quality (strategy, architecture), and driving key product and technical initiatives

Tasks

  • Managing a development team: hiring, onboarding, evaluation, and growth, 1:1;

  • Handling the team's routine processes (estimation, decomposition, planning, daily meetings, etc.);

  • Participating in improving team processes;

  • Developing server-side functionality for one of our flagship games;

  • Leading product and technical initiatives.

Our stack

NodeJS (ExpressJS), AWS, DynamoDB, Graphite, Git, Kibana.

Requirements

  • Experience in a similar role (team lead/engineering manager) for 2+ years;

  • 7+ years of backend development experience, 3-4 of which were with Node.js (ES6+);

  • Strong knowledge of JavaScript (ES6+);

  • Experience in designing and developing APIs;

  • Relevant experience in writing Unit and Integration tests.

Preferred

  • Experience working with DynamoDB and other NoSQL databases: Cassandra, Redis, MongoDB, etc;

  • Experience in Python development;

  • Experience working with Elasticsearch;

  • Skills in working with monitoring systems (Graphite, Zabbix).


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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About The Company

Our mission is to create memorable entertainment experiences for players around the world.

TAPBLAZE's vision is to become one of the world’s leading entertainment companies.

Our core values are:

We are ambitious.
We are disciplined.
We are ownership-minded.
We are results oriented.
We are extraordinary.

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