Senior Golang Developer

6 Months ago • 5 Years + • Programming

Job Summary

Job Description

Playrix seeks a Senior Golang Engineer to join its GameOps services team, handling over 100k RPS. Responsibilities involve developing and maintaining Golang services, contributing to architecture, addressing scaling and fault tolerance, and working with a team of senior developers and a tech lead. This role includes splitting a monolith by decoupling functionalities into separate Golang microservices (currently over 10), developing tools for game management, participating in service architecture design, ensuring high code quality through testing, and assisting with technical interviews.
Must have:
  • 5+ years Golang service development
  • Microservice architecture experience
  • High-quality code through unit/integration tests
  • SQL/NoSQL database experience
  • Basic network understanding (TCP/IP, DNS)
Good to have:
  • High-load application experience
  • Python REST service development (FastAPI)
  • AWS and Docker experience
  • Experience with orchestrators (Nomad, Kubernetes)
Perks:
  • Flexible schedule/remote work (excluding Russia & Belarus)
  • Health insurance & psychologist reimbursement
  • Paid vacation & sick leave
  • Gym memberships & fitness app reimbursements
  • Conference & course stipends
  • Language course discounts
  • Company events & merchandise

Job Details

Senior 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 Senior Golang Engineer 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.

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 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

Our stack

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

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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